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| What We Do |
The Creative Change Through Imagination Initiative convenes
meetings and sessions with businesses and corporations,
community, education, government, and nonprofit organizations to
collaboratively create innovative and improvise positive change.
The first meeting was convened during the winter of 2005, when
an abundance of rain in California's southwest desert produced
one of nature's most spectacular events: the "Hundred Year
Bloom." Species of plants not seen for generations suddenly
emerged creating a new awareness of the beauty, sustainability,
and purpose of our deserts.
With the Hundred Year Bloom as a back-drop, a group of community college educators and business leaders convened to discuss another national treasure, the American Community College. Words such as community, passion, learning, connectedness, hope, opportunity, diversity and democracy were used to describe their commitment. Their frank and honest discussion produced a call for further dialogue regarding the future in the new millennium. This group became known as the "Bloom Group" as a metaphor for what they conceived during the two days in 2005: a re-blooming of the 100-year-old community college movement in America. Annually Creative Change Fellows (Bloomies) are invited to attend the Institute in Palm Springs, CA, based upon their contribution and service to their profession and communities. |
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