Creative CapitalA Personal and Civic Asset

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Creative Capital

Individuals and communities have the capacity to imagine and create new possibilities.

Creative Learning

Opportunities

Learning and Innovation

Skills

Possibility of a New and

Better Future

This capacity is an asset, or resource, for hope and change.

Community Responsibility

Individual Applied Effort

Everyone Benefits

Resource Development

Communities can grow creative capital through

… modeling

… teaching

… celebrating

… valuing

… setting high standards

… encouraging

… AND providing opportunities to learn and practice.

Developing Creative Capital

… agency, effort, curiosity, wonder, exploration and invention.

Individual

… provide opportunities

AND

notice, value and celebrate.

Community

Nurturing Youth Creative Capital

We care about our environment, society and school.

Joshua T.

Our children are aware, creative, and full of stories to share. They deserve a place to be seen and recognized.

Community

Families Support Creative Capital

Frequency of opportunity

Value placed

Connection to network of resources

Tools and resources in the

home

History of involvement

Expanding the Idea of Family

Our dreams sometimes require additional “family”

This is the role we, as community members, can all play --- encouraging, sharing, listening, modeling, teaching, valuing and celebrating!

Clear, Smooth Pathways Needed

When we listen , we learn about others’ interest, engagement and effort.

Far East Dallas 2007-2009

Then, relevant and meaningful opportunities can be created.

Summer Learning Opportunities

Big Thought partners with community members, like you, to teach, value and celebrate students’ creativity .

• 17 Elementary campuses, approximately 7,150 served

• 9 Middle School campuses, approximately 1800 served

• Additional camps with Choices Leadership Academy, Office of Cultural Affairs Centers, etc.

Summer 2011 Overview

Mutually Beneficial Investments

"I would like to bring art to improbable places, create projects so huge with the community that they are forced to ask themselves questions.“JR, Beaux Arts Magazine

Community Creative Capital

Individual Creative Capital

Better Workforce

It's absurd. We're bailing out every major bank to get financial capital flowing again. But we're squeezing [education systems,] the main sources of our human capital.

Yet, the future competitiveness and standard of living of America depend on our peoples' skills, their capacities to communicate and solve problems, and innovate -- not their ability to borrow money.

Robert Reich, former Secretary of LaborDecember 3, 2008

Better Economies

The Shadow Superpower (Foreign Policy, 10-28-11)

Forget China: the $10 trillion global black market is the world's fastest growing economy -- and its future.

Shadow or System D workers are described as…

inventive, self-starting, entrepreneurial merchants who are doing business on their own, without registering or being regulated by the bureaucracy and, for the most part, without paying taxes. …. This essentially translates as the ingenuity economy, the economy of improvisation and self-reliance, the do-it-yourself, or DIY, economy.

Better Environment for Living

Human Development Index (HDI) vs. GDP as a measure of nations.

HDI measurement takes into account what a country must do or produce to create

an environment in which people can develop their full potential and lead productive, creative lives in accord with their needs and interests.

GDP HDI

1. U.S. 1. Norway

2. China 2. Australia

3. Japan 3. New Zealand

4. Germany 4. U.S.

5. France 5. Ireland

6. U.K. 6. Liechtenstein

7. Italy 7. Netherlands

8. Brazil 8. Canada

9. Canada 9. Sweden

10. Russia 10. Germany

Creative Capital

Participation Sustained Engagement

Supportive Community

Achievement and Recognition

Creative CapitalJennifer Bransom

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Types of Families/Communities

Thriving Striving Surviving Disengaged

Adults have formal artslearning; Familieshave means to purchaseformal & informallearning for children

Families support creativelearning at homeand at no or low costcommunity options;barriers prevent moreparticipation

Children have little to noaccess to creative learning;Caregivers express littlevalue for creative learning

Families have ampleresources and supports;value other activitiesover creative learning

High CCHigh SC

High CCLow SC

Low CCLow SC

Low CCHigh CC

CC = Creative Capital; SC=Supporting Conditions