Transforming Limiting Beliefs: Creative Advocacy
In a world where forest areas continue to decline at an alarming rate, and ocean acidification threatens marine environments and...
Creative Action Institute
- Apr 1, 2021
- 3 min
Fresh from the Field: Advocating for a clean environment in Cameroon
Waste disposal, particularly plastic waste, is a significant problem across Cameroon: there are insufficient trashcans or collection...
creativeactionins
- Mar 20, 2021
- 1 min
Partner Update: Performing to protect biodiversity in Guatemala
A pandemic won’t slow our partners down!
creativeactionins
- Jan 28, 2021
- 2 min
Fresh from the Field: Using Poetry to raise awareness during a pandemic
Participants in our Creative Foundation course composed poetry to raise awareness about the lack of environmental education.
creativeactionins
- Sep 16, 2020
- 2 min
Fresh from the Field: New Possibilities Begin
We’re excited to see the changes that these environmental leaders catalyze in the towns and villages where they live and work.
creativeactionins
- Aug 5, 2020
- 2 min
#FreshfromtheField: Racheal catalyzes change in Uganda
Racheal has been inspired by Aunty Nala's texts to take action in her community
creativeactionins
- Jul 24, 2020
- 2 min
Fresh from the Field: Growing Leadership Skills Through Art and Creativity
Did you know that art and creativity can be used to develop leadership skills?
creativeactionins
- Jul 23, 2020
- 2 min
SCAMPERing with the Creative Collaboration Cohort
In Week 5 of our Creative Collaboration course, the participants analyzed environmental and social problems by using the SCAMPER method
creativeactionins
- Jul 2, 2020
- 2 min
#FreshfromtheField: Appreciative Inquiry in Peru
In our Creative Collaboration course, participants generated a positive vision of their present and future
creativeactionins
- Jun 24, 2020
- 2 min
Creative Collaboration Workshop - New Platform, Same Course
We sat down with Isabel Carrió, Creative Action Institute's Field Project Manager in Latin America, to learn more about our adapted program.
creativeactionins
- Jun 18, 2020
- 1 min
New and Adapted Programming
Here are some ways we've innovated and reinvented our programming during COVID-19.
creativeactionins
- Apr 24, 2020
- 1 min
Using Theater to Promote Reforestation in Ghana
Ghana loses approximately 65,000 hectares of forest (think just a little smaller than New York City and little bigger than Chicago) each...
creativeactionins
- Apr 22, 2020
- 1 min
Creative Advocacy to Support Ban on Single-Use Plastics and Styrofoam in Belize
Longtime partners came together for a clinic focused on reducing single-use plastics in Belize.
creativeactionins
- Feb 5, 2020
- 3 min
Clare's #ThursdayThoughts
Climbing mountains to meet our Peruvian partners
creativeactionins
- Nov 27, 2019
- 2 min
Saving the hummingbird
The grey-bellied comet (Taphrolesbia griseiventris) is a species of hummingbird that is endemic to a handful of areas within Peru and is in
creativeactionins
- Nov 1, 2019
- 3 min
Fresh from the Field: Arts help catalyze social change in Ghana
Art is a powerful tool, especially in social change.
creativeactionins
- Mar 25, 2019
- 3 min
Fresh from the Field: Launching a new cohort of Creative Environmental Leaders in Lima, Perú
Perú is not just biodiverse, but it is megadiverse, which means it is one of the handful of countries that is home to the majority of...
creativeactionins
- Feb 22, 2019
- 4 min
Here's how Creative Action Insistute is hitting the ground running in 2019!
How did you jump into the new year? Our Executive Director, Clare Dowd, shares how Creative Action Institute is hitting the ground...
creativeactionins
- Oct 6, 2018
- 4 min
Together We Stand: Creative Collaboration in Ghana
CAI works to build the creative capacity of social change makers to innovatively address the challenges of our time. At the core of our...
creativeactionins
- Jun 28, 2018
- 2 min
Fresh From the Field
Meet Aryeh Aryeh, pictured on the right, is Creative Action Institute's California-based Education and Training Director. She has been...
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