CORE Archives
  • Archives
    • A CORE History & Timeline
    • The Way we Were (Old "About Us") >
      • CORE's Vision, Values & Promise
      • Our Theory of Change
      • CORE Structure and Governance
    • Newsletters/Blogs >
      • At the Crossroads with you and "U"
      • On the Home Front
      • Year-End Update & Invitation to Contribute
    • Videos/Poems/Multimedia >
      • A 2014 National Presentation about CORE
      • A CORE Limerick
    • People of CORE's History
    • 2016 Exploratory Journey
    • Harvests from Past Programs >
      • Circle of Transformational Practice >
        • Gathering Harvest >
          • 2016 sessions >
            • Your Story is Your Brand
            • Racial Justice in Our Lives and Our Work
            • Open Circle
            • Building Trust in Our Work
            • Social Justice and Mindfulness
            • Courage in our work
            • Eye Opening Models
            • Creating Intelligent Teams
            • Shared Leadership
            • What is the next level you seek in your consulting practice?
          • 2015 sessions >
            • Conversations we are hungering to have
            • Gratitude as transformational practice
            • How do we respond to sudden change?
            • More Eye-opening Models and Frameworks >
              • Intuitive Organizational Diagnostic
              • Using Chalk Talk in consulting
            • What does collaboration feel like in consulting practice?
            • Cross Cultural Insights and Reflections - July 2015
            • The Art of Transformational Consulting - June 2015
            • Conversations around equity and justice - May 2015
            • Exploring Asset-Based Community Development - April 2015
            • Eye-opening models and frameworks - March 2015 >
              • Asset-Based Community Development
              • Center for World-Changing Organizations
              • Global Dexterity
              • Mutual Aid Networks
            • How can we become the change we want to see in the world? - February 2015
            • How do we focus on the most important things? Or, "What conversations are we yearning for?" Part II. - January 2015
          • 2014 sessions >
            • What conversations are we yearning for? - December 2014
            • Toward a deeper consulting community - November 2014
            • More eye-opening frameworks and models - October 2014 >
              • Articulating Purpose
              • Zentangle
              • Participatory Flowcharting
              • The Turtle Approach to Measurement
              • Intuitive Organizational Diagnosis
              • Problem Abatement Model
              • Hot Action Model
            • Power differentials and how they affect our work - September 2014
            • Be the change: personal qualities of effective consultants - August 2014
            • Toward a Deeper Consulting Community/Focused Conversation Techniques - July 2014
            • Testing
            • More Eye-Opening Models and Frameworks - June 2014
            • Engaging in super-sensitive conversations - from theory to practice - May 2014
            • Toward a Consulting Community - April 2014
            • Eye-opening models and frameworks - March 2014
            • Engaging in super-sensitive conversations - Feb. 2014
          • 2013 sessions
          • 2012 sessions
          • 2011 sessions
          • 2010 sessions
      • Art for Change 2014
      • Harvest from 2014 CORE Community Gathering with Playback Milwaukee
      • Funder Confabs >
        • October 21st 2014 Funder Confab Harvest
        • July 24th 2014 Funder Confab Harvest
        • Funder Confab Group Agreements
        • Funder Confab Action Team Charter
      • CORE Action Café >
        • CORE Action Café announcement version
      • Match for Change >
        • MfC Round 3/2014 Participant Matches
        • Match for Change Flow Chart
        • Becoming a CORE Connector >
          • Connector Application
        • Eligibility >
          • For Organizations
        • Matchmaking Definitions >
          • Capacity Building
          • Consultant
          • Project
          • "Matching" grant
          • Organization
          • Ready
        • Organization Application Process >
          • Application Preview - Organizations
        • Consultant Application Process
        • Matchmaking Confidentiality
        • Assisted Contracting
        • Reporting Process
        • Definitions
        • Round 1 Participants
        • Round 1 Discoveries
    • Resources >
      • Tips on Hiring a Consultant
      • The Field of Transformational Change by Becca Krantz
      • Related Efforts
    • Testimonials

CORE Founder's Circle
The Founders’ Circle is a special group of people and organizations who invested in the initial effort of this new approach to community change-making. 

Grant Abert
Ross Ament
Crystel Anders
Eric S. Brown, Madison Area Business Consultants
Catalign Consulting, LLC
Center for Community Stewardship
Anne Forbes
Marty Fox, Fox Financial Solutions
Boris Frank
Mary Girard, Dane County TimeBank
Elaine Glowacki

Engaging Minds, Mark Stevens
Barbara Hummel
Joan Karan 

Rebecca Krantz, Katz Family Foundation

Art & Sue Lloyd

in alphabetic order
click on highlighted text for links to people's websites


Darcy Luoma Coaching & Consulting, LLC
Bruce Moffat 
Leadership, Architecture & Design
Marianne Morton
Celeste Robins
Scholz Non Profit Law
Bert Stitt
Suzanne Swift

Mary Sykes
Wegner, CPAs
Ann Wingate
Wisconsin Community Fund/

                Forward Community Investments
Deb Wisniewski, Sharing Common Ground

Some community members who served in the past and helped make CORE happen:

People who served on the steering committee previously:
AB Orlik
Amy Mondloch
Bob Hudek
Bruce Moffat
​Cindy Fesemeyer
Crystel Anders
Dennis Johnson

Elaine Glowacki
Eloiza Altoro
Jeff Streier
Marty Fox
Nasra Wehelie

People who came to some steering committee meetings and/or contributed ideas:
Gladis Benavides
Boris Frank
Don Katz
Salli Martyniak
John Quinlan
Randy Stoecker
Mary Stelletello

Founders & Contributors
Irwin Katz, whose hard work, prudent savings and investments, and generosity created the Katz Family Foundation
See also Founders' Circle

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CORE  explores and cultivates core practices for social transformation
to heal ourselves, our communities, and our world
. www.corechange.us  ​