IAT 2020/21 Annual Report
The nonprofit Institute for Applied Tinkering – Brightworks’ parent organization – has just published its first-ever annual report. It tells the story of a remarkable period in our shared journey; a period when our community of intrepid explorers responded to great challenge with the power of shared vision and collective endeavor, and showed that even during such times there is still joy, and growth, and the careful tending of the seeds of our future selves, as individuals and as a community.
This report is also an important milestone in and of itself; it’s a bit of a sign of growing up as an organization. We don’t want to ever lose our youthful curiosity and sense of adventure, but we are maturing as an organization, and in ways that we hope will protect and support our ability to endeavor in this important work together long into the future.
One of the ways we are maturing as an organization is by being more intentional in understanding the impact we have, what enables us to have that impact, and how we resource and structure ourselves to be able to continue to have that impact well into the emerging future. We’ve tried our best to lay that out in the pages above.
We are committed to continuing this work of building the stable foundation from which we can jump, and play, and explore our world together, and I thank you so deeply for your companionship on this journey.