CREATIVE EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC
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Mission Statement
The Creative Education Foundation sparks transformation by providing the skill set, mindset, and tool set of deliberate creativity to individuals, organizations, and communities. Our programmatic focus areas Teach, Inspire, and Connect people who strive to find new solutions to old and emerging challenges to make the world a better place.
About This Cause
The Creative Education Foundation (CEF) was founded in 1954 by Alex Osborn, one of the original advertising Mad Men – the “O” in BBDO, one of the foremost, global marketing firms located in NYC. Alex believed that everyone is already creative and that everyone can work to become even more creative. That same year, Alex created the Creative Problem Solving Institute (CPSI), an intensive weeklong creativity conference. At this conference, attendees learn and practice the Creative Problem Solving (CPS) process, which codifies and mobilizes brainstorming into a complete end-to-end system that inspires people to generate many ideas and equips them with the tools to converge into actionable goals. Alex was joined by Sidney J. Parnes, PhD and together they created the Osborn Parnes model for Creative Problem Solving that has become the foundational theory for an array of creativity training models including Design Theory and DeBono's Six Hats. The Creative Education Foundation (CEF) continues to run the Creative Problem Solving Institute, a 5-day creativity conference, and the Journal of Creative Behavior, the oldest, longest-running, global creativity journal. In addition, we train young social entrepreneurs from around the world through the Sidney J. Parnes Global Fellowship program. We also bring creativity training to teachers. The world needs creativity training because the global marketplace is changing at breakneck speed, and we are facing critical social challenges. According to Forbes, in the future people can expect to change jobs 15-20 times and have as many as 7 careers. The US Department of Labor predicts that 65% of students will hold jobs that don’t even exist yet. In a 2014 IBM survey of 1,500 CEOs, they named creativity as the top skill needed to succeed in our rapidly changing world, ranking creativity higher than rigor, management discipline, integrity, and even vision. Creative Problem Solving provides the mind set, skill set, and tool set people need to be nimble, fluent, and truly innovative thinkers prepared for the challenges of contemporary society. Your support of our work will help us train more individuals, organizations, and communities in deliberate creativity so we can all work together to spur social change and innovation.