Trends

What Are You Seeing?

What trends are inspiring you? Let us know what you would like us to research or what you are seeing by e-mailing us..

Emerging Trends

The annual Report of the President and CEO scouts trends that effect Lutheran health and human service organizations.

• Called to Shape the Future - 2011 (PDF, 1.2mb)
• A Picture of Possiblities – 2010 (PDF, 183kb)
• Abundant Life Together – 2009 (PDF, 186kb)
• Called to Love and Serve Our Neighbors – 2008 (PDF, 125kb)
• Open Source: Open to the Future – 2007 (PDF, 72kb)

Clues to the Future

Every month LSA distributes Clues to the Future, a scan of innovations and new ideas, a collection of what's working in the nonprofit arena and beyond.

• Reinventing professional education for the future (January 2012)
• Improving our cognitive toolkit  (December 2011)
• Planning for the future and graceful exits (November 2011)
• Behavioral economics and controlling health care costs (October 2011)
• Serving our neighbors - preferences and needs of a wide range of people (September 2011)
• Complex issues require integrated action (August 2011)
• Choose impact over outcomes (July 2011)
• New ways of working (June 2011)
• Fictomercials (May 2011)
• Microvolunteering, crowdsourcing, virtual volunteering (April 2011)
• Moving the needle for collective impact (March 2011)
• What's your prediction of trends for 2011? (February 2011)
• Governance in the future (January 2011)
• Trends in the public conversation about the American religious landscape (December 2010)
• Collaborative consumption or what's mine is yours (November 2010)
• The future of philanthropy (October 2010)
• The broad sweep of innovations in technology (September 2010)
• An accent on the positive (August 2010)
• Dated basics can make a comeback with creative new twists (July 2010)
• Human technology interfaces are increasingly complex (June 2010)
• Blurred boundaries challenge old assumptions (May 2010)
• Looking forward by looking back (April 2010)
• Better ways to juggle for a better workplace (March 2010)
• Are nonprofit organizations out of date? (February 2010)
• Ten crucial consumer trends for 2010 (January 2010)
• Peer to peer lending (December 2009)
• The next generation of user-generated content (November 2009)
• The shadow economy (October 2009)
• Put yourself in the minds of the class of 2013 (September 2009)
• Longer term views of philanthropy are more hopeful (August 2009)
• Marketing to ethnically diverse consumers (July 2009)
• Hiring should be top of mind in lean times as well as good (June 2009)
• Bartering is back (May 2009)
• Incentives – or not (April 2009)
• The reason for The Blue Sweater (March 2009)
• A sampling of year-end reviews and year-ahead prognostications (February 2009)
• What is most important for the future? (January 2009)
• Take your clues from Governing.com (December 2008)
• What's in a name? (November 2008)
• A diorama of demographic shifts (October 2008)