Our learning experiences will help you build collaborative capacity and make greater impact.
Build your capacity to work better together to address our region’s complex problems and create community assets for all. Learn to use systems practice, a process to understand the system you’re working in and identify leverage points for change, and explore a suite of skills and mindsets to help you create the conditions for meaningful collaboration. Filter the list of upcoming learning experiences by the impact areas below, find the path that is right for you and take the next step in strengthening your organization, network and community.
Ready to learn? Let us help! The Learning Fund provides financial support to help local changemakers cover tuition and conference fees for virtual learning experiences offered from partners across the globe.
Upcoming Learning Experiences
Time: 1:00 pm
Offered by the Tamarack Institute, gain an understanding of the foundations and principles of ABCD, including new and improved processes, and how to center community in your programs and activities. This workshop is an introductory session for those who are new to ABCD or want a refresher as ABCD has changed a lot over the past 10 years. Cost associated. Eligible for support through Rotary Charities Learning Fund.
Time: 1:00 pm
Offered by the Collective Impact Forum, this workshop will introduce a framework for concretely thinking about the different components and strategies for systems change from FSG’s publication: The Water of Systems Change and support participants in assessing system change opportunities within their own work. Cost associated. Eligible for support through Rotary Charities Learning Fund.
Time: 1:00 pm
Offered by the Tamarack Institute, gain an understanding of sensemaking - a collaborative process that helps groups interpret information and identify patterns to drive action - to identify patterns, connect diverse perspectives, and transform insights into actionable solutions. Cost associated. Eligible for support through Rotary Charities Learning Fund.
Time: 1:00 pm
Offered by the Collective Impact Forum, learn how to shift from “power over” to “power with”, cultivate trust and address power imbalances, and engage those currently in power to create a horizontal power shift. Cost associated. Eligible for support through Rotary Charities Learning Fund.
Time: 1:00 pm
Offered by Stanford Social Innovation Review, this 2-part workshop will provide a practical, startup-inspired framework for launch impactful initiatives including countering the overwhelm in cross-sector collaboration and designing your minimum viable benefit process. Cost associated. Eligible for support through Rotary Charities Learning Fund.
Time: 1:00 pm
Offered by the Collective Impact Forum, learn tools and resources that support the mindsets and skills of successful backbones, and identify and problem solve common challenges and patterns that impede the success of your role and your coalitions. Cost associated. Eligible for support through Rotary Charities Learning Fund.
Time: 1:00 pm
Offered by the Interaction Institute for Social Change, in this 7-part series you will develop practical collaborative skills and tools for tapping our individual and collective creativity and experience as social change agent. Cost associated. Eligible for support through Rotary Charities Learning Fund.
Time: 2:00 pm
Offered by CoCreative, in this 3-part series you will learn how to co-create at the highest levels of stakeholder engagement, advance the four agendas of collaborative innovation: aligning, connecting, learning, and making, align diverse interests around a powerful shared intent, and prototype powerful ideas and testing them in the real world. Cost associated. Eligible for support through Rotary Charities Learning Fund.
Time: 1:00 pm
Offered by the Interaction Institute for Social Change, this 5-part series will explore the foundations of systemic racism, the power of storytelling, how to prepare as a facilitator, facilitation fundamentals and will include coaching and practice. Cost associated. Eligible for support through Rotary Charities Learning Fund.
