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: 2:00 pm
Offered by Bolder Advocacy, gain an understanding of how to safely engage in nonpartisan advocacy during an election. Cost associated. Eligible for support through Rotary Charities Learning Fund.
Time: 11:00 am
Offered by the Tamarack Institute, this interactive 6 month learning journey will equip you with the tools and strategies to foster stronger, more connected communities, including exploring a whole community approach, asset mapping, developing your mapping plan, making connections, and implementing your action plan. Cost associated. Eligible for support through Rotary Charities Learning Fund.
Time: 2:00 pm
Offered by the Interaction Institute for Social Change, this 3-part series will explore what a vision could look like in your organization, how the current context factors into that work, and how to identify your personal and organizational contribution to the ecosystem. Cost associated. Eligible for support through Rotary Charities Learning Fund.
Time: 10:00 am
Offered by the Systems Studio, this one-day intensive introduces the foundational principles of systems change, including systems leadership, mapping, complexity, and leading transitions. 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 internal conditions (e.g. mind, body, spirit, heart) needed to build self-awareness to effectively facilitate racial justice conversation, practical skills for facilitating productive conversations and building shared understanding about race, racism, and racial justice, in both virtual and in-person environments, a deeper understanding of the development of racial identity, the system of racialization in the U.S., and one’s own story within this context, and practice addressing challenges and aspirations as a racial justice facilitator. Cost associated. Eligible for support through Rotary Charities Learning Fund.
Time: 2:00 pm
Offered by Bolder Advocacy, gain an understanding of what advocacy activities your 501(c)(3) can engage in, what communications count as lobbying, and how to maximize your non-lobbying advocacy. Cost associated. Eligible for support through Rotary Charities Learning Fund.
Time: 11:00 am
Offered by Ideo U, this 5 week self-paced, online cohort course will explore how to look at problems through different perspectives, develop actionable and innovative solutions, learn how to de-risk and experiment to build resilient strategies, and balance creative thinking and rigor to get to breakthrough ideas and sustainable solutions. Cost associated. Eligible for support through Rotary Charities Learning Fund.
