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 Nonprofit Quarterly, explore how to anticipate legislative action that affects grassroots priorities and equity-centered issues, learn about key advocacy pathways, and practical strategies for compliant, impactful advocacy. Cost associated. Eligible for support through Rotary Charities Learning Fund.
Time: 12:00 pm
Offered by the Collective Impact Forum, in the this virtual office hour experts will be answering questions and offering guidance and resources around how to navigate change within collaborative work. No cost associated.
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.
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: 1:00 pm
Offered by the Collective Impact Forum, explore how to better articulate and frame challenges within the collective impact in order to generate solutions and apply adaptive leadership practices and other tools to collective impact challenges. Cost associated. Eligible for support through Rotary Charities Learning Fund.
Time: 2:00 pm
Offered by the Interaction Institute for Social Change, this quarterly gathering is a space for connection, reflection and action where challenges are explored, progress is celebrated, and strategies to advance racial justice are shared. No cost associated.
Time: 1:00 pm
Offered by the Interaction Institute for Social Change, this 7-part series will explore facilitative leadership and building power equitably, how to encourage continuous improvement by focusing on process and relationships, creating the conditions for collaborative action, and learn how to make sense of complexity by involving others to understand the visible and invisible levels of systems. Cost associated. Eligible for support through Rotary Charities Learning Fund.
Time: 3:00 pm
Offered by the Interaction Institute for Social Change, explore the power of networks: what they are, how they work, and why you should care, different network modalities and roles to consider to better navigate these times, and core weaving skills and practices that can help us do and be more with less. Cost associated. Eligible for support through Rotary Charities Learning Fund.
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.