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: 12:30 pm
Offered by Systems Innovation Network, explore an overview to what we call "systems awareness" and "ecosystems thinking" and how to shift our awareness and thinking from "ego-systems awareness" to "ecosystems awareness”.
Time: 1:00 pm
Offered by Collective Impact Forum, explore the 5 conditions of collective impact, centering equity practices, designing a common agenda, and governance structures and the backbone role. Cost associated. Eligible for support through Rotary Charities Learning Fund.
Time: 2:00 pm
Offered by Bolder Advocacy, learn how to how maximize your advocacy, the kinds of advocacy activities 501(c)(3)s can engage in, and when a communication is considered lobbying. Cost associated. Eligible for support through Rotary Charities Learning Fund.
Time: 2:00 pm
Offered by Bolder Advocacy, explore multiple capacity assessment tools that are designed to help groups become more effective by supporting their ability to carry out and sustain advocacy and community organizing efforts. Cost associated. Eligible for support through Rotary Charities Learning Fund.
Time: 1:00 pm
Offered by Ideo U, this five-week course will teach skills and techniques you need to foster creative collaboration and unleash the potential of a team. Cost associated. Eligible for support through the Rotary Charities Learning Fund.
Time: 1:00 pm
Offered by Acumen Academy, this 8-week course will explore how to map a complex system to gain clarity, identify specific points in the system where you can make a big impact, create leverage hypotheses to describe how you will aim to create systemic change, and develop a framework for learning and adapting over time as your system changes.
Time: 10:00 am
Offered by Nonprofit Network, this 3-part workshop will learn tools of effective advocacy and the importance of understanding the political process, including civics, budget process, power mapping, asset mapping, strategies and tactics, and messaging. Cost associated. Eligible for support through Rotary Charities Learning Fund.
