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: 9:00 am
Offered by the Fito Network in collaboration with Illuminate, hear from others about how equity and system change have shaped their work and networks, practice deep listening, not just to understand, but to be changed, and explore how storytelling can become a collective and transformative practice, not just an individual act. No cost associated; donations accepted.
Time: 10:00 am
Offered by the Fito Network in collaboration with Illuminate, hear from others about how equity and system change have shaped their work and networks, practice deep listening, not just to understand, but to be changed, and explore how storytelling can become a collective and transformative practice, not just an individual act. No cost associated; donations accepted.
Time: 10:00 am
Offered by The Systems Studio, explore the mindset of a systems practitioner and reflect on your current approach to change, learn the purpose of systems mapping, types of maps, and when to use them, and gain hands-on experience using a mapping tool to analyze and address real-world challenges. Cost associated. Eligible for support through Rotary Charities Learning Fund.
Time: 2:00 pm
Offered by Bolder Advocacy, learn the different roles of 501(c)(3)s, 501(c)(4)s, unions, and political organizations, federal tax rules affecting how these organizations can work together, the legal separations necessary between affiliated organizations, such as funding and fundraising constraints, and permissible joint activities of different types of nonprofits, including election-year activities. Cost associated. Eligible for support through Rotary Charities Learning Fund.
Time: 10:00 am
Offered by the Fito Network in collaboration with Illuminate, hear from others about how equity and system change have shaped their work and networks, practice deep listening, not just to understand, but to be changed, and explore how storytelling can become a collective and transformative practice, not just an individual act. No cost associated; donations accepted.
Time: 10:00 am
Offered by the School of System Change, this 5-part series will explore how stories shaped the worlds we live into, how stories can help us develop situational awareness and take wise action, co-creating stories as living artifacts, and how narratives can interrupt, shift, and shape cultural transformation. Register by September 16. Cost associated. Eligible for support through Rotary Charities Learning Fund.
Time: 1:00 pm
Offered by the Collective Impact Forum, the first session in the 4-part Essentials for Collective Impact Series will explore the 5 Conditions of collective impact and why they are important, strategies to support centering equity practices within collective impact work, designing a results-focused common agenda, and discussion of governance structures and the backbone role. 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 Tamarack Institute, this 2-part workshop will explore the mindset needed to create a successful Collective Impact Initiative that's intentionally designed to drive systems change and how to incorporate programmatic and systems change strategies into your Collective Impact implementation plans. Cost associated. Eligible for support through Rotary Charities Learning Fund.
Time: 10:00 am
Offered by the School of System Change, this 3-part series will explore four different systemic worldviews and why they are important to systems change work, gain an understanding in systemic capabilities and practices to help you clarify the role you play in change, and how to take a multi-method approach in your unique change-making work. Register by September 22. Cost associated. Eligible for support through Rotary Charities Learning Fund.
Time: 10:00 am
Offered by the School of System Change, this 3-part series will explore the roots of systems change practice through understanding systemic worldviews and mental models, how to clarify the role you play in change, and tools and frameworks to use in your unique changemaking work. Enroll by September 22. Cost associated. eligible for support through Rotary Charities Learning Fund.
Time: 6:15 am
Offered by Circle Generation, this 8-week series will explore useful tools and frameworks to amplify engagement while collectively exploring ways to apply their learnings in their networks, teams, organizations, and with other practitioners and will be broken into 3 modules: Network Mindset & Emergence, Participant Engagement, and Network Coordination. 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.
Time: 1:00 pm
Offered by Ideo U, this 5-week, self-paced cohort course will explore techniques for mapping complex systems and identifying the root causes, establish a shared view of the system, and reframe problems from different perspectives to uncover new solutions. Cost associated. Eligible for support through Rotary Charities Learning Fund.
Time: 2:00 pm
Offered by Bolder Advocacy and the Alliance for Justice, learn how federal tax law permits lobbying for charities and how lobbying is defined, one easy step most charities can take to maximize the amount they’re allowed to spend on lobbying, yearly lobbying limits for charities, tips for taking advantage of the narrow definitions of lobbying – which will help charities make the most of their lobbying limit, and how to apply these rules to ballot measure activities. Cost associated. Eligible for support through Rotary Charities Learning Fund.
Time: 1:00 pm
Offered by the Collective Impact Forum, the second session in the 4-part Essentials for Collective Impact Series 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: 5:00 pm
Offered by the School of Systems Change, this 5-week course will explore group dynamics and energies, power, process design, leadership and understanding your self as an instrument for change. Deadline to apply is October 2. The course starts on October 20. 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 how to identify the "who, what, why, and how" of your racial justice work and articulate what racial justice could look like for your organization or network, gain an understanding of collaborative planning principles using a framework for developing a racial justice action plan, and practice communicating to stakeholders about the importance of your racial justice change process. Cost associated. Eligible for support through Rotary Charities Learning Fund.
Time: 1:00 pm
Offered by the Interactive Institute for Social Change, this 7-part series will explore key practices that make it easier for principled, self-empowered collaborators to communicate, decide, and act together including designing and facilitating meetings, discovering shared meaning, designing shared visions, and building collaborative change. Cost associated. Eligible for support through Rotary Charities Learning Fund.
Time: 1:00 pm
Offered by the Tamarack Institute, gain an understanding the importance of community and power in place, build the knowledge and competence to think about policy change, and build a foundation and next steps for change. Cost associated. Eligible for support through Rotary Charities Learning Fund.
Time: 1:00 pm
Offered by the Collective Impact Forum, the third session in the 4-part Essentials for Collective Impact Series will explore building trust and strengthening relationships across participations, keeping partners engaged and aligned toward a common agenda, raising broader awareness and visibility of the initiative, and shifting narratives that hold challenges in place. Cost associated. Eligible for support through Rotary Charities Learning Fund.
Time: 4:00 pm
Offered by the School of System Change, this 5-part series will explore introductory knowledge and application of tools and frameworks from across the systems change field and orientate yourself to what it means to integrate systemic ways of working and collaborating. Course starts on November 4. Deadline to apply is October 16. Cost associated. Eligible for support through Rotary Charities Learning Fund.
Time: 1:00 pm
Offered by the Collective Impact Forum, the fourth session in the 4-part Essentials for Collective Impact Series will practice creating an Actor Map and an Ecocycle Map for your initiative, learn about additional collaborative engagement and planning tools, and discuss how you might apply these tools in your own work. Cost associated. Eligible for support through Rotary Charities Learning Fund.
Time: 12:30 pm
Offered by the Tamarack Institute, the third session of this 4-part workshop will explore the distinctions between sex, gender, and sexuality, learn how colonization has shaped narratives around queerness, examine real-world examples of trans-inclusive policies, discuss pronoun awareness, and learn tools for advocacy, language, and community support, This series can be attended as a whole or a la carte. 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.
Time: 1:00 pm
Offered by Ideo U, this 5-week, self-paced cohort course will explore techniques for mapping complex systems and identifying the root causes, establish a shared view of the system, and reframe problems from different perspectives to uncover new solutions. Cost associated. Eligible for support through Rotary Charities Learning Fund.
Time: 2:00 pm
Offered by Bolder Advocacy and the Alliance for Justice, learn how federal tax law permits lobbying for charities and how lobbying is defined, one easy step most charities can take to maximize the amount they’re allowed to spend on lobbying, yearly lobbying limits for charities, tips for taking advantage of the narrow definitions of lobbying – which will help charities make the most of their lobbying limit, and how to apply these rules to ballot measure activities. Cost associated. Eligible for support through Rotary Charities Learning Fund.
Time: 2:00 pm
Offered by Bolder Advocacy, learn how to track your lobbying time and expenses so that your 501(c)(3) organization stays within its lobbying limits, how a 501(c)(3) reports its lobbying to the IRS, such as on the Form 990 or Form 990-EZ, how tracking and reporting varies depending on whether a charity measures its lobbying under the insubstantial part test or the 501(h) expenditure test, and how state and local law may require additional tracking and reporting. 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: 2:00 pm
Offered by Bolder Advocacy, learn the different roles of 501(c)(3)s, 501(c)(4)s, unions, and political organizations, federal tax rules affecting how these organizations can work together, the legal separations necessary between affiliated organizations, such as funding and fundraising constraints, and permissible joint activities of different types of nonprofits, including election-year activities. Cost associated. Eligible for support through Rotary Charities Learning Fund.