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: 11:00 am
Offered by The Fito Network, gain an understanding of pre-facilitation planning techniques, experience multi-directional and engaging formats for participatory facilitation, and practice designing participatory processes yourself in real-time.
Time: 1:00 pm
Offered by Collective Impact Forum, explore key building blocks for equity-focused work and equity strategies, practices, and tools for integrating equity into collective impact initiatives. Cost associated. Eligible for support through Rotary Charities Learning Fund.
Time: 1:00 pm
Time: 10:30 am
Offered by the Center for Nonprofit Management, examine the concept of cultural intelligence and learn strategies for mitigating cultural bias and enhancing cultural intelligence. Cost associated. Eligible for support through Rotary Charities Learning Fund.
Time: 11:00 am
Offered by The Fito Network, hear insights from practitioners and enter dialogues around generating the conditions for shared equity and wellbeing in our networks and communities.
Time: 11:00 am
Offered by CoCreative, learn the importance of building mutual cultural understanding in connecting deeply with your stakeholders, reflect on how your identity, values, and beliefs impact how you show up in your professional life, and explore a performance framework to help us engage with others in new, powerful ways.


Offered by Rotary Charities, learn the basic principles of Liberating Structures and how they can be applied to create more inclusive and effective group interactions, experiment with several of the most-widely used Liberating Structures firsthand, and gain practical tools and strategies for implementing Liberating Structures in your work and a deeper understanding of how they can transform group dynamics.
Time: 12:30 pm
Offered by Compass Point, this 2-part series will explore the five Conflict Resolution styles and how they intersect with positional power and social privilege, how you want be your “best self” in conflict, and how to build on your abilities of listening, inquiry, and empathy as skills for working through conflict. Cost associated. Eligible for support through Rotary Charities Learning Fund.
Time: 10:00 am
Offered by the ABCD Institute at DePaul University, this 4-part course will explore how a community starts to work together to realize goals, the power of co-production, and what it takes to create a healthy community. Cost associated. Eligible for support through Rotary Charities Learning Fund.
Time: 1:00 pm
Offered by the Tamarack Institute, explore the strategies to design your Collective Impact initiative for maximum impact including tools, frameworks, and examples for how to build commitment and co-create a compelling, shared strategy for change that unites diverse partners to effectively navigate in uncertain times. Cost associated. Eligible for support through Rotary Charities Learning Fund.
Time: 1:00 pm
Offered by Collective Impact Forum, explore strategies to support centering equity practices within collective impact work, design a results-focused common agenda, learn about governance structures and the backbone role, and build a culture for collective impact. Cost associated. Eligible for support through Rotary Charities Learning Fund.
Time: 1:00 pm
Offered by the Tamarack Institute, explore how to build relationships and reduce barriers to engagement, create conditions to move from debate to dialogue, increase your knowledge of consensus-based and dialogue practices, and learn techniques to reduce polarization, build empathy between people with diverse perspectives, and increase the chances of healthy dialogue. Cost associated. Eligible for support through Rotary Charities Learning Fund.
Time: 1:00 pm
Offered by ZingTrain, learn how to recognize and better handle workplace conflict, gain techniques to engage effectively in a courageous conversation, and practice the skills needed to have a courageous conversation. Cost associated. Eligible for support through Rotary Charities Learning Fund.
Time: 10:00 am
Offered by the ABCD Institute at DePaul University, this 6-part course will explore how a community starts to work together to realize goals, the power of co-production, and what it takes to create a healthy community. Cost associated. Eligible for support through Rotary Charities Learning Fund.
Time: 7:00 am
Offered by CoCreative, this 4-part series will explore how to combine the best of leadership and collaboration to lead change more powerfully, lead more effectively through confusion and avoid conversations that run in circles, and set and work with others from a clear shared intent. Cost associated. Eligible for support through Rotary Charities Learning Fund.
Time: 10:00 am
Offered by the Center for Nonprofit Management, explore defining disability as part of a whole person, learn about disability history and culture, understand the importance of "Nothing about us without us" in the context of naming and eliminating ableism, and identify practical steps for removing barriers to access and inclusion. Cost associated. Eligible for support through Rotary Charities Learning Fund.
Time: 1:00 pm
Offered by Collective Impact Forum, explore data needs, activities, and strategies across different phases of a collective impact initiative, and how these data activities can support decision-making, learning, continuous improvement, and evaluation. Cost associated. Eligible for support through Rotary Charities Learning Fund.
Time: 1:00 pm
Offered by the Tamarack Institute, explore ideas, tools and approaches to effectively engage diverse community partners and intentionally build trusting relationships and collaborative impact. Cost associated. Eligible for support through Rotary Charities Learning Fund.
Time: 12:30 pm
Offered by Compass Point, this 2-day workshop will explore effective meeting habits, skills to plan a meeting, how to wield power to unlock everyone’s contributions, get the right voices in the room, and guide conversations toward meaningful goals. Cost associated. Eligible for support through Rotary Charities Learning Fund.