Our learning experiences will help you build collaborative capacity and make greater impact.

Offered by Compass Point, this 2-part series will explore five conflict resolution styles and how they intersect with positional power and social privilege, identify how you want be your “best self” in conflict, 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.

Offered by Evaluation Cafe through Western Michigan University, explore how to approach communicating about data while carefully considering how audiences receive written words and visual presentations to create strategies for equitable communications. No cost associated. 

Offered by NMC Extended Ed, learn about the native culture with teaching, philosophy and stories, and discover cultural changes that have evolved over time. Cost associated. Eligible for support through Rotary Charities Learning Fund.

Offered by Volunteer Fairfax, explore ways that volunteer managers can discover, face and fight hidden biases in your volunteer program’s practices, procedures and policies. No cost associated.

Offered by the ABCD Institute at DePaul University, this 6-part course will introduce the core principles and applications of Asset-Based Community Development (ABCD) in the context of local communities with presentations and discussions focused on current conversations about equity and social justice to enable participants to think deeper about responses to these challenges. Cost associated. Eligible for support through Rotary Charities Learning Fund.

Offered by Title Track, this 5-week experience will support your quest to join the movement for racial justice and will explore themes that include race, racism, identity, solidarity, accountability, collective liberation, cultural healing, and antiracism practices. This cohort is appropriate for white identifying people who have had little to no prior antiracism or anti-oppression training. Apply by September 28. Cost associated. Eligible for support through Rotary Charities Learning Fund.

Offered by Evaluation Cafe through Western Michigan University, learn about a resident-led participatory asset mapping initiative in Milwaukee focused on uncovering community strengths, resources, and priorities to enhance neighborhood safety, and learn techniques for gathering qualitative, community-driven data on existing assets while revealing gaps needing investment. No cost associated.

Offered by the Interaction Institute for Social Change, this 3-part series will explore how to articulate a vision for what racial justice could look like in your organization or network, understand how to factor the current context into your work for racial justice and make a case for the changes to your strategies and approach that may be needed, and identify your unique personal and organizational contributions to the wider racial justice ecosystem. Cost associated. Eligible for support through Rotary Charites Learning Fund.

Offered by the Tamarack Institute, learn how to craft your collaboration's impact story building on four key components: people, process, resources, and impact. Cost associated. Eligible for support through Rotary Charities Learning Fund.

Offered by Human Systems Dynamic Institute, the 2-part series will explore what patterns we desire and what constraints keep us stuck, models and methods can inform action to shift economic patterns toward wellbeing, and how to create a future where everyone can thrive. Cost associated. Eligible for support through Rotary Charities Learning Fund.

Offered by the Collective Impact Forum, learn foundational concepts and practices around community engagement including tools for planning community engagement to be more purposeful, equitable, transparent, and strategic. Cost associated. Eligible for support through Rotary Charities Learning Fund.

This 2-day in-person training (in Washington DC) will use powerful techniques from the Liberating Structures methodology to quickly develop group facilitation and meeting design skills designed around hearing from all voices and breaking down typical organizational constraints to spur true innovation. Cost associated. Eligible for support through Rotary Charities Learning Fund (registration only, no travel).

Offered by the School of Systems Change, this 5-part series will explore why monitoring, evaluation, and learning (MEL) matters, harnessing an understanding our contribution to systems change, how to take a participatory approach, and creating processes for MEL. Participants can attend all sessions or sign up for individual sessions. Cost associated. Eligible for support through Rotary Charities Learning Fund.

Offered by Volunteer Fairfax, learn how to define opportunities and  welcome and support people with disabilities to make volunteering a meaningful and fulfilling experience, including addressing the responsibilities of host organizations, how to make reasonable accommodations, and how you can be a most effective host and supervisor. No cost associated.

Offered by NMC Extended Ed, in this 2-part workshop you will be introduced to the design thinking process, practice the Empathize, Define, Ideate, Prototype, and Test phases of design thinking, and leave the series with insights into how to understand stakeholder needs, brainstorm a solution, and develop a prototype to test your new concept. Cost associated. Eligible for support through Rotary Charities Learning Fund.

Offered by the Center for Nonprofit Management, explore the difference between language-driven and culture-driven approaches, how to define cultural expectations of a target audience, and how to establish key pillars to drive a successful communication strategy. Cost associated. Eligible for support through Rotary Charities Learning Fund.