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 DePaul University's ABCD Institute, this interactive Story Session shares both mindful and strengths-based approaches that can be adopted at neighborhood, local, national, and international levels, as well as a focus on how ABCD relationships and practices evolving. No cost associated.
Time: 12:00 pm
Offered by the Interaction Institute of Social Change, this 2-part, 9 session workshop (4 sessions in part 1, 5 sessions in part 2) will equip you with frameworks and tools to design and lead collaborative change processes and gain skills for modeling racial justice and racial equity tools and practices in your organization. Cost associated. Eligible for support through Rotary Charities Learning Fund.
Time: 9:00 am
Offered by the Collective Impact Forum, this 3-day summit will inspire and provide practical advice for how to engage in community collaborations that center equity and belonging in collective impact work. Cost associated. Eligible for support through Rotary Charities Learning Fund.
Time: 9:00 am
Offered by NMC Extended Ed, in this 2-part series you will learn about the Anishinabek 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.
Time: 12:00 pm
Offered by the Tamarack Institute, join in a conversation with a group of inspiring youth leaders from our Communities Building Youth Futures movement to explore what belonging looks like from their perspectives, uncover the conditions that are needed to build authentic relationships and a sense of connectedness between youth and their community, and share lessons learned on how communities can foster belonging among youth.
Time: 1:00 pm
Offered by the Interaction Institute for Social Change, this 7-part workshop will explore ways to develop practical collaborative skills and tools for tapping our individual and collective creativity and experience as social change agents. Cost associated. Eligible for support through Rotary Charities Learning Fund.
Time: 12:00 pm
Offered by Human Systems Dynamics Institute, this 4-part series will explore four rules for creating hope in times of turbulence and uncertainty: Honor stories, open options for action, play with patterns, and engage in inquiry. Each session will focus on one of the rules. 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 series will introduce the core principles and applications of Asset Based Community Development (ABCD) in the context of local communities and will occur in light of current conversations about equity and social justice that will enable participants to think deeper about responses to these challenges. Cost associated. Eligible for support through Rotary Charities Learning Fund.
