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Learning Experiences

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


Dynamic Teaming and Managing Group Conflict
Equity & Inclusion, Adaptive Leadership & Collaboration - Virtual Learning,

Offered by the Center for Nonprofit Management, explore your individual personal style in addressing conflict, learn how to anticipate and avoid predictable pitfalls of group process especially in difficult conversations, and understand emerging and time-tested best practices for teaming and group facilitation. Cost associated. Eligible for support through Rotary Charities Learning Fund.

Patterns of Racism and Bias: Shift Patterns of Othering to Patterns of Inclusion
Equity & Inclusion, Adaptive Leadership & Collaboration - Virtual Learning,

Offered by Human Systems Dynamics Institute, understand racism as a pattern to be shifted, rather than a problem to be solved, experience the power of shared identity as it influences all your interactions, and engage with others in creative, generative, and productive action. Cost associated. Eligible for support through Rotary Charities Learning Fund.

Human-Centered Systems Thinking
Systems Change, Equity & Inclusion, Adaptive Leadership & Collaboration - Virtual Learning,

Offered by Ideo U, this 5-week 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.
 

Resources for change

Acumen Systems Practice Course

Learn to use a systems thinking approach to move from "impossible" to impact.

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Technical Capacity Building

 Check out other local nonprofit and business programming at Northwestern Michigan College's Extended Education Department.

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MI Capacity Building Centers

Michigan’s Capacity Building Center (CBC) Network consists of eleven organizations dedicated to learning, collaborating and providing services to nearly 44,000 nonprofits in Michigan. Check out our shared calendar for virtual learning experiences from CBC partners.

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Johnson Center for Philanthropy

Learning experiences & events

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