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: 10:00 am
Offered by The Fito Network, explore how to organize transformational efforts through connected experiments, accelerate social change through systems networks, embed scaling into change strategies to have deep rippling effects and rapidly shift culture, and set up support ecosystems to foster nurturing environments.
Time: 10:00 am
Offered by ONEPlace, learn about the roles and responsibilities of board members, how to foster a positive board culture, and simple tips and tricks to help your organization run effective and efficient board meetings.
Time: 10:00 am
Offered by TSNE, explore ways that adaptive communication and feedback contribute to supporting, developing, and managing successful employees and learn a model of performance management that focuses on adaptive communication and feedback strategies. Cost associated. Eligible for support through Rotary Charities Learning Fund.
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 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.
Time: 12:00 pm
Offered by Human Systems Dynamics, explore concepts and tools to help you deepen your preparedness for whatever is next for you, your team, organization, or community
Time: 11:00 am
Offered by ZingTrain, explore the correlation between self-management and organizational success and learn new tools and techniques to live and lead more effectively. Cost associated. Eligible for support through Rotary Charities Learning Fund.


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: 10:00 am
Offered by Acumen Academy, this 6-week course will explore the importance of an entrepreneurial mindset for nonprofit fundraising, different sources of nonprofit funding, the process of developing a budget, identifying potential donors and sharing your nonprofit’s impact with storytelling strategies.
Time: 10:00 am
Offered by Unity Effect, explore supportive conditions, good practices and methods which enable peer learning to work effectively in organizations, experience practical peer learning exercises, exchange with peers on how to build peer learning into your work, and share learnings about what not to do and worst practices for integrating peer learning into your organization.
Time: 10:00 am
Offered by the Center for Nonprofit Management, learn how to set priorities that truly matter, receive tips to better your time, and learn how to overcome negative behavioral practices that hinder individual performance. 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 Human Systems Dynamics Institute, this 2-part workshop will explore how to see and understand patterns, how to use stories to leverage complexity to inform future action, and create narrative to navigate your surprising, uncertain world. Cost associated. Eligible for support through Rotary Charities Learning Fund.
Time: 12:00 pm
Offered by LifeLabs Learning, learn how to create productive vulnerability, diagnose common trust blockers and identify solutions to fix them faster, and increase team learning behaviors to more effectively learn from mistakes.
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: 11:00 am
Offered by the Center for Creative Leadership, explore the research behind the growing importance of inclusion at work, how to identify inclusive and non-inclusive workplace characteristics, and learn a framework to help shift mindsets, behaviors, and practices towards more equitable and inclusive leadership.
Time: 8:00 am
Offered by Collective Mind, learn what a network is, what skills and approaches network managers need to be effective and impactful, and frameworks to assess and improve your network.
Time: 12:30 pm
Offered by the Chapman Foundation, explore behavioral tendencies, recognize the strengths and limitations of each tendency, identify primary tendencies of others, and recognize style flexing as a means to improve communication. 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 IdeoU, this 5 week course will explore how to identify the right type of data to collect to address your core problem, uncover opportunities for innovation by leveraging data you already have or creating new data, and discover valuable insights in your data that can be transformed into compelling stories and visualizations. Cost associated. Eligible for support through Rotary Charities Learning Fund.
Time: 2:00 pm
Offered by Ideo U, this 5-week cohort will explore how to clarify the problem you’re tackling to uncover more effective solutions, develop a shared understanding, and clearly define a purpose for the work. Cost associated. Eligible for support through Rotary Charities Learning Fund.
Time: 12:30 pm
Offered by CompassPoint, in this 4-part series you will learn the coaching mindset, build on your communication abilities through three key coaching skills, and learn how coaching interrupts dominating behavior and builds power with others. 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.
Time: 1:00 pm
Offered by Collective Mind, learn what a network is, what skills and approaches network managers need to be effective and impactful, and frameworks to assess and improve your network.