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: 9:00 am
Offered by TSNE, explore the feeling of "resonant leadership" and the role of emotional intelligence in an organization, as well as how to develop "resonant leadership" capability and emotional intelligence in others. Cost associated. Eligible for support through Rotary Charities Learning Fund.
Time: 1:00 pm
Offered by the Tamarack Institute, explore the beliefs and attitudes that advance collective action and shared responsibility, and explore ways that we can strengthen our mindset through facilitation, evaluation, understanding context, inquiry, and building trust. Cost associated. Eligible for support through Rotary Charities Learning Fund.
Time: 1:00 pm
Offered by the Dorothy A. Johnson Center, explore current trends and challenges affecting volunteerism in the U.S, initiatives and strategies to promote and sustain a culture of volunteerism, and tools and practices to streamline operations and effectively manage volunteers. Cost associated. Eligible for support through Rotary Charities Learning Fund.
Time: 10:00 am
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.
Time: 1:00 pm
Offered by Collective Impact Forum, this virtual workshop includes a half-day training on December 12 providing an overview of the basic elements of the collective impact approach, and a 90-minute session on December 13 that is a mix of small group peer discussion and more Q&A with workshop leads. Cost associated. Eligible for support through Rotary Charities Learning Fund.
Time: 1:00 pm
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.
Time: 1:00 pm
Offered by TSNE, review and reflect on a “Job Description of a Supervisor," identify your supervisory style, learn how to identify what individual staff need around various aspects of their jobs, and understand the importance of adapting your supervisory approach and communication style in support of staff success. Cost associated. Eligible for support through Rotary Charities Learning Fund.
Time: 1:00 pm
Offered 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.
Time: 1:00 pm
Offered by TSNE, understand the importance of soliciting feedback and learn approaches to building this into your supervisory practice, discover the barriers to receiving constructive feedback and ways to manage reactions which support your effectiveness as a supervisor, explore the conditions that make giving feedback valuable, and learn how to hold one-on-one meetings that strengthen communication, trust, and staff effectiveness. Cost associated. Eligible for support through Rotary Charities Learning Fund.
Time: 11:00 am
Offered by ZingTrain, learn how to recognize and better handle workplace conflict, gain techniques to engage effectively in a courageous conversation, and experience hands-on practice with these techniques. Cost associated. Eligible for support through Rotary Charities Learning Fund.
Time: 12:00 pm
Offered by the Tamarack Institute, this 7-part cohort will bring together a small cohort of changemakers who will learn together, experience tools, and resources, and develop new skills to bring back to your communities and collaboratives including coaching, peer learning and reflection. Deadline to apply: January 19. Cost associated. Eligible for support through Rotary Charities Learning Fund.
Time: 11:00 am
Offered by Ideo U, this 5-week cohort course will explore how environment encourages new mindsets and behaviors, reframing change to invite participation, co-creating change by involving those affected from the beginning, and sharing stories about early, small changes. Cost associated. Eligible for support through Rotary Charities Learning Fund.
Time: 1:00 pm
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.