Our alternative learning opportunities—both in person and online—equip those who seek to make a social impact through the application of practical research and our community of educational partners and mentors.
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Sports and entertainment industries offer powerful tools for bringing communities together and creating positive change. This panel features industry leaders working to create social impact at varying scales and from unique vantage points, including corporate social responsibility, marketing, technology, finance, and arts and culture. Through an interactive panel discussion, we will explore innovative approaches to creating impact through sports and entertainment and important considerations for building relationships with athletes, celebrities, and funders. Participants will walk away from this online event with new ideas about the possibilities and potential of sports and entertainment as forces for good.
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Our online presence is often the first way people learn about our organizations, ventures, or even ourselves as individuals. For mission-driven organizations and ventures, aligning digital outreach with social impact goals and reaching key stakeholder audiences can feel challenging. In this workshop, participants will learn how to conduct a Digital Media Audit. This tool facilitates a systematic, holistic examination of an organization’s online presence, with the goal of assessing the relationship between digital practices and mission. Participants will have the opportunity to audit a sampling of their own digital practices, as well as the digital practices of their stakeholders. They will leave the session with a Digital Media Audit worksheet to continue their analysis beyond the workshop and facilitate strategic communications plans with their team.
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Over the last year, people all around the world have responded to the pressures of the pandemic by carving out space for novelty in their careers, communities, and homes. How do we communicate these changes to others? This workshop will address how we communicate the people, values, and lessons that matter to us most, whether at work, or in other dimensions of our lives.
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This workshop will present the latest research on self-compassion, as well as reference a series of related behavioral change approaches that build off self-monitoring, self-assessment, and self-kindness principles. Attendees will leave this workshop with a preliminary understanding of the potential impact and limitations of self-compassion focused interventions, a series of tangible exercises that can be applied to either one’s self or teams, and a greater sense of confidence in implementing these practices in our day-to-day lives.
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Faced with increasingly complex problems, teams today rely on connection and collaboration to find acceptable solutions. Effective facilitation has become a necessary skill and practice toward this end. Drawing on a decade of experience, CSIS facilitators Anna Dausman and Kaveh Sadeghian present some of their own beliefs and practices around facilitation and convening.
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In this workshop, we ask participants to conduct a “wellness audit” and set an intention for routines and priorities in the days ahead. The framework we share is for anyone with questions about what life will look like as pandemic restrictions are lifted, as well as for anyone going through a life transition more broadly.
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Join us for the 2021 Racial Equity & Philanthropy Panel, organized by the Nonprofit Leadership Master’s Program and CSIS. We hope this conversation leads to greater insights on the role of philanthropy in furthering racial justice.
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Tune in to our recent conversation examining how nonprofits and social impact organizations can creatively mobilize volunteers during COVID-19.
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Listen back on CSIS’ and CCS’ final panel on the full, changing landscape of philanthropy.
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We partnered with Cafe Momentum to host a 90-minute workshop on how organizations might best respond to the competing needs of their communities, funders, and teams in this turbulent time.
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As a community, we took time to acknowledge and respond to our new reality, do a wellness audit, and set reasonable goals for the immediate future.
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By Mandisa Thomas
