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Derby Museums, in partnership with National Arts Strategies (NAS) and with support from the University of Pennsylvania’s Center for Social Impact Strategy (CSIS), announced the creation of the UK Creative Community Fellows Program, a leadership initiative designed to create a high-powered network of leaders working where arts & culture meets social impact and community development.

This August 2019, twenty five arts and culture leaders convened at Galusha Hill Farm Lodge in Vermont for a week of learning, community building, and personal and professional development.

In July 2019, CSIS partnered with AFS International to offer an Impact House for 18 partner directors from around the globe.

This August 2019, twenty five arts and culture leaders convened at Galusha Hill Farm Lodge in Vermont for a week of learning, community building, and personal and professional development.

My colleague, recently returned from her Global Social Impact House (GSIH) fellowship in Nicaragua, beamed with a renewed sense of her work and purpose.

Brown recently published an article in the Stanford Social Innovation Review: "Cultivating, Not Just Calculating, Social Impact."  The article considers the “impact multiple of money” (IMM) as the new tool to evaluate and realize potential social impact through investments.

Congratulations to two CSIS alumni honored on Forbes’ 2019 30 Under 30 list in the Social Entrepreneurship category! Forbes chose Jeanny Yao and co-founder Miranda Wang for their pioneering work on sustainable methods of recycling plastic, and Shadrack Frimpong for founding a girls school in Tarkwa Breman, Ghana.

This January 2019, nineteen social innovators representing 9 countries convened at Cotton Tree Lodge in Belize for a week of learning, community building, and personal + professional development. Fellows were eligible to apply by completing the Center’s free Coursera in Social Impact Strategy.

Jeanny Yao and Miranda Wang’s company has broken down 10,000 plastic bags. Scientists, social entrepreneurs, friends since high school, and recent Forbes 30 Under 30 honorees, Yao and Wang founded BioCellection about three and a half years ago.

Mirae Kim, a 2013 participant in Dr. Frumkin’s summer Doctoral Fellows Program, was recently named a recipient of the award for Outstanding Article in Nonprofit and Volunteer Sector Quarterly (NVSQ) for her paper “The Relationship of Nonprofits’ Financial Health to Program Outcomes: Empirical Evidence from Nonprofit Arts Organizations.”