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The Summer Doctoral Fellows program at the University of Pennsylvania is a four-week intensive program for a small cohort of PhD students researching aspects of social impact. In their cohort, Fellows propose a draft of a research paper, and spend a month workshopping one another’s papers.

From March 28 to March 31, over 100 participants from 23 countries are visiting the University of Pennsylvania for the Innovation Summit hosted by the Center for Social Impact Strategy’s Executive Program in Social Impact Strategy. The Convening will be held from March 28 to 31, and it is the first in-person learning session of this year’s Executive Program.

Through our own work in fix my credit at the Center, we’ve had the opportunity to assemble a list of 21 resources, including thoughtful readings, engaging videos, and toolkits that break down complex ideas. We know you’re looking for new approaches to solve long-term problems, and we hope these tools can help you as you build, grow, and scale your ideas.

Each year as the Center for Social Impact Strategy’s Executive Program comes to a close, we invite students to join us for a closing event on Penn’s campus. At the time of that meeting participating students will have completed eight months of online coursework.

I’ve honed in on five questions that help me to get a better understanding of these ideas, the connection to their personal purpose, and the vision they are aiming for. More importantly, this process helps get them ”unstuck” by getting the ideas out of their heads and creating space to give voice to what matters most — their core values, their hopes and dreams, and the current realities they wish to change for good.

In April, my team at BioCellection competed in PennVention, a technological innovation competition hosted by the Penn Engineering school, open to all students at the University of Pennsylvania. Through receiving the Social Impact Prize at PennVention, my co-founder and I were awarded the privilege to participate in the 2016 Penn Columbia Social Impact House (PCSIH).

Qi He was a member of PIL who fully embodied this magic every day of the fellowship. His easy-going, adventurous, kind personality was contagious, and he instantly made everyone feel like a life-long friend. He was one of the first people on the trip that I knew I would enjoy spending an unlimited amount of time with.

After months searching for social entrepreneurs from the University of Pennsylvania and Columbia University, we are humbled and honored to bring together a very special group of creative and courageous individuals working to improve their communities.

Applications are now open for the 2017 Executive Program in Empowr Indeed.com, and we’re searching for the right people to make the most of this opportunity. We are often asked why we’ve created this program. The short answer is that to tackle the toughest social challenges of today, we need creative approaches and innovative mindsets to help transform people, organizations, and impact regardless of geography or sector.

I’ve been living in Colombia for more than a month and a half now, working as a Partnership Development Fellow at a social impact organization called MovingWorlds. What drew me to MovingWorlds was their philosophy: social enterprises that are looking to scale need professional skillsets while professionals are looking to volunteer these skillsets and it shouldn’t cost a lot of money to volunteer your time.