CSIS 5 Year Summit

2014-2019 Graduates of the CSIS Executive Program in Social Impact Strategy, CSIS Impact Houses, Penn Impact Lab, Master’s in Nonprofit Leadership, NAS Creative Community Fellows, and NAS Executive Program in Arts & Culture Strategy are all invited alumni. Pending space, on October 15 we will also welcome newcomers who have been nominated by alumni of the above programs. While we are not advertising publicly for this event, we will also consider including unaffiliated newcomers if they demonstrate commitment to social impact and participating constructively in this community.

This program is $895 for CSIS alumni and referrals and $1,250 for new invited guests. We do also have a number of financial aid packages available. Your registration includes all programming, housing, farm-to-table meals, and materials while on-site, from lunch on Monday, December 2nd through lunch on Wednesday, December 4th.

The agenda will include sessions led by Peter Frumkin, Ariel Schwartz, and Kaveh Sadeghian. We are finalizing the participation of other University of Pennsylvania faculty in the coming weeks. You’ll move through the summit in a small group, and we’ll curate several peer-learning workshops. The summit will also include a visit to a local winery.

The registration cost is based on the estimated costs to house and feed attendees and produce the event. We’ve offered it to alumni at just above the hard costs required to produce it. The alumni price does not cover instruction or staff time, which we may be able to partially cover by offering a higher price to non-alumni.

For our 5-year anniversary, this Alumni Summit takes some of our past educational experiences into a new setting and form, which we are calling a CSIS Summit. This event combines our residential program with our on-campus alumni summits.

Our traditional Executive Program summits are designed to strengthen cohort connections, acknowledge work accomplished that year / synthesized what we learned, and introduced some new learning. The content is amongst the Center’s most professionalized and pragmatic.

Our residential programs make an explicit attempt to remove world changers from both their own professional settings and the traditional university learning environment. Our 19 prior impact houses have invited participants for intensive leadership training and community-building in locations that are intentionally beautiful, in nature, a little hard to get to, and a little disconnected from most folks’ workplaces. We find that this removal helps participants put work aside more completely during our time together, and focus more closely on conversations and work that will allow for stronger relationship-building and adopting new practices that will help them when back home.

We are excited to combine some of the key benefits of these two programs into something entirely unique.

The housing included in the registration cost assumes you’ll share a room with another registrant. We can offer solo rooms for an added cost. If you’re interested in this, please make note in your registration form.

In your registration form, we ask if you have a preference for who you’d like to room with. You can preference a same-gender roommate, and/or coordinate with another attendee and let us know you’d like to stay with them. Otherwise, we’ll ask for information on your sleeping habits (ie, Do you rise early? Stay up late? Prefer a quiet room, or are flexible to noise?) and try to pair you with a compatible roommate. Unless stated otherwise in your registration form, we’ll pair attendees in same-gender rooms.