Field-building & Impact Influence

Learning Outcomes & Goals

• Understand: the key components of effective field-building for impact.
• Explore: how to integrate key elements of systems thinking and changemaking into your current strategies and operations.
• Map: existing changemaking opportunities and leverage points.
• Act: articulate your statement of change and strategies to transform existing resources into results.

Topics

Introduction to Field-building & Impact Influence

• What does it look like when an institution leads and influences key Partners across the higher education industry and beyond to build a world where everyone is a changemaker?

Integration: Social Innovation, Systems Thinking, & Changemaking 

• Learn how to articulate a statement of change.
• Learn how to transform resources into results.
• Learn how to identify changemaking opportunities and begin to understand how to shift systemic elements to transform social issues.

Learning Outcomes & Goals

• Understand: key variables of a system and how they might be shifted to better support your intended impact.
• Explore: promising practices for field-building for impact.
• Map: current initiatives that can be leveraged for greater impact.
• Act: create strategies to support changemaking efforts for systems change.

Topics

Engaging with & Impacting Systems     

• Learn to identify the key variables of a system. 
• Explore promising practices and develop your own strategies to shift systemic elements to transform social issues. 
• Map changemaking initiatives that are already present in the system that may help to rewire the broken aspects of the system(s). 
• Create strategies to support and nurture these changemaking efforts within the system(s). 

• Ashoka's Changemaker Index (CMI): Learn about your own changemaking capacity
• Becoming A Changemaker Institution: Guidebook and robust framework for faculty, staff, and student leaders who are ready to embed changemaking into their work, leadership, campus communities, and changemaking ecosystems. 
• Evaluating Changemaker Education: A Practitioner's Guide: Strategic evaluation practices to strengthen changemaking across your institution
• Preparing Students for a Rapidly Changing World: Learning outcomes from a variety of disciplines for courses, course sequences, and co-curricular programs 
• Curriculum Guide: Learn about promising approaches to curriculum and teaching, and opportunities for innovation in changemaking education
• Changemaker Institutions: Learn how the Changemaker Institution model can help your campus improve recruitment, fundraising, community influence, student outcomes, and engagement at all levels of your institution.