Field-building & Impact Influence
About the Learning & Collaboration Journey
Join this advanced learning and collaboration journey to explore strategies for field-building and influence for impact.
Participants will develop strategies to leverage their program, institution, and ecosystem for increased influence and impact.
Learning & Collaboration Journey Topics
- Integration: Social Innovation, Systems Thinking and Changemaking
- Engaging with and Impacting Systems
Learning & Collaboration Journey Goals and Outcomes
Learn how to:
- articulate a statement of change
- transform resources into results
- identify changemaking opportunities and understand how to shift systemic elements to transform social issues.
Elements may include:
- variables of that system
- changemaking initiatives present in the system that may help to rewire the broken aspects of the system(s)
- strategy(ies) that might support and nurture these changemaking efforts within the system(s)
- potential impacts of changemaking efforts.
Learning & Collaboration Journey Benefits
All Ashoka U Learning & Collaboration Journeys offer the following opportunities:
- Build strong ties with other Change Leaders and learn from their diverse perspectives through activities, peer reviews, and presentation evaluations.
- Gain access to a range of materials to accelerate your learning as you transform your program, institution, and ecosystem
- Engage with and learn from Change Leaders from Changemaker Campuses and learn more about Ashoka and social innovation from members of Ashoka's global network.
- Reflect on and create your Changemaker Story
- Learn about Ashoka and the Everyone a Changemaker vision
- Learn about Ashoka U and the Changemaker Campus Network
- Engagement with key Ashoka U resources developed in collaboration with hundreds of higher education institutions around the world.
Add-ons
Participate in spotlight coaching conversation with Change Leaders at current Changemaker Campuses to learn more about their social innovation and changemaking ecosystems and learnings from the Designation Process.
Resources
- 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.
Join A Learning & Collaboration Journey
Ashoka U Learning & Collaboration Journeys are offered on demand.
Contact us: AshokaU [@] ashoka.org if you are interested in hosting one!