Cultivate a compassionate culture that builds loyalty through authentic, meaningful contributions to the stakeholder community.
You will learn to:
At the end of the program, you will standardize an operating model to leverage compassionate innovation within a company to make meaningful, authentic contributions to your stakeholders, and be empowered to support others to identify innovation opportunities, build solutions, and do the work that makes things better.
This September, the Cooperative Impact Emerging Leaders virtual program supports lifelong learners to build projects that serve the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.
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Differentiate yourself by creating a case study of your venture that makes an impact. Immerse yourself in an underserved population to gain a deeper understanding of their needs in order to instruct the design and implementation of a program or solution that you deliver to the population, and perhaps scale to larger communities through a strategic partnership that you develop.
Core competencies:
This program is planned as virtual and will consist of a cohort of participants working in collaboration within the larger Cooperative Impact network. The time commitment is approximately 100-200 hours over the course of the fall beginning September 1st and ending December 1st.
This 60-day journey begins Monday, August 24th and is for compassionate innovators to learn and apply new skills by exploring their stakeholder community to uncover shared needs instructing the design of a new venture (program, event, video, product, service) to launch, test, and validate.
The program experience contains a series of workshops, microlessons, activities, and resources for participants to learn new skills and apply them in real-work scenarios. There will be regularly scheduled peer support gatherings, check-ins with Cooperative Impact leadership, and the opportunity to connect with our mentor community. We provide journal prompts that encourage learners to document their process, lessons learned, and any insights they discover about themselves and their work.
Throughout the program, Cooperative Impact will offer verified certifications for specific skills and competencies for a fee.
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This program is for lifelong learners pursuing work in management consulting, social services, social justice, criminal justice, community and economic development, organizational management, social entrepreneurship, social innovation, venture philanthropy, and public policy.
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Below are the core elements of the experience and the capabilities a learner may expect to obtain from successfully completing the program. The content and structure listed below is subject change. The syllabus for the fall 2020 program will be published as we near the start of the program.
0. Who are you?
To lead others, start by leading yourself. Build a deeper relationship with yourself. Know who you are, know what lights you up, know where you’d like to go, who you want to be, and know how to bring yourself there.
I. What problem would you like to solve?
Review the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals to select a general problem(s) that gives you direction towards a population to serve ie: Goal #2: Zero Hunger.
II. Who faces the problem?
Find access to the people you would like to serve (ie community groups, online communities, churches, nonprofits, schools, personal connections, research, attend events / locations where the population can be found, build meaningful relationships with each person, and document your notes from each encounter).
Conduct 10-20 one-on-one interviews from the population you aim to serve.
Research the ecosystem of services and support currently available for the specific population suffering from the specific problem
Based on what you learn, refine the problem you want to solve into something more specific and framed as a “how might we…” question ie: how might we empower single, minority, low-income mother’s to cook healthy on food stamps?
III. What solution will you co-create to serve the population?
Prototype a new service solution closely with stakeholders, and be prepared to continuously improve based on feedback, results, and research.
IV. How will you make your service accessible to more people?
Turn your solution into a digital service, online course, niche website, video series, blog post, tool kit, or various other options in order to amplify your impact.
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This September, our virtual Emerging Leaders Program supports lifelong learners to create projects that serve the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.
You will learn to:
At the end of the program, you will pitch your project to funders and strategic partners who may integrate your work into their organization and hire you.
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