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Non-profit Workshop Series and Cohort
Impact Amplifier
Next begins Cohort February 2024
Join a community of non-profit and social impact leaders committed to making meaningful, sustainable impact. This non-profit Workshop Series and Cohort will help you…
- Gain valuable resources to increase impact
- Practice new skills in a supportive space
- Apply learning to real challenges
- Share ideas, discuss challenges and solutions with your community
- Learn from industry experts and your peers
This hands-on three month experience includes monthly seminars, self-study and application activities, 1:1 coaching from our experts, and structured peer-group support.
What You’ll Learn:
- Co-design (Theory of Change, discovery strategies and tools, focusing a problem, ideating solutions, prototyping and testing)
- Co-implementation (Inclusive program governance, local people and partners, building capacity, training strategy, engaging volunteers and stakeholders)
- Co-evaluation (Strategies, impact measures, sensitive data collection, impact reporting, sharing your impact)
Shelley Henson
Lead Facilitator
Shelley founded the Center for Design Kindness and co-founded the Sustainable Community Collective. Her experience spans both the public and private sectors. Shelley lead global leader humanitarian training for Latter-day Saint Charities, a global faith-based NGO. She also held senior global leadership roles at Visa and American Express where she enabled financial inclusion for marginalized groups, supported diversity and inclusion, and introduced human-centered design into leadership training.
Shelley supported the Perpetual Education Fund, a global no-cost educational loan program, eased refugee resettlement with the International Rescue Committee, and conducted audience listening research with the Navajo Nation. As Design Research Scientist for the Center for Open and Sustainable Learning, she led research and innovation efforts to provide open access education from universities including MIT, the Open University of the Netherlands, Notre Dame, Perdue, and more.
Shelley holds a Master of Liberal Arts (ALM) in Global Development Practice from Harvard, and a M.Ed. in Education, Curriculum, and Instruction from Weber State University, where she was adjunct faculty in Leadership Development. She previously served as Board Chair for Know Your Lemons Foundation, Advisory Board member for Harvard ManageMentor, and was peer reviewer for the International Review of Research in Open and distributed Learning.
Shelley lives in Salt Lake City, Utah, when she isn’t wandering about in her van with her incomparable service dog, Tucker.
Applied Learning and Program Design Project
Design Kindly for Teams
Timing based on the needs of your organization and the challenge you are seeking to address
Build your team’s capability to leverage human-centered programming approaches to build a new or existing program. This applied learning and program design project will focus on a real challenge you are seeking to address.
- Develop your team’s capacity to address sticky human challenges
- Galvanize and align organizational leadership
- Build systems that work for your organization to directly engage beneficiaries in meaningful ways
- Help staff develop new skills and boost satisfaction with their results, fighting burnout and turnover
What You’ll Do:
- Discover and focus on the true challenges and goals of your beneficiaries
- Ideate, prototype, and test innovative solutions in partnership with your beneficiaries
- Develop a co-implementation and co-evaluation plan
- Share your impact with donors, your audience, and stakeholders in ways that keep resources flowing to support your programs
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