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BOOT CAMP

SII will offer a series of hand-on, workshops to help you learn the essential skills for starting and sustaining a project, initiative, or organization.  Here is a tentative line-up for the topics we plan to offer this year:

Project (Proposal) Design – What does a rigorous proposal for social innovation look like? - This workshop provides a useful framework for preparing grant and fellowship proposals. The first step is defining your project: this entails understanding current approaches and models and how they affect change.  From this base, we can incorporate theories to help us understand how to apply new or innovative approaches to do more effective, outcomes-oriented work.  Finally, by simultaneously developing a system for measurement and evaluation of outcomes of interest, we can constantly refine our model for change.  Potential Starr applicants are strongly encouraged to attend.

Finance 101 – Basic concepts and techniques to understand and manage the financial resources for your project and to measure the value proposition in terms that are universally understood

Branding & Communication – Learn how to describe your work keeping the audience clearly in mind.  Learn how to develop messages that are more memorable and that tell your story more succinctly and fully.

Measurement and Evaluation – This two-part workshop helps participants develop a practical plan to measure the impact and results of their project.  In the first session, participants will learn a framework to define their desired outcomes and to begin to develop the plan.  Several weeks later, teams will return to the second session to receive feedback and refine their plans.

Strategic Planning – Organizations need to ensure that their actions optimize the use of scarce resources.  This workshop will review a process for creating a strategic plan that aligns the organization’s mission and goals with the allocation of resources across programs, products and services.

Building Strong Community Partnerships – This series of monthly workshops, presented by Providence 101 through the Swearer Center, examines the elements of strong partnership and collaboration that enhance impact and sustainability of work in communities.

 

Boot Camps Workshops will be posted on the Swearer Center Calendar.

Please contact Alan Harlam with any question or to suggest a topic that your project would like to see presented in the future.