I’m excited to kick off conversation about social impact tools! They’re incredibly important to have access to, and your mastery of them will differentiate you as a social impact professional. Off we go. :)
Tool | Developing a Strategy for Social Change
While a staff member at The Center for Social Innovation at the Stanford Graduate School of Business (CSI), I’ve collaborated with an outstanding team of social impact professionals whose work involves developing tools to help social innovators around the world transform their ideas into impact.
Many of these tools are made available to the public, and I’m excited to begin sharing this treasure with you so that you, too, can deepen and advance your practice as a changemaker.
Going from idea to impact can feel mysterious (and daunting) if you haven’t been introduced to the journey. Today’s tool offers you this introduction, and it does so in a way that is easy to access and consume.
Called Developing a Strategy for Social Change, this tool was produced by CSI in partnership with The Stanford Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society. Its authors are Bernadette Clavier, Paul Brest, and Laura Hattendorf - all respected social impact leaders worth following.
As you’ll see, this free, online tool offers (world-class!) multi-media instruction and it does so in 3 stages:
Stage 1: Understand the Problem
Stage 2: Design a Strategy for Impact
Stage 3: Test, Learn, and Iterate
Super straight-forward in its layout. And as you navigate these stages, you’ll do so with Jordan, an imagined, recent business school graduate offering an illustrative case.
Over to you now! I hope you'll be able to use this tool to do the work you care about.