Firebelly University is a nine-month program established in 1999 as an alternative to an MBA. It is located in the studio of Firebelly Design in Chicago, which has been advocating for socially responsible design since its founding. The program teaches both technical skills like accounting and social skills through working with leaders in the community. It aims to teach students social responsibility and how to merge design with business while learning in a real world setting. The class of 2012 included five students who went on to form social enterprises and non-profits focused on issues like health, education, and poverty.
Developing Greater Impact with High-Impact Practices: Internships and Civic E...Bonner Foundation
These are slides from the presentation given by Jillian Kinzie (Indiana University), Gregory Weight (Washington Internship Institute), and Ariane Hoy (Bonner Foundation) at the January 2015 Association of America Colleges and Universities annual meeting. It explores the elements of high-impact educational practices and how to link them with civic engagement, especially through internships.
Developing Greater Impact with High-Impact Practices: Internships and Civic E...Bonner Foundation
These are slides from the presentation given by Jillian Kinzie (Indiana University), Gregory Weight (Washington Internship Institute), and Ariane Hoy (Bonner Foundation) at the January 2015 Association of America Colleges and Universities annual meeting. It explores the elements of high-impact educational practices and how to link them with civic engagement, especially through internships.
In this introduction to engagement, participants in an "Engage Your Teaching" workshop were introduced to the history of service-learning at St. Thomas, the office of Global and Local Engagement and what the staff of that office mean when they use the term "engagement," examples of service-learning at the University of St. Thomas, and how engagement mobilizes for transformation.
Theory of Change Mapping using a Youth Development Example4Good.org
Harvard researcher Carol Weiss advises communities desiring to make mindful social change that there is nothing as practical as good theory. Because change takes time, it’s important to track and document the process by which one aims to initiate and enforce change. Relaying your message of change to the public may sound challenging and difficult, but it can be done! Every community needs a roadmap for success that clearly states assumptions, inputs, outputs, and outcomes. This webinar will use a youth development as one example of how to take an idea and translate it into what is called a “theory of change.”
Community-Campus engagement is offered and encouraged in many higher education organizations. This study from Donna Jean Forster-Gill and Tom Cooper seeks to analyze these programs and explore ways to maximize their usefulness to the non-profit community organizations which they assist.
www.vibrantcommunities.ca
www.thecommuntityfirst.org
Asia Society PGL2012--Matt Nink--Collaborative Leadershipmnink
We often hear about “collaborative leadership” and “partnerships” without really knowing what catalyzes them and makes them grow. In this workshop participants will interact, engage, define, and walk away with the seven qualities of a collaborative leader. The component parts of leadership can be taught and cultivated among students, colleagues, and community partners. As educational communities needs to do more will less, having a working foundation of collaborative leadership will help teachers and administrators thrive in the 21st century.
During the Reimagine session at the 2022 Bonner Fall Network Meeting, we focused on bigger challenges in higher education (like enrollment, cost, etc.) and how community engagement programs like the Bonner Cohort model offer solution. We shared two theories of change (Diffusion of Innovations and Three Horizons) that might provide perspective for our shared work. Facilitated by Ariane Hoy and Paul Schadewald, Senior Project Manager at Bringing Theory to Practice, a partner to the Bonner Foundation.
Lessons Learned in Marketing and Communications from across the Ashoka U NetworkEm Havens
Lessons Learned in Marketing and Communications from across the Ashoka U Network
A continuation of last year's PR Network Launch, Ashoka U was thrilled to host our second Marketing & Communication Webinar to showcase learnings, successes, & bright spots within our Changemaker Campus Network on August 14, 2014. Open to our entire extended community, we brought folks together who came ready to learn, engage & get inspired!
Brief Agenda
I. Welcome & Introductions
II. Updates from the Ashoka U PR Network
III. Exploring Themes: A Shared Language- What does Social Innovation mean on your Changemaker Campus?
IV. Introduction to Featured Projects from Changemaker Campus Leaders at PSU, Brown & UDEM
IV. Featured Projects:
1. Getting Resourceful with the Elevating Impact Summit & Website development, Presented by Christina Williams & Cindy Cooper, Portland State University
2. Student-powered storytelling: How do you enable changemakers to create and harness the power of their own stories?, Presented by Alex Braunstein, Brown University
3. Integrating the Changemaker Brand into the History and Philosophy of your Institution, Presented by Guillermo Zenizo Lindsey, Universidad de Monterrey
V. Q&A and Conversation
VI. Conclusion & Next steps
Engaging Generation Z: Integrating Global and Local Vision, Structure, and In...CIEE
How are universities responding to two recent paradigm shifts impacting global education? First, there is a generational change between millennials and the new cohort known as K or Z. While our current traditional undergraduates may be more anxious, skeptical, and know only smartphones, they also crave connection and are makers, creators, and inventors. (“Think millennials have it tough? For 'Generation K', life is even harsher.” The Guardian, March 19, 2016) The second shift is the increased fluidity between global and local interactions and groups. As classrooms continue to diversify with international and first-generation students, the university community – students, faculty, and staff – must obtain and demonstrate intercultural agility, curiosity, and empathy to navigate the complexities of the contemporary world. This session addresses how the University of St. Thomas has implemented into its administrative structure an innovative partnership between faculty from diverse disciplines and education abroad professionals to address the new realities of global and local engagement that respond to the world’s most pressing needs.
In this introduction to engagement, participants in an "Engage Your Teaching" workshop were introduced to the history of service-learning at St. Thomas, the office of Global and Local Engagement and what the staff of that office mean when they use the term "engagement," examples of service-learning at the University of St. Thomas, and how engagement mobilizes for transformation.
Theory of Change Mapping using a Youth Development Example4Good.org
Harvard researcher Carol Weiss advises communities desiring to make mindful social change that there is nothing as practical as good theory. Because change takes time, it’s important to track and document the process by which one aims to initiate and enforce change. Relaying your message of change to the public may sound challenging and difficult, but it can be done! Every community needs a roadmap for success that clearly states assumptions, inputs, outputs, and outcomes. This webinar will use a youth development as one example of how to take an idea and translate it into what is called a “theory of change.”
Community-Campus engagement is offered and encouraged in many higher education organizations. This study from Donna Jean Forster-Gill and Tom Cooper seeks to analyze these programs and explore ways to maximize their usefulness to the non-profit community organizations which they assist.
www.vibrantcommunities.ca
www.thecommuntityfirst.org
Asia Society PGL2012--Matt Nink--Collaborative Leadershipmnink
We often hear about “collaborative leadership” and “partnerships” without really knowing what catalyzes them and makes them grow. In this workshop participants will interact, engage, define, and walk away with the seven qualities of a collaborative leader. The component parts of leadership can be taught and cultivated among students, colleagues, and community partners. As educational communities needs to do more will less, having a working foundation of collaborative leadership will help teachers and administrators thrive in the 21st century.
During the Reimagine session at the 2022 Bonner Fall Network Meeting, we focused on bigger challenges in higher education (like enrollment, cost, etc.) and how community engagement programs like the Bonner Cohort model offer solution. We shared two theories of change (Diffusion of Innovations and Three Horizons) that might provide perspective for our shared work. Facilitated by Ariane Hoy and Paul Schadewald, Senior Project Manager at Bringing Theory to Practice, a partner to the Bonner Foundation.
Lessons Learned in Marketing and Communications from across the Ashoka U NetworkEm Havens
Lessons Learned in Marketing and Communications from across the Ashoka U Network
A continuation of last year's PR Network Launch, Ashoka U was thrilled to host our second Marketing & Communication Webinar to showcase learnings, successes, & bright spots within our Changemaker Campus Network on August 14, 2014. Open to our entire extended community, we brought folks together who came ready to learn, engage & get inspired!
Brief Agenda
I. Welcome & Introductions
II. Updates from the Ashoka U PR Network
III. Exploring Themes: A Shared Language- What does Social Innovation mean on your Changemaker Campus?
IV. Introduction to Featured Projects from Changemaker Campus Leaders at PSU, Brown & UDEM
IV. Featured Projects:
1. Getting Resourceful with the Elevating Impact Summit & Website development, Presented by Christina Williams & Cindy Cooper, Portland State University
2. Student-powered storytelling: How do you enable changemakers to create and harness the power of their own stories?, Presented by Alex Braunstein, Brown University
3. Integrating the Changemaker Brand into the History and Philosophy of your Institution, Presented by Guillermo Zenizo Lindsey, Universidad de Monterrey
V. Q&A and Conversation
VI. Conclusion & Next steps
Engaging Generation Z: Integrating Global and Local Vision, Structure, and In...CIEE
How are universities responding to two recent paradigm shifts impacting global education? First, there is a generational change between millennials and the new cohort known as K or Z. While our current traditional undergraduates may be more anxious, skeptical, and know only smartphones, they also crave connection and are makers, creators, and inventors. (“Think millennials have it tough? For 'Generation K', life is even harsher.” The Guardian, March 19, 2016) The second shift is the increased fluidity between global and local interactions and groups. As classrooms continue to diversify with international and first-generation students, the university community – students, faculty, and staff – must obtain and demonstrate intercultural agility, curiosity, and empathy to navigate the complexities of the contemporary world. This session addresses how the University of St. Thomas has implemented into its administrative structure an innovative partnership between faculty from diverse disciplines and education abroad professionals to address the new realities of global and local engagement that respond to the world’s most pressing needs.
1. Firebelly University
Alternative to an MBA for the socially conscious
Firebelly Design
Dawn Hancock
The University
What, How/Where, Why and Who
2012 Alumni
2. Firebelly Design
Good Design for Good Reason
•South side of Chicago
•Established in 1999
•Small studio, seven people
•Mix of photographers, writers, typographers and designers
“As early advocates for socially
responsible design, we pioneered an
ethic that values honesty, empathy
and Good Design for Good Reason.”
3. Dawn Hancock
Founder and Managing Director
•Started her company with $6,000
•Established relationships within her community
•Established Grant for Good for local non-profits
•Started Camp Firebelly for college students
•Started a local non-profit, Reason to Give
•Started Firebelly University
She prefers to live and work in the
present, to make of it something rich
and sustainable that can make a
lasting impact.
4. Firebelly University
•Alternative to an MBA
•Nine month program
•Teaching with interest in social responsibility
•Monday–Thursday
Technical and social skills
cash flow, profit & loss statements, payroll, client communications etc...
•Friday
Meet with leaders in community and industry for new perspectives
WHAT
5. Firebelly University
•$6,000 upon admission
•$1,000 stipend each month
•Firebelly studio, south side of Chicago
HOW/WHERE
6. Firebelly University
•To teach passionate people social responsibility
•Merge design and business
•Learn everything from an MBA in a real world setting
•Pass on Firebelly’s philosophy, focus on good design for
clients you believe in and support nonprofits that make
decisions in a socially responsible way
WHY
7. Firebelly University
Class of 2012
Amy Guterman Jince Kuruvilla Johnathon Strube
WHO
Liz Rose Chmela Deborah Alden
8. Firebelly University
Class of 2012
The founder of Knowtify, a communications
consultancy focused on making the complex
clear for the common good.
Amy Guterman
WHO
Using our defined process—scope, research, prototype
& design, and delivery—we partner with our target audi-
ences and experts in the field to create unique solutions
that make information in the social sector approachable.
9. Firebelly University
Class of 2012
Amy Guterman
Helping Chicago Public Schools fight childhood obesity by
simplifying their program to inform faculty and motivate
students.
WHO
10. Firebelly University
Class of 2012
Founding partner of Tilt Shift, an inter-disci-
plinary design studio inspired by a new way of
thinking and doing.
Liz Rose Chmela
WHO
11. Firebelly University
Class of 2012
GlobeMed “Our model
of long-term partnership has
allowed us to work with or-
ganizations around the world
to help break the cycle of
poverty and poor health.”
Liz Rose Chmela
WHO