Center for Social Impact Strategy

Join us for our May Speaker series featuring Josh Lavra who is principal at Hopelab. Learn more about the talk below and register at https://bit.ly/SPEAK26. See you online! 🖥️
Talk Description: What does it mean to truly share power with young people – not just in rhetoric, but in research, funding, and strategy? Grounded in Hopelab’s work at the intersection of youth well-being, technology, and equity, this talk highlights concrete stories of co-creating with young people, and the messy, generative work of designing more hopeful futures.

On April 13, 3:00pm-4:30pm, we will acknowledge 10 years of work and discuss how the Center for Social Impact Strategy might leverage its resources for changemakers in the coming decade. Register at https://bit.ly/SPEAK26 . See you online! 🖥️

We invite all CSIS alumni to share their experiences with the CSIS program and curriculum, as well as their own social impact work. As we think about the future, we will discuss how university centers like CSIS can continue to empower world changers. Join us for an engaging conversation that will inspire us to imagine the future impact of our work.

Join the Center for Social Impact Strategy (CSIS) and Penn Center for Inclusive Innovation & Technology for our 2025 speaker series! We have an outstanding lineup of speakers who will discuss various topics within the social impact space. To register, please visit https://bit.ly/SPEAK25.

All sessions are Mondays, 3:00 pm - 4:30 pm, hosted meeting-style virtually💻.

Join us on October 28, 2024, for our virtual speaker series "The New Civic Commons: How Public Libraries Can Build Social Cohesion and Promote Civic Renewal" featuring Shamichael Hallman. You can register here bit.ly/sprk24.

Workshop Description: America is facing an epidemic of loneliness and isolation, with troubling effects on our mental and physical health. We live in one of the most divisive times in our history, one in which we tend to work, play, and associate only with people who think as we do. How do we create spaces for people to unite—to open our minds, understand our differences, and exchange ideas? During the talk, he will discuss his work and his new book "Meet Me at the Library." The book explores libraries as "sites of encounter" and seeks to demonstrate the public library's unique role in generating opportunities for shared experience among people of all incomes and backgrounds. Meet me at the Library can be purchased here: https://islandpress.org/books/meet-me-library ; use the code LIBRARY for a 20% discount.