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🚨 WANT TO BE A CHANGEMAKER WITHOUT QUITTING YOUR DAY JOB? Applications are now OPEN for the 2025 Morgridge Acceleration Program (MAP) Fellowship! 📝 Not just any fellowship—this is an OPPORTUNITY to SOLVE real-world challenges facing nonprofits while enhancing your professional skills and network. 🌎 MAP Fellows work closely with influential nonprofit executives, known as MAP Mentors, each presenting a challenge their organization is currently facing. Fellows COMMIT to solving these challenges over a six-month period while maintaining their full-time jobs. 🌱 Forbes called the MAP Fellowship "a powerful opportunity for collaboration and innovative thinking." Here’s what YOU get as a MAP Fellow: ✅ Hands-on guidance from mentors during nonprofit site visits.   ✅ $5,000 CHALLENGE FUND to innovate and test your solutions.   ✅ Leadership skill-building at the immersive kick-off event in Miami.   ✅ Public-speaking coaching for the culmination event in Denver. Meet some of the 2025 MAP Fellowship Mentors and the challenges they'll tackle with you: ✅ Laura Glenny, Accion – Exploring Financial Inclusion   ✅ Chantel Dominguez, American Rivers – Improving Community Engagement   ✅ Christina Ngo, MEd, MBA, Arizona State University Foundation – Designing Partnerships   ✅ Cindy Eggleton, Brilliant Detroit – Streamlining Processes   ✅ Sabrina Hargrave, Brooklyn Org – Capacity Building   ✅ Kate Keefer, The Climate Initiative – Impact Reporting   ✅ Regina Sharma, Detroit Justice Center – Development Forecasting   ✅ Dr. Angela Jackson, Future Forward Institute – Marketing the Future of Work   ✅ Tymerra Coleman, Merit America – DEI Onboarding   ✅ Matt Scott, Project Drawdown – Facilitating Climate Solutions Convenings   ✅ Courtney Lee, MBA, Public Knowledge – Developing Equity Plans   ✅ Meghan Curran, Shedd Aquarium – Increasing Conservation Engagement ✨ MAP Fellows commit about 15 hours a month to this journey. It's all about COMMUNITY, GROWTH, and LEADERSHIP development. And you’ll bring back these invaluable lessons and connections to your primary employer and colleagues. 👀 Ready to APPLY? Here's the link: https://bit.ly/3Xv9PsD Tag a friend who needs to see this, comment below with your thoughts, or share this post. SHARING is CARING! 💚

What links Derren Brown and Rob Burrow (RIP)? 🌟 They have a shared message about the importance of using one's talents and platform to make a positive impact on the world. 🌟 🎭 As explored in my latest Go Flux Yourself newsletter (https://lnkd.in/defWNypJ), psychological illusionist Brown urges technologists to use their skills for the greater good, ensuring that innovation uplifts humanity rather than accelerates its demise. He emphasises the need for a mindset shift in the tech industry to create technology that genuinely addresses human needs and benefits society. 🏉 Similarly, the legacy of rugby league legend Burrow, who died yesterday aged 41, serves as an inspiration for entrepreneurs and innovators in the technology and business world. Despite facing adversity in his battle with motor neurone disease (MND), Burrow used his platform to drive change, raise awareness, and attract significant funds (£15 million) for MND charities. His unwavering determination and ability to make a difference, even in the face of overwhelming odds, is a powerful example for those in the business and technology sectors. Both Brown and Burrow demonstrate that true success is measured not just by personal achievements, but by the positive impact one leaves on the world, regardless of the industry. 💼 Their stories serve as a call to action for leaders and innovators to shape a future in which their talents and efforts contribute to the betterment of humanity. 🎈There is much more to dig into in this newly published newsletter, including what a classroom experiment teaches us about prioritising others' wellbeing leads to shared success and happiness. To read the full newsletter and discover how these insights from diverse fields can inspire us to innovate with purpose and build a better future for all, please visit www.oliverpickup.com. (It can also be found in my Linktree, in my bio.) As always, I welcome your feedback! 🚀 #perspective #empathy #innovation #futureofwork #leadership

😅 👏 I just finished my Dual Impact Social Impact Masterclass!  Great turnout by some amazing purpose-driven companies and industry friends. Here's what we covered - all in 60 minutes: Lesson 1: Trends & History Lesson 2: Setting Your CSR Vision + Goals Lesson 3: Identifying Your Issues Lesson 4: Vetting Nonprofits Lesson 5: Creating a Measurement Framework Comment "Masterclass" and I'll send you these 5 awesome frameworks we shared from it: 1.𝗧𝗼𝗽-𝗦𝗵𝗲𝗹𝗳 𝗧𝗿𝗲𝗻𝗱 𝗔𝗽𝗽𝗹𝗶𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 2.𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗛𝗼𝘂𝘀𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝗩𝗦𝗠𝗚𝗥 3.𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗦𝗣𝗣𝗦 𝗙𝗿𝗮𝗺𝗲𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸 4.𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐅𝐎𝐂𝐔𝐒 𝐅𝐫𝐚𝐦𝐞𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤 5.𝗬𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗠𝗶𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻-𝗩𝗮𝗹𝘂𝗲 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗺𝗶𝘀𝗲 (𝗠𝗩𝗣) 7.𝐀𝐜𝐜𝐞𝐥𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐭 𝐈𝐦𝐩𝐚𝐜𝐭 𝐅𝐫𝐚𝐦𝐞𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤 #socialimpact #CSR #purpose _________ 💪 On a mission to help 100,000 social impact professionals raise $10B over the next 10 years. 🤟

👍 👎 Why feedback matters to us. We regularly ask the organisations we fund and engage with to let us know how they find the experience of working with us. This helps us identify opportunities to improve, especially around our grant-making processes and relationships. In our latest blog, Partnerships and Learning Manager Elaine Gibb explains how we've recently reviewed our feedback system and shares what we've learned and what we'll be doing differently in future. https://lnkd.in/eUnkxwYu

Lately, I’ve been speaking with non-profit leaders about one big question: How can we make our programs sustainable? Here’s my take: Lasting change comes from within communities. It’s about involving them in our dialogues and processes to truly co-create impact. When we understand what drives people and give them a sense of ownership, behavior shifts become seamless and sustainable. This is where Social and Behavior Change (SBC) comes in: It’s about connecting with communities to understand their lives and priorities. It’s about asking the right questions: ❓ What does their day-to-day reality look like? ❓ What truly matters to them? ❓ What are their needs, challenges, and motivations? ❓ How do cultural, social, and economic factors influence them? These insights empower us to: ✅ Create relatable, interactive tools that engage communities. ✅ Simplify complex concepts through visual, story-like formats. ✅ Build trust and agency to foster safe spaces for growth. ✅ Enable mindset shifts by creating ownership and motivation. If we want impact that lasts, it’s time to invite communities into the process. Because lasting change always comes from within. If you are curious SBC could be applied to your work, DM me & let's have a chat! ☕

For anyone engaged in or near the Third Sector some interesting findings......

It’s officially #GivingTuesday! Did you know that SWAN Impact Network is a non-profit? With an educational mission, SWAN hosts regular virtual and live events to make impact investing accessible, engaging, and welcoming. Of course, we’re also a force for impact, with chapters in three cities led by angels who are dedicated to improving lives through investing in and supporting entrepreneurs making a positive difference. Donations are tax-deductible: https://lnkd.in/e8S-GFc3

🌍 Social Impact & Service Professionals—this workshop is for you! Join us on Tuesday, October 1st at 12pm CT for a FREE workshop tailored for nonprofit executives, community organizers, activists, fellowship leaders, NGOs, and other social impact professionals. This session will help you connect deeply with your communities, understand diverse needs, and drive greater impact in your mission. Together, we’ll sharpen your skills as a listener and collaborator, working to identify the unique needs, values, and strengths of the communities you serve. Why join us? 1️⃣ Build Resilience Amidst Global Crises: Learn strategies to keep your mission and values intact in the face of adversity. 2️⃣ Enjoy a Healing Space for Collective Humanity: Reconnect with your purpose, reflect, and renew in a supportive environment. Let’s build smarter, stronger pathways for both personal and organizational growth. 📅 Register now and invite a colleague: https://lnkd.in/gXtJmd7f Together, we can transform communities and create real change.

"The truly “new” world order will not be achieved through any typical “new” social, political, economic, or ecological movements or ideology, regardless of how well-intentioned they seem. Real change will come when the emerging “countercultural” threads of EXISTING community-based movements (silos) embed a new “weaving and bridging function” (Symbiotic Culture DNA) into their operations that will connect and amplify the good already happening into a new Power for Change — where all these good intentions are gathered under “one big intent” — with a unifying worldview, purpose, and action plan. A true grassroots and bottom-up global transformation starts in each local community and with every single one of us." From my new book, Birthing the Symbiotic Age, Chapter 5, Part 2 https://lnkd.in/gXxCsH5a

Happy Holidays! Highlighted below are events and opportunities for the Month of December: 1. Bain & Company ADvantage Experience: A Webinar for Advanced Degrees Date: Wednesday, December 11th, 2024 Time: 8pm-9pm EST Location: Zoom, register here for link: https://lnkd.in/e3Fpdgp5 Are you interested in learning more about Bain's ADvantage program? If so, join this webinar to learn more about ADvantage, a week-long spring program hosted by most of Bain’s North American offices and open exclusively to Advanced Degree candidates. 2. Portal Holiday Event (Portal Innovations, LLC) Date: Wednesday, December 18th, 2024 Time: 4:30pm - 7:00pm Location: Portal Innovations, 101 Nerem St NW, 5th floor, Atlanta, GA, 30313 Gather with fellow innovators, entrepreneurs, and industry leaders for an evening of food, drinks, and festive fun. Let’s toast to the year’s achievements and exciting possibilities ahead in 2025! Whether you’re here to connect, celebrate, or simply relax, this is the perfect night to unwind with the brightest in biotech and life sciences. Register here: https://lnkd.in/edhS8AjW 3. Georgia Bio Survey Date: ASAP Location: The comfort of your own home. Fill out this ~2 min survey: https://lnkd.in/ebhfrmEA Georgia Bio is a non-profit organization that connects innovators, policy makers, and business professionals to help grow the life science ecosystem in Georgia. They are actively running programs for young professionals and would love to hear your thoughts. We want to hear from you: What challenges have you faced in preparing for your career? What resources, opportunities, or programs would you find most valuable? Your feedback will directly influence the design of new initiatives tailored to support students and professionals like you. 4. CCT Atlanta - Community Consulting Teams Atlanta Application Date: Tuesday, December 31st, 2024 Volunteer as a Consultant! Any new applications will be considered for the Spring 2025 cycle. Project duration's are typically 10 weeks, and volunteers usually spend 4 to 6 hours per week on a project. Please fill out the survey here, and we will reach out in the spring to identify your project preferences. Click here to learn more about CCT: www.cctatlanta.org Wishing everyone a great holiday season!