The Social Impact Lab - Inspire Application
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About The Social Impact Lab
The Social Impact Lab
blends human-centered design and systems-thinking to inspire ideas and foster different solutions to be modelled and tested to create and/or accelerate impact. By sharing our experience and learning in the Lab, we aim to inspire and enable people and organizations that seek new ways of generating social and economic impact.
Program Details
Inspire is a 12-week program designed to guide the way your organization develops future business models, products, and services. The 32-hour program is comprised of eight sessions (4 hours each). Additional time is required between sessions for participants to complete homework assignments.
This is a unique learning experience that teaches individuals and organizations how to apply design thinking as a tool for problem solving on actual projects that are happening in their business. Over the course of the program, participants will learn the following:
Set the stage for your success
Truly understand your “customer”
Design new value propositions
Build foundations for new relationships
Customer Development
Develop clarity about the context and impact of your opportunity while we help you define success through real and meaningful outcomes
Our mentors will help you challenge your assumptions and biases about your service, clients, or markets and evaluate insights in real situations
We will help you leverage your customers’ behaviours to define new impact opportunities and the capabilities needed to deliver your desired outcomes
Engage with our network of advisers, corporations, agency partners, and service providers about good steps that may be worth taking together
Test your assumptions directly with internal and external stakeholders using low fidelity prototypes and customer interviews
Fees:
The fees for the course are $5,000 for Non-Profit Organizations. For United Way Non-Profit Partner Agencies, we are pleased to offer this course free of charge through United Way of Calgary and Area. Please note that a grant is available through the Calgary Foundation for eligible non-profits to participate in Inspire.
This includes course costs, background reading materials, and access to a digital collaboration space. Your place in the course will be secured when full payment has been received.
Application close date:
May 4, 2020
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First Name
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Last Name
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Title
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Email
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Phone Number
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Organization Name
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Are you a United Way Partner Agency?
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Other, please describe.
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Are you seeking new mindsets and tools to change the way your organization develops future business models, products and services?
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Can you dedicate a team of 2 to 5 people, of whom at least two will spend at least 5-10 additional hours per week, outside of workshops, to execute tests and experiments?
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The dates for our upcoming cohort are:
Session #
Cohort 8
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May 13
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May 19
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May 27
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June 9
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June 24
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July 8
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July 22
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Please describe the problem you are looking to solve.
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Please describe how you currently anticipate solving this problem.
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Please describe why this problem is worth solving.
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Do you consent to receiving communications from The Social Impact Lab?
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How did you hear about The Social Impact Lab?
Word of mouth
J5 Design + Innovation
United Way
The Social Impact Lab website
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