Overview
CCE is partnering with the Carlsen Center for Innovation &
Entrepreneurship at Sacramento State to deliver a four-part
workshop series aimed at providing an innovation mindset,
framework, and toolkit for civic and social innovators. The
series aims to generate a set of actionable ideas for key civic
and social issues in the Greater Sacramento Region.
Thank you to our Program Champion: SAFE Credit Union.
Benefits
Participants will have the opportunity to learn:
- Design thinking process and understanding a problem with
empathy
- Proven tools and methods for effective brainstorming and
ideation
- Building and establishing a culture conducive to
innovation
- Ecosystem stakeholders and their roles critical to social
innovation initiatives
Audience
The target audience for this workshop series includes:
- Individuals passionate about making a social impact and
change
- Regional leaders working in the civic and social space
- Corporate leaders and executives
- Nonprofit leaders and executives
- Nonprofit board members
- Civic commissioners
- Community engagement managers
Structure
This series will have four separate sessions dedicated to taking
participants through the foundations of design
thinking. Participants will join breakout rooms at
certain points to discuss specific issues and hear from
subject matter experts.
- Four weeks long (two hours each Friday)
- Small group size
- Cohort-like structure
- Hands-on application of concepts
- Guest speakers
Course Schedule and Registration
March 5:
Defining the Problem and Opportunity
March 12:
Idea Generation
March 19:
Piloting and Prototyping
March 26:
Diffusion and Scaling
We recommend that you sign up for all four sessions to get the
most out of the series.
Purpose
The purpose of the Social Innovation Series is to provide civic
and social innovators with proven and repeatable tools and
methods for generating tangible ideas to social challenges. The
resulting ideas generated from the series will support the
Greater Sacramento Region in solving some of its key issue areas.
In addition, the series will empower civic and social innovators
to bring new ideas to the floor and build a culture of
innovation.
The tangible ideas generated during this series will have the
opportunity to be exercised with future programming through the
Carlsen Center (i.e. Virtual Entrepreneurship Toolkit
Series).
Potential areas of focus:
- Digital Inclusion
- Climate Change & Sustainability
- COVID-19
- Cybersecurity
- Education/Workforce Development
- Food Access
- Inclusive Economic Development
- Health
- Homelessness
- Mobility/Transportation
