The Social Innovation and Change Initiative (SICI) launched at the Harvard Kennedy School in 2016. We develop research, pedagogical content, and educational programs that help students, citizens, and organizations around the world, navigate the challenges of initiating and implementing social change. Through these core activities, we aim to illuminate the multiple paths social innovators can take to advance social progress across sectors.
We are extremely proud of the 2024 cohort who recently completed the West Africa Acumen Fellowship, marking their official induction into our esteemed Foundry community!🎉
These 20 exceptional Fellows have displayed resilience, moral imagination and humility. They fully committed to a rigorous period of growth, learning and unlearning, and emerged with invaluable experiences, insights and reflections!✨
Want to learn more about these extraordinary leaders driving change in West Africa? Meet the 2024 Cohort here: https://hubs.ly/Q02PXz0v0#AcumenFellowship#WestAfrica#Leadership
As a former mayor and cabinet secretary, and now co-director of CPL, HKS's Anthony Foxx has spent a lot of time thinking about the importance of leadership in a time of political divisions https://ken.sc/47oWSoM
Trisha Prabhu (#Cheng 2020-2021) shared encouraging words for young social innovators while accepting One Young World’s Entrepreneur of the Year award! Congrats, Trisha!
“I encourage you to use your passion, your business, to go after the ideas that you care about, whether it's making a better digital world or tackling other unsolvable challenges like climate change. You have so much power and potential to build a better world.”
🇺🇲 Trisha Prabhu , Founder and CEO Rethink and winner of the Entrepreneur of the Year Award
#OYW24
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The Echoing Green Fellowship is an incredible opportunity for early-stage social innovators to advance their social change work! Applications due October 8: https://lnkd.in/eubEqc7
Calling all social innovators 📣 Our 2025 Fellowship applications are now open!
Echoing Green Fellows receive capital through a $100,000 stipend, capacity-building support, and a community to support them on their entrepreneurial journey. We're seeking individuals with deep knowledge and a strong passion for designing innovative solutions with and for their communities.
The application window will be open from September 17 to October 8, 2024. Learn more and apply: https://bit.ly/3lLElLT
C’est aujourd’hui que sort notre ouvrage « Le Pouvoir, Pour Tous ! Comprendre les Dynamiques du Pouvoir pour Transformer le Monde ». Face à la crise politique, socio-économique et environnementale à laquelle nous sommes confrontés, il est essentiel que nous ayons le courage, l’énergie et les compétences nécessaires pour nous engager dans un effort collectif de transformation de nos systèmes économiques, sociaux et politiques, afin de réduire les inégalités, de renforcer la démocratie et de protéger la planète.
Or, pour mener à bien une telle entreprise de changement, nous avons besoin d’un ingrédient essentiel : LE POUVOIR. C’est la raison pour laquelle nous avons écrit ce livre avec ma co-autrice Tiziana Casciaro, et que j’ai entrepris de le traduire de l’anglais au français tout en l’adaptant et en l’enrichissant pour le public francophone.
En nous appuyant sur la recherche en sciences humaines et sociales et sur des histoires inédites, notre objectif est de faciliter la compréhension du pouvoir pour permettre à chacune et chacun de tordre le cou aux idées fausses le concernant et de participer plus efficacement aux efforts de changement dans les organisations et la société. Merci à toutes celles et tous ceux qui ont travaillé avec nous sur le livre chez Dunod et merci à tous nos collègues et amis qui nous ont aidées dans son processus de développement. Merci à Romain Slitine, Miranda Richmond Mouillot, Caroline Faure, Anne-Claire Pache et à Blanche Segrestin sans lesquels la version française de l’ouvrage n’aurait pas pu être ce qu’elle est aujourd’hui. #lepouvoirpourtout#pouvoir#agiter#innover#orchestrerhttps://lnkd.in/dTxBDTSx
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Today is the release of “Le Pouvoir, Pour Tous !”. In the face of political, socio-economic, and environmental crises, we need the courage, energy, and skills to work together to transform our economic, social, and political systems. Such a collective effort is essential to reduce inequalities, strengthen democracy, and protect the planet.
But to succeed in such an undertaking of change, we need an essential ingredient: POWER. That's why I wrote this book with my co-author Tiziana Casciaro, and undertook to translate it from English into French, adapting and enriching it for the French-speaking public.
Drawing on research in the humanities and social sciences, and on never-before-told stories, our aim is to make power easier to understand, so that everyone can dispel misconceptions about it and participate more effectively in efforts to bring about change in organizations and society. Thanks to everyone who worked with us on the book at Dunod and thanks to all our colleagues and friends who helped us in its development process. Thank you to Romain Slitine, Miranda Richmond Mouillot, Caroline Faure, Anne-Claire Pache, and Blanche Segrestin, without whom the French edition would not be what it is today.
Congratulations to Mohit Rauniyar (#Cheng 2023) and the team at Canopy Nepal for their partnership with the Kathmandu Metropolitan City Office!
Innovative government partnerships - like this! - are so important in enabling organizations like Canopy to scale their impact.
Founder - Canopy Nepal | Educator | HKS SICI Adrian Cheng Fellow | Global Shaper | Harvard GSE '24
I’m thrilled to announce a major step in our journey of scaling through government collaboration! We start our partnership with काठमाडौँ महानगरपालिका-Kathmandu Metropolitan City Office (KMC) across 18 schools, reaching around 2,000 students. This partnership is particularly exciting because it all began with conversations at the Social Innovation + Change Initiative at Harvard Kennedy School, where Ally Phillips and the team consistently pushed for the scalability of our Katha Bunaun model, recognizing its potential to be both effective and easy to scale.
Now, KMC has embraced the importance of storytelling for young students, introducing it as a new theme for their textbook-free Fridays. Canopy Nepal is leading this effort with our Katha Bunaun sessions, where we equip secondary school students with the creativity, critical thinking, and self-expression skills to tell their own stories.
This collaboration is a significant achievement in our scaling efforts through local government support. This is just the beginning, and we’re excited to see where this journey takes us next!
We’re eager to explore more government and institutional partnerships like this, so if you're interested or know of anyone who might be a great fit, I’d love to connect.
Shout-out to #Cheng alum Micaela Connery, whose organization The Kelsey was featured on PBS News Hour!
Learn about how The Kelsey is working to meet the accessible housing needs of the disability community in San Jose through housing units, community centers, and advocacy: https://lnkd.in/gDD6mA-4
Tuesday night may have been the #Cheng Fellow Spotlight, but we’d be remiss if we didn’t spotlight the SICI team, too. Thank you to everyone who made the Spotlight possible!
Last night, our 2024–25 #Cheng Fellows shared their social innovation efforts with our friends and collaborators from across Harvard at our annual Spotlight event. Thanks to all who came out to support this incredible group!
