Our Posts

Mix of written blog posts, audio podcast “episodes”, or video Youtube style “episodes”.

Challenge 1: Investigate Root Causes

  • Include a reference list of the sources you investigated in your worksheet
  • Responses to all the reflection prompts

Challenge 2: Find a Collaborative Community

  • Include your list of contacts
  • Include your interview questions per interview
  • Include a 200-300 word interview summary per interview and include your major takeaways
  • Responses to all the reflection prompts

Challenge 3: Map your Ecosystem (and Practice Empathy)

  • Include your list of organizations
  • Include your interview questions per interview
  • Include a 200-300 word interview summary per interview and include your major takeaways
  • Responses to all the reflection prompts

Challenge 4: Dive Deep

  • Provide the sources you read/watched/listened to
  • Provide a 700-800+ word summary of the source(s) and your biggest takeaways (~1.5 pages, single-space)
  • Responses to all the reflection prompts

Challenge 5: Attend an event

  • Include details about the event (date, location, title, etc.)
  • Summarize the event
  • Summarize your biggest takeaways from the event
  • Responses to all the reflection prompts

Challenge 6: Attend a meeting

  • Include details about the meeting (date, location, title, etc.)
  • Summarize the meeting
  • Summarize your biggest takeaways from the meeting
  • Responses to all the reflection prompts

Challenge 7: Create your own

  • Explain what you did and why
  • Summarize what happened
  • Responses to all the reflection prompts

Phase 3: Press Challenge

  • Write (and send) a letter to the editor of a newspaper for an issue, cause, or effort you want to support, critique, or question.

Phase 3 Advocate Challenge

  • Lobby a public or elected official on a particular issue or policy via email, letter, or phone.

Phase 3 workshop

  • Create your own! Before you start this, though, be sure to review and approve with your instructor, Dr. B/Beth.