Taylor is seeking a diverse team of responsible, open-minded, motivated, and dynamic “changemaking” Student Fellows for the 2017-2018 academic year. Applicants should be excited about supporting their peers and enhancing changemaker…
“Everything that makes our daily living easier, more productive, more enjoyable, and more pleasurable was created because of a problem, and because some designer or team of designers somewhere out…
Taylor is excited to introduce and welcome our eight new student fellows for the 2016-2017 academic year Taylor Student Fellows work closely with the Taylor faculty and staff to engage…
Tulane University has been named the inaugural recipient of the Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi’s $100,000 Excellence in Innovation Award. The award recognizes Tulane for achievement in finding powerful solutions…
Haley Burns (Tulane, '15), a Changemaker Institute alumna, took her venture, Fund 17, full time after graduation. Fund 17 creates livelihoods by empowering community entrepreneurs via training and resources to…
Taylor Partner PlayBuild is an NGO focused on transforming under-utilized urban spaces into exciting kid-friendly environments for play and learning. Full press release below. From the Playground to the Neutral Ground Together, We…
An intentional living community where homeless youth in New Orleans have a safe place to live, learn and work. A community gardening project that aims to alleviate the mental health…
What Is The Phyllis M. Taylor Center For Social Innovation And Design Thinking? On "Notes from New Orleans" on WWNO, Director Kenneth Schwartz spoke with Sharon Litwin to answer the…
When The Cookbook Project (CBP) – a food literacy non-profit – taught skeptical students in the Lower 9th Ward at Our School at Blair Grocery how to make marinated mushroom…
Fund 17 is a nonprofit social enterprise hoping to create a new economic system of opportunity in New Orleans. The organization is dedicated to combating opportunity inequality in the 17…