Taylor Impact 2022-2023
Throughout the year the Taylor Team has been working collectively to foster greater social impact and empower changemakers on campus and in the New Orleans community. Check out our annual report.
Ashoka Changemaker Summit Helps Weave Our Future
The following is a blog post by Dr. Laura Murphy: Changemakers are already (re)making the future. Check out the 2021 Ashoka Changemaker Summit, “a global milestone to share cutting-edge ideas…
New Taylor Center publication from the Research & Scholarship team brings complexity thinking to sports-based youth development organizations aiming for system change
In an article for the Journal of Strategic Innovation & Sustainability titled “The Value of an Ecosystem-Based Approach to Organizational Sustainability: The Case of a Hybrid Sports-Based Youth Development Social…
Insights from ISIRC following Ida
In this post, we are reporting out on the International Social Innovation Research Conference (ISIRC) 2021. ISIRC is normally a major fall event for the research & scholarship team, but given Hurricane Ida, dealing with…
Taylor Center Releases New Monograph: A Map of the Landscape of Social Innovation Theories
If you are curious to learn more about the field of ‘social innovation’ and make sense of divergent perspectives, arguments, paradigms, and language surrounding this theme, the Taylor Provocation #3…
Taylor Center Co-Organizes Conversation on Applying a Social Innovation Lens to Community-Engaged Scholarship
On Friday, April 9, 2021, the Taylor Center partnered with the Tulane Center for Public Service and the Tulane University Mellon Program for Community-Engaged Scholarship to host a panel of Mellon Program alumni to…
First Social Innovation Conversation of Fall 2020: ISIRC Recap by Taylor Scholars
At the Taylor Center's first Social Innovation Conversation of Fall 2020, our speakers gave a recap for individual presentations at ISIRC 2020 in the "DT & Beyond", "Hybrid Enterprises", and…
Taylor Research Team Presents in Glasgow
What happens when philosophers, social scientists, designers, and social entrepreneurs start talking? New ideas for change, I hope. In early September 2019, I traveled to Glasgow, Scotland to attend the…
How Might We Weather the Storm Season?
A Team-based Introductory Design Workshop Last Friday, about 18 participants came from Tulane and local community to join our final “Design Thinking and Donuts” of the year for a Team…