The Victor C. Alvarez Spark Innovation Award is open to all undergraduate and graduate Tulane University students that are pursuing a social venture idea. Students are eligible for up to $2,500 per academic year to move their ideas forward. Students…
The Changemaker Catalyst Award is open to all undergraduate and graduate Tulane University students interested in pursuing careers related to Social Innovation, Social Entrepreneurship, Design Thinking, and Changemaking. Students are eligible for up to $1,500 total over the course of…
Tulane University faculty, staff, and graduate students are invited to join the Growth Mindset Jam, a design sprint focused on Tulane University. The session will be facilitated by Lesley-Ann Noel, PhD. in partnership with the Taylor Center.
Through a design thinking exercise, session participants will practice the skills that are needed to foster a growth mindset, such as openness, creativity, flexibility, and comfort with ambiguity. Participation badges will be awarded.
The Changemaker Institute (CI) is a social venture accelerator for Tulane graduate students that deepens students’ understanding of social issues, connects them to local mentors and experts, and equips them with entrepreneurial tools to create a social enterprise.Learn About CI
Scholars, faculty, graduate students, community leaders, and other writers interested in the field of social innovation, changemaking, social justice, social impact, among other related subjects are invited to join this 4-week writing challenge.
Join the Taylor Center at this interactive discussion with two faculty members who became directors of nonprofit organizations. Dr. Mallory Monaco Caterine is a Professor of Practice in Classical Studies and a co-director and a founding member of Kallion, a non-profit organization whose mission is to design and develop communities around the study of humanities and unlock the human talent able to develop creative, benevolent, and lasting improvements to our common condition. Dr. Shannon Blady is a Professor of Practice at Tulane’s Teacher Preparation and Certification Program and the Executive Director of AfterCLASS, a non-profit whose mission is to provide professional, emotional, and social support to local educators and elevate the profession of teaching.
The Taylor Center's monthly Design Thinking Breakfast is a space to build community among those using design, design thinking, and related methods for social impact with some local flavor, particularly from the greater New Orleans area and the Gulf South.
The October guest host is Jacinda Walker, MFA. She is renowned for her work in design, diversity, research, and strategy and is the founder and creative director of designExplorr, a social enterprise whose mission addresses the diversity gap within the design profession.
A design thinking workshop exploring how to use (virtual) ethnography to understand human experiences of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Rebecca Otten will be a speaker in Ashoka U’s "Leading for Resilience and Relevance in Higher Ed", a two-part virtual series for educators and leaders in higher education seeking to harness the power of changemaking in the classroom and across campus.
Otten is a Professor of Practice and the Director of Strategy & Engagement at the Taylor Center, and the former director of the Tulane School of Architecture’s minor in Social Innovation and Social Entrepreneurship (SISE).
This is a workshop that explores poetry as a design research tool applicable in the current environment of a pandemic. Poetry Activism helps in engagement with communities, understanding their positive and negative experiences in a way that can lead to greater societal impact. The aim is to see poetry as a simple method of expression and integrate it as a source of creative and self-healing outlet that could potentially be used as resourceful data in research.
