CityDay, honoring Martin Luther King through community service
Sarah Bouchard, Community Engagement Administrator, Lauren O'Brien, Graduate Assistant
| Jan/19 | Tue | 09:00AM-05:00PM | Cambridge, various, Times vary depending on site |
Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/11
CityDays is a series of one-day volunteer opportunities for all members of the MIT community. All students, faculty, and staff are encouraged to engage with the Cambridge and Greater Boston community by devoting a few hours to volunteer with CityDays throughout the year. In conjunction with MIT’s mission, the CityDays campaign aims to work for the “betterment of humankind” by connecting those who are a part of the MIT community with local organizations who need volunteers.
For this event we will be partnering with the Greater Boston Food Bank, Community Servings, Science Club for Girls, and the Community Art Center. Times will vary depending on site.
Sign-up here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/citydays-jan-19-honoring-martin-luther-king-day-through-community-service-tickets-19456606233
CityDays is a great fit for those who would like to give back and learn about the community, but who may not have time for a long-term volunteer commitment. The Priscilla King Gray Public Service Center handles all of the logistics for the day, including a meal, travel, and service placements. All you have to do is sign up and show up with an ethic for service. Participants may sign up as individuals or as groups. We encourage student groups to utilize CityDays as a pre-planned day of service.
Sponsor(s): Priscilla King Gray Public Service Center
Contact: Sarah Bouchard, W20-549, (617) 253-8968, citydays-staff@mit.edu
Innovation for Impact Workshop Series
Keely Swan, IDEAS Global Challenge Administrator, Josh Ellsworth, Lecturer in Sustainable International Development
Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/19
Limited to 30 participants
Attendance: Participants welcome at individual sessions
Are you working to solve a pressing social, health or environmental problem and hope to develop a game-changing innovation?
Have you been working on an exciting innovation and are looking for places where it could create positive change?
If so, join us for this workshop series. Over 3 days students, guest experts and workshop leaders will learn from each other by critically exploring case studies, concepts, and tools for effective innovation design such as problem framing, mapping the social and policy context, pitching ideas, building an effective multi-disciplinary team, and learning reflective practice. Throughout we will explore practical skills, as well as fundamental questions such as: When is an innovation needed? What are potential adverse effects of an innovation on stakeholders, institutions and markets? How can we take a participatory problem-solving approach to the innovation process?
The workshops will build on each other; participants are encouraged to attend all three sessions, but participation for one day is welcome. The workshops are open to the MIT community and will be of particular interest to teams preparing for the IDEAS Global Challenge, the Water Innovation and Food & Ag Innovation Prizes, and others working on social entrepreneurship ventures at D-Lab, DUSP, and other engineering depts. The workshop is also open to non-MIT teammates working on these projects.
Register here: http://goo.gl/forms/h9pn6Zx00f
Sponsor(s): Priscilla King Gray Public Service Center
Contact: Keely Swan, W20-549, 617 715-5474, KCSWAN@MIT.EDU
| Jan/20 | Wed | 01:00PM-04:00PM | 56-162 |
We can all agree that there are many problems in the world. How do we know what to focus on? And how do we clearly convey the problem to others? In this session, we will explore tools to help us identify and define problems and consider how that framing affects our understanding of the situation. We will explore the importance of a clear problem statement to innovation design and making a successful pitch. Register here.
Keely Swan - IDEAS Global Challenge Administrator, Josh Ellsworth - Lecturer in Sustainable International Development
| Jan/21 | Thu | 01:00PM-04:00PM | 56-162 |
An innovation may meet or solve a real need, but the context of a particular cultural, market, legal, funding, and policy environment will all influence whether the innovation takes hold. We will work with tools to help us conceptualize these complex scenarios for our own projects and will learn from past teams about how their projects played out in the real world. Register here.
Keely Swan - IDEAS Global Challenge Administrator, Josh Ellsworth - Lecturer in Sustainable International Development
| Jan/22 | Fri | 01:00PM-04:00PM | 56-162 |
Whose vision and knowledge inform the innovation process? Will the innovation be developed in a lab by a few people and then rolled out? Who do you need on your team to lend a range of perspectives? Can innovation be a collaborative process with the users and beneficiaries that produces effective ideas while empowering people at the same time? We will explore these questions, relevant tools & strategies. Register.
Keely Swan - IDEAS Global Challenge Administrator, Josh Ellsworth - Lecturer in Sustainable International Development
Pre-med volunteering: spice up your resume and do something meaningful (and maybe even earn a paycheck!)
Alison Hynd, Director for Programs, Chiara Magini, Community Employment Administrator, Sarah Bouchard, Community Engagement Administrator, Meaghan Shea, Prehealth Advisor
| Jan/21 | Thu | 02:00PM-03:00PM | 4-149 |
Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/20
Are you pre-med or considering a health career?
Do you want to do something meaningful to fulfill the med school application service requirement?
Are you interested in funded community service options?
Do you worry that your current activities won't stand out in a sea of similar applications?
Then this session is for you!
Staff from the Priscilla King Gray Public Service Center and Prehealth Advising will present options for meaningful health-related community service activities in the Boston area and beyond. You'll learn about cohort-based programs, individual volunteering resources, funding possibilities, and get help identifying the opportunity that works for you.
And we want to learn from you! Come ready to tell us what you want to do and how we can help.
Sponsor(s): Priscilla King Gray Public Service Center, Global Education and Career Development
Contact: Alison Hynd, W20-549, 617 258-0691, HYND@MIT.EDU
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