Meet the 2020-21 Marla and Barry Beck Visiting Social Innovators
The Social Innovation and Change Initiative (SICI) is honored to announce the Marla and Barry Beck Visiting Social Innovators for the 2020-2021 academic year.
September 14, 2020
Meet the 2020 Cheng Fellows!
This year, Fellows are building community wealth, creating healthier communities, transforming healthcare systems, and re-imagining education.
September 1, 2020
“Wait and See” Mode
It takes courage and discipline to reaffirm and hold a positive vision for our society in the midst of chaos. It is this strength of vision that will fuel the work, even if we don’t know the exact way.
August 31, 2020
Transparent Gatekeeping
A new level of transparency is required. Here's how SICI is improving the transparency in our application process.
July 31, 2020
Getting Beyond Incrementalism
If we are not simply interested in innovation for its own sake, but in its potential to unlock positive and lasting social transformation, we must tie our work today to the movements that started before our time and will likely continue after we are gone.
June 30, 2020
New Beginnings
Applications for the next group of student social innovators to join the New World Social Innovation Fellowship are open.
May 31, 2020
Charting a Sustainable Future
Whether at the level of the self, organization, community, or planet, these colleagues have integrated sustainability into their COVID-19 action and planning.
April 30, 2020
COVID-19 Update From SICI
Since the reality of COVID hit our campus, we have been awestruck by the examples of innovation emerging from within our network of students, alumni, faculty colleagues, practitioners, and local government here in Massachusetts.
March 31, 2020
Proximate Work Is Effective Work
When we do our social impact work, and especially when we dedicate our lives to it, it can be difficult to remember that enthusiasm alone does not pass for fluency.
February 28, 2020
Navigating Through Complex Problems
In our SICI community, these resources have come up time and again as helpful for unpacking complex problems.
January 31, 2020