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There Are No Urban Design Courses on Race and Justice, So We Made Our Own Syllabus

Black students at Harvard’s Graduate School of Design say there are no design courses that consider race and justice. Here’s an outline for one.

There Goes the ‘Hood, by Lance Freeman, 2006

Fair and Healthy Land Use: Environmental Justice and Planning, by Craig Anthony Arnold, 2007

Aesthetics of Equity, by Craig Wilkins, 2007

Structural Inequality: Black Architects in the United States, by Victoria Kaplan, 2006

The Crisis of the African-American Architect: Conflicting Cultures of Architecture and (Black) Power, by Melvin Mitchell , 2002

Urban Planning and the African-American Community, by June Manning Thomas, 1997

Redevelopment and Race: Planning a Finer City in Postwar Detroit, June Manning Thomas, 1997

Planning Atlanta, by Harley F. Etienne and Barbara Faga, 2015  

The Black Metropolis in the 21st Century: Race, Power, and the Politics of Place, edited by Robert Bullard, 2007

Growing Smarter:  Achieving Livable Communities, Environmental Justice, and Regional Equity, edited by Robert Bullard, 2007

Just Sustainabilities: Development in an Unequal World, edited by Julian Agyeman, Robert D. Bullard and Bob Evans, 2003

Race, Poverty, and American Cities, by John Charles Boger, 1993

Black Metropolis: A Study of Negro Life in a Northern City, by St. Clair Drake and Horace R. Cayton, 1962

Everything from David Harvey

The Philadelphia Negro, by W.E.B. Dubois, 1896  

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Home - Equity Project | NJDC

The Equity Project is an initiative to ensure that lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) youth in juvenile delinquency courts are treated with dignity, respect, and fairness. The Equity Project examines issues of sexual orientation, gender identity, and gender expression (SOGIE) that impact youth during the entire delinquency process, ranging from arrest through post-disposition.

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Understanding First Year Students' Motivations for Social Justice Engagement

This article addresses common challenges faced by social justice educators when working with first year students. Prevalent issues including social isolation, engagement, and critical thinking skills are noted as well as practical strategies

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Social Justice Resources

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This is a comprehensive (but not exhaustive) list of books, blogs, articles, videos, and other materials about social justice and related subjects that I care about, such as mental health, sex and dating, atheism, science literacy, and current events.

I decided to create this list after realizing that my own blog has little in the way of 101-type of material, and I want to have a way to direct people who ask me those sorts of questions, especially when they concern subjects with which I’m not well-acquainted. Hopefully this will help you find what you’re looking for.

I have personally read almost all of the resources on this list, and those that I haven’t read have been recommended to me by trusted sources. That said, I can’t promise that they are flawless. Some I’ve included with a caveat. Also, while I’ve added a trigger warning to materials that are particularly difficult, keep in mind that everything in a certain category may contain triggering material related to that category.

Links that are particularly good for newcomers to social justice are marked with an asterisk (*). (via freethoughtblogs.com)

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THE BOOTCAMP BOOTLEG

The Bootcamp Bootleg is an overview of some of our most-used tools. The guide was originally intended for recent graduates of our Bootcamp: Adventures in Design Thinking class. But we’ve heard from folks who’ve never been to the d.school that have used it to create their own introductory experience to design thinking.  The Bootcamp Bootleg is more of a cook book than a text book, and more of a constant work-in-progress than a polished and permanent piece.  This resource is free for you to use and share—and we hope you do.

You can download the entire Bootcamp Bootleg here.

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Design for Social Impact: Workbook, comprises a series of worksheets grouped by goals, tools, and plans to help design firms clarify their intentions, starting point, and action items as they build a portfolio of social impact projects.

Ideo Design for Social Impact Workbook can be downloaded here

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The National Black Child Development Institute (NBCDI) is excited to share our newest publication! From the foreword by Barbara Bowman of the Erikson Institute to a closing essay by David Johns, Executive Director of the White House Initiative on Educational Excellence for African-Americans, Being Black Is Not a Risk Factor: A Strengths-Based Look at the State of the Black Child is designed to challenge the prevailing discourse about Black children–one which overemphasizes limitations and deficits and does not draw upon the considerable strengths, assets and resilience demonstrated by our children, families and communities. Click here to learn more about this fascinating, new publication. 

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350.org is building a global climate movement. Our online campaigns, grassroots organizing, and mass public actions are led from the bottom up by thousands of volunteer organizers in over 188 countries.

Check out their climate change organizers tool kit, the resources seem applicable to most topics!

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NationBuilder

NationBuilder is the world's first Community Organizing System: an accessible, affordable, complete software platform that helps leaders grow and organize.

NationBuilder is a software platform that combines your people database, website, and communication tools like email, text messaging, and social media—all in one. Accessible and affordable, NationBuilder helps people all over the world create more meaningful relationships. Whether you’re an author, activist, small business owner, or politician, we provide the tools to build a community around whatever it is you were meant to do. 

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Dialogue: A Virtual Workshop is a series of 12 videos sharing the basics of the Public Conversations Project’s approach to dialogue. We have trained thousands of others in our approach, and we have always shared our text resources online for free. Now, with the support of the JAMS Foundation, we are pleased to bring you our first video resource.

Our work draws on family therapy and several other disciplines as well as more than twenty years of experience using dialogue as a tool to transform conflict and rebuild damaged communities. This series talks about the nature of conflict and the power of dialogue to shift destructive patterns, while outlining the process of building a dialogue. From understanding the importance of participant preparation to developing the right questions to ask in a dialogue, these videos illustrate PCP’s approach—and the principles behind it.

Why Watch Dialogue: A Virtual Workshop?

Your community is facing a difficult conflict. This resource can help you determine if the PCP approach to dialogue is right for your community, and can serve as a guide should you choose to plan and facilitate a dialogue.

You’re a conflict resolution practitioner who wants to incorporate PCP’s approach into your own work. You can adapt what you see to your context and learn more about specifics by exploring the supplemental resources included.

You’re a college professor, consultant or trainer and want to teach about PCP’s approach. You can show video clips in class, assign them for home viewing, use the exercises to extend learning and have students explore the supplemental resources for more depth.

You took PCP’s signature workshop, Power of Dialogue, and you want a refresher.

The Guide to Dialogue: A Virtual Workshop: Each video is accompanied by a set of summaries, exercises and discussion questions to make it a more effective teaching tool. These materials will be especially valuable to those using the videos in a group or class setting.

Learning more: You’ll notice that each video has multiple references to information found in the Guide.

Learn More references will take you to a Web page or PDF with expanded information.

Read More references will recommend a citation for an article or book chapter that will expand upon the thinking behind our work.

Expert View references provide you with more in-depth content from one of PCP’s five founders.

There are also references to Public Conversations’ previously published guide,Fostering Dialogue Across Divides.

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impossible.com - is a new website and app that encourages people to do things for others for free. People can post wishes of things that they want or need help with and offer what they can give – can be things or skills. Impossible shows these wishes and offers and people can connect with one another. You can also create thank you posts to send people.

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LEAN FOR SOCIAL CHANGE

LEAN FOR SOCIAL CHANGE

COURSE PARTNER:ACUMEN

START:

JUNE 23, 2014

END:

AUGUST 17, 2014

GROUP SIZE:

4

HRS/WEEK:

5

REGISTER BY:

JUNE 22, 2014

GO TO COURSE!

LEAN FOR SOCIAL CHANGE

Lean for Social Change is a 8-week course inspired by the Lean Launchpad Class pioneered by Steve Blank. In this course you will learn how to test, validate, and adapt your vision of change to ensure you’re creating the greatest impact and investing your time in something that truly meets your stakeholder’s and customer’s needs. 

Lean for Social Change draws on the latest thinking in Silicon Valley on how to build companies that maximize customer value while minimizing wasted effort and makes it relevant for social innovators.

The lean approach relies on validated learning, experimentation, and iterative product releases to shorten product development cycles, measure progress, and gain valuable customer feedback. In an environment where the majority of startups fail, lean principles aim to give startups a better chance of success by helping entrepreneurs learn more quickly what works and discard what doesn’t.

These principles aren’t just for high tech startups but tools for life for any innovator, especially those determined to solve the world’s toughest social problems.

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YOU'LL LOVE THIS COURSE IF

You’re an aspiring or very early stage social entrepreneur/founding team member that is building an impact enterprise to tackle a specific issue of poverty in your local community

You’re looking to learn the lean mindset to drive a social change initiative in a larger organization (For example, you could be an employee within an established business, public sector organization or non-profit)

You just completed the Human-Centered Design for Social Innovation course and are ready to take your project to the next level

WHAT YOU'LL LEARN

By the conclusion of this course you will:

Have a framework for taking a social impact idea and assessing its potential for creating long-lasting impact and achieving financial sustainability

Understand how to create and validate a business model intended to create social impact

Develop a “lean mindset” for tackling problems of poverty that can be applied to other settings in the corporate, public, and NGO sectors

HOW THIS COURSE WORKS

This is a practical but intensive class where you will learn by doing. In this course you will:

Be expected to come with an idea for a new model to solve a problem of poverty

Work in teams learning how to take your idea and assess its potential for achieving long-lasting impact and financial sustainability.

Learn how to use a tool called The Business Model Canvas to brainstorm each part of a business and Customer Development, a systematic approach that forces you to get out of the building, to see whether anyone other than you would actually want to use your product/service.

Along the way you’ll have the opportunity to recruit a mentor from Acumen’s community to accompany you through the course, And at the end, the top-ranked teams will get a chance to pitch their ideas for feedback to a virtual panel of social impact investors.

You can take this course by yourself but it will be a lot of work. We highly recommend you form a team of 3-4 people, preferably located in the same place. You may enter the course with a team or find a team using the course platform once the course starts.

THE TEACHING TEAM

CHIEF INSTRUCTOR

Sasha Dichter, Chief Innovation Officer, Acumen

Sasha is responsible for growing the impact of Acumen’s work through its investments in leaders and also oversees Acumen’s leadership programs: Global Fellows, Regional Fellows, and +Acumen; Acumen’s metrics and understanding impact; as well as resource mobilization from Acumen’s global Partner community. Sasha is also a noted speaker and blogger on generosity, philanthropy and social change, author of the Manifesto for Nonprofit CEOs, and the creator of Generosity Day. His talks have been featured on TED.com and at the DO Lectures. Sasha has been recognized as an Innovation Agent by Fast Company and as one of the top 10 Business Bloggers by Say 100 Media.

Before Acumen, Sasha worked at GE Money to expand financial offerings to underserved communities; and at IBM, spearheading the company’s corporate citizenship strategy and launching a leadership program for school administrators Sasha holds a BA from Harvard College, a Masters in Public Administration in International Development from Harvard’s Kennedy School and an MBA from Harvard Business School.

CHIEF MENTOR

Bob Dorf, Startup Coach & Co-Author of The Startup Owner’s Manual

A serial entrepreneur, Bob Dorf is likely the second most knowledgeable Customer Development expert on the planet, second only to its developer and Godfather, Steve Blank. Together the two spent nearly two years conceiving, outlining, drafting, rewriting, and revising the global bestseller, The Startup Owner’s Manual, now a business bestseller in the U.S. and many countries around the world.

Entrepreneurial since age 12, Dorf founded seven companies. Bob’s track record as a founder, as he says: “two home runs, two base hits, and three great tax losses.” Bob travels the world, helping startups, incubators, governments, and established corporations learn how to effectively deploy Customer Development process through speaking, workshops and hands-on Startup Boot Camps. He’s invested in or advised more than a score of start-ups and teaches Customer Development at Columbia Business School.

  ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

WORK LOAD:

10 hours per week 1-2 hours of that will be online watching videos/reading, the rest will include:

“Getting out of the building” to talk to 5-10 potential customers/beneficiaries, partners, domain experts per team member and gather real-world data;

Synthesizing what you learned;

Preparing your homework assignments. There are 5 assignments in total.

TECHNICAL REQUIREMENTS:

You need a computer that allows you to watch videos and the ability to upload your assignments which will be PowerPoint/video presentations.

STATEMENTS OF ACCOMPLISHMENT:

Subject to course completion (completion of all assignments), you will receive a Statement of Accomplishment from +Acumen.

QUESTIONS:

E-mail Jessica at plusacumen.courses(at)gmail.com

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Tracking words and dynamics in visual form, we make sense of complexity to create shared platforms for action.

http://dpict.info/

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Make a Pop-Up Museum

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[Image Description: A poster entitled “How to Build Community” and framed by bright drawings of people interacting and enjoying nature. Examples include: know your neighbors, greet people, have pot lucks, dance in the street, garden together, listen before your react to anger, mediate a conflict, seek to understand]

It was about a year ago that I first saw this poster hanging in the living room of one the coolest women I know and look up to. It’s one of the most beautiful things I’ve ever seen. The world would definitely be a better place if everyone kept these things in mind.

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