+Acumen offers the largest library of free and low-cost online courses for social change-makers. We are proud to have built these courses in partnership with world-class organizations and thinkers, so that you have access to the best tools and frameworks needed to create social change.
Social Start-Up:
Human-Centered Design
Operations
Social Start-Up:
- Elizabeth Gilbert’s Creativity Workshop
- Social Entrepreneurship 101: Discovering Your Passion & Path to Change the World
- Design Kit: The Course For Human-Centered Design
- Design Kit: Prototyping
- Business Models for Social Enterprise
- Financial Modeling for the Social Sector
- Lean Startup Principles for Social Impact
- Lean Data Approaches to Measure Social Impact
- Making Sense of Social Impact: Acumen’s Building Blocks for Impact Analysis (Entendiendo el Impacto Social: la forma en que Acumen mide y analiza el impacto social)
- Seth Godin’s Leadership Workshop
- Krista Tippett on the Art of Conversation
- Chris Anderson on Public Speaking
- Al Pittampalli on Persuadable Leadership
- Readings that Matter: Martin Luther King’s Letter from Birmingham Jail
- Adaptive Leadership: Mobilizing for Change
- Storytelling for Change (Contar Historias Para el Cambio)
- In the Name of Identity: Violence and the Need to Belong
- Design Kit: Facilitator’s Guide
- Networking Leadership 101: Building Your Core Professional Network
- Systems Practice: An Approach to Move from Impossible to Impact
Human-Centered Design
- Design Kit: The Course For Human-Centered Design
- Design Kit: Prototyping
- Design Kit: Facilitator’s Guide
Operations
- Dan Ariely on Changing Customer Behavior
- Marketing to the Bottom of the Pyramid
- Board Strategy for Social Enterprise
- Access to Capital for Women: Capturing Opportunities to Grow Your Business
In this specialization you will learn how to create societal impact through Social Entrepreneurship. Social Entrepreneurship describes the discovery and sustainable exploitation of opportunities to create social change. We will introduce you to examples of Social Entrepreneurship and guide you through the process of establishing a venture to address a social or environment problem. You will form of team and study a problematic issue to learn more about the source of the problem. We will equip you with frameworks identifying opportunities, support your team, and outlining your idea. You will develop your idea and iterate on your business model throughout the Specialization, and conclude with completing a business plan.
We regularly run free webinars hosted by experts in various fields to help social entrepreneurs. All our 2013 webinars can be found here. We hope you will join us for our 2014 series, the details of which will be announced soon. For more information,
