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Embodying Knowledge Practice Inside and Out:

A Strategy Course for Changemakers

Knowledge practice is a core capacity for a growing number of philanthropy professionals. This self-paced foundational course supports you in understanding knowledge practice and grounding your knowledge work in key principles and concepts to support positive change.

Objectives

In this course participants will:

  • Learn about key aspects of knowledge work in philanthropy.
  • Explore ways to effectively connect knowledge work to mission and change.
  • Identify entry points for activating knowledge action.
  • Examine ways to move from knowledge activity to knowledge strategy.
  • Move from challenges to strategic success.

Curriculum

Module One: Knowledge as Embodied Practice

  • Lesson 1: Infusing key concepts into knowledge work
  • Lesson 2: Distinguishing learning and knowledge to better connect to change
  • Lesson 3: Aligning knowledge work holistically — mind, body, spirit and mission
  • Lesson 4: Making shared meaning as social action

Module Two: Core Connections of Knowledge Work

  • Lesson 5: Recognizing data myths and truths
  • Lesson 6: Moving amidst various giving approaches
  • Lesson 7: Claiming knowledge work for change
  • Lesson 8: Aligning for success within your organization.

Module Three: Knowledge Trajectories and Starting Points for Knowledge Action

  • Lesson 9: Starting from approach
  • Lesson 10: Starting from program
  • Lesson 11: Starting from a call
  • Lesson 12: Starting from separation.

Module Four: Key Elements of Knowledge Strategy

  • Lesson 13: Ensuring legitimacy
  • Lesson 14: Questions for action
  • Lesson 15: Datamaking
  • Lesson 16: Understanding boundaries for lived experience.

Module Five: Components of Strategic Success

  • Lesson 17: Understanding resistance and power
  • Lesson 18: Connecting self-care to power
  • Lesson 19: Recognizing relational power
  • Lesson 20: Knowledge practice as action