On Friday, we put the final, final touches on the syllabus for the new online course to be offered at the Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences at CWRU. As some of you know, I’ve been working with Mark Chupp and the developers at 2U on this course since April 2020. The course uses challenging readings and real world examples to help prepare students to work with communities to build power from the ground up.

Happy to report that all course design work and filming has been completed for a new, masters-level online course at @MandelSchool—Strategic Power Building with Communities! The course presents frameworks for power and strategy and guides students through various models and methods for building power from the ground up. The course features many interviews with those building power in communities addressing issues of health, safety, freedom and justice.

We’re honored and excited to being work with Fernside : A Center for Grieving Children on an external capacity building evaluation to strengthen its operations, activities, identify areas of opportunity, and establish a framework for sustained continuous improvement efforts moving forward