Scholarships
Included in the price of the Institute are:
Friday’s opening plenary and reception, all the workshops and yoga breaks on Saturday with breakfast, lunch and dinner, and one-on-one coaching, a half-day workshop or a field trip on Sunday with breakfast and lunch.
Accomodations
Your ticket does not include accomodations. We have reserved a block of rooms at the Hampton Inn in Ithaca at a reduced rate of $169 a night. When you make your reservation, mention "FSLEI 2017" to get this group rate. This block rate ends October 10. You can learn about other lodging options, places to eat, and the beautiful sites of this area at www.visitithaca.com. Ithaca truly is gorges!
Featured Models and Tools:
Worker-Owned Cooperatives: Worker cooperatives are business entities that are owned and controlled by their members, the people who work in them. All cooperatives operate in accordance with the Cooperative Principles and Values. The two central characteristics of worker cooperatives are: (1) worker-members invest in and own the business together, and it distributes surplus to them and (2) decision-making is democratic, adhering to the general principle of one member-one vote.
Community Based Systems Dynamics: Community based system dynamics can help people frame problems, visualize the system, identify potential leverage points, develop skills for communicating system insights, analyze policies, and ultimately design more effective and sustainable solutions.
Theory of Change: The theory of change model focuses on the social change you intend to achieve. This model maps out the activities that will help you reach your impact goals, the ways to measure success, and how to strengthen what is working and reconsider what isn’t.
The Institute includes panels and workshops where you will:
Apply and evaluate leading models pivotal to the success of social ventures.
Know and incorporate elements of creating a collaborative, inclusive economy into their social ventures or areas of work.
Integrate the insights and know-how of experienced social entrepreneurs, peers and consultants.
Develop relationships that continue beyond the Institute with a diverse group of social entrepreneurs and people in key supporting sectors such as education, business, finance, policy, and community organizing.
Refund Policy
Co-sponsors:
This event would not be possible without the generous support of our co-sponsors: Entrepreneurship at Cornell, the Engaged Leadership Program at Cornell’s Office of Engagement Initiatives and the Park Foundation.
Kelly White, PMP has 20 years of experience in project management and operations, leading cross-functional teams in publishing, e-learning, online medical communication, software, health care, and nonprofit environments. She is the co-founder and principal consultant at Illume Projects LLC, a certified Women Business Enterprise (WBE) from New York State. Illume Projects specializes in helping busy nonprofit executives and small business owners save time and work more effectively.
As a certified Project Management Professional from the Project Management Institute (PMI) and a certified Lean Six Sigma Green Belt from Binghamton University, Kelly is committed to bringing teams, processes, and technology together to achieve positive results, continuous process improvement and meaningful, fun work.
Kelly is a former examiner for Partners in Performance Excellence, the state-based Baldrige Performance Excellence Program umbrella organization for New York, Massachusetts, Connecticut and Rhode Island. Kelly has a special interest in health care and is privileged to serve on the board of the Ithaca Free Clinic (operated by the Ithaca Health Alliance) and further its mission to facilitate access to health care for all with a focus on the needs of the uninsured.
Kelly is a past director of programs and current director of membership for the PMI Rochester – Ithaca branch. She is a member of the Leadership Tompkins class of 2015 and of the inaugural class of the Rev Ithaca Passenger to Pilot program for women entrepreneurs. Learn more at www.illumeprojects.com.