Fall Semester Course
ACC 603 – Taking Impact to Scale
This course answers the persistent question of how do you scale solutions and achieve long term systemic community change. You will learn a new model of growth that creates positive momentum and mutually reinforcing projects, movements, groups and communities to engage more people. The accompanying course to ACC 601, you will finish this course with a detailed plan to scale a community project complete with evidence gathering, monitoring and evaluation tools as well as a set of localized key indicators of sustainable growth.
- Develop a new conceptual framework of scaling growth and impact
- Design a plan to take a project to scale that harnesses pre-existing resources
- Utilize measurement tools to foster evidence-based decision making
- Map locally specific key indicators to monitor growth
- Create a detailed action plan to scale a community success
The goal is for students to become innovative community leaders to develop new ways to scale solutions to old problems while learning from a practitioner’s perspective.
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Daniel Taylor has been engaged in social change and conservation for four decades with a focus on building international cooperation to achieve ambitious projects. He founded the nine Future Generations organizations worldwide (including the accredited Future Generations University). He also founded and led The Mountain Institute. In 1985, after providing the scientific explanation for the yeti, he led creating Nepals Makalu-Barun National Park, then, in close partnership with the Tibet Autonomous Region, Chinas Qomolangma (Everest) National Nature Preserve and Four Great Rivers Nature Preserve.. Read More
Dr. Daniel Taylor
Professor Equity & Empowerment (Social Change)
About our Learning Model
Future Generations University utilizes a unique blended learning model. Our programs combine different streams of instruction to adapt to students’ learning styles and foster community-based learning. All courses include face-to-face (either in person or via Zoom Video-Conferencing) and online components, and are complemented by applied fieldwork in communities (called Community Labs).
Rich while Remote Learning: Small Live-online Classes with Practitioner-Faculty and Peers around the world and across the US. Applied Practical Assignments that center around your community work. Mobile-first Course Materials and Online Resources.