Let's Talk: Faith Communities Fighting Isolation
Faith leaders and communities, as uniquely powerful hubs of connection and belonging, have increasingly stepped up to combat the epidemic of social isolation, utilizing their deep-rooted networks to offer support and foster relationships. In fact, faith communities might be one of our most underutilized resources to combat this crisis.
Faith and Innovation in Turbulent Times: An introductory webinar on innovating for a better world
Join innoFaith and the the NYU Bronfman Center for an introductory webinar exploring how faith and innovation can help solve our world's most pressing issues. This webinar will introduce some key concepts in social innovation from our Certificate Course in Faith, Innovation, and Social Impact, a unique 10-week program tailored specifically to the field of faith-rooted leadership and designed to help promote change inside organizations and communities.
How Cogenerational Innovation Can Strengthen Faith Communities and Society
How can faith communities foster cogenerational innovation to create a better world? Join us to hear real-world examples of cogeneration in action within and across faith communities.
Parliament of the World's Religions Workshop: Innovation Leadership for Social Impact
Past event. innoFaith presented the following workshop at the 2023 Parliament of the World’s Religions in Chicago, IL, August 2023.
Faith leadership is changing. As clergy, lay leaders, and non-profit leaders in the 21st century, we face leading our organizations through rapidly emerging complexity, with significant challenges and opportunities. Our organizations are also rooted in communities experiencing that same complexity through new and evolving social challenges - climate change, gun violence, housing affordability, economic disparity, racial injustice, mental health, and more. As we seek to lead evolving organizations, serve evolving communities, and address evolving challenges, we need some new strategies and mindsets. We need to be able to innovate - to think about problems differently, to see new opportunities, to build new solutions. Leaders who serve with an innovation mindset stand to contribute exponentially – both in their organizations and in the community at large. Join us to learn some innovation mindsets and strategies to level up your ability to innovate for the good of humanity.
Course: NYU Certificate in Faith, Innovation, and Social Impact
As clergy, lay leaders, and civil society leaders in the 21st century, we face leading our organizations through rapidly emerging complexity, with significant challenges and opportunities. Our organizations are also rooted in communities experiencing that same complexity through new and evolving social challenges—climate change, gun violence, housing affordability, economic disparity, racial injustice, mental health crisis, and more. As we seek to lead evolving organizations, serve evolving communities, and address evolving challenges, we need some new strategies and mindsets. We need to be able to innovate—to think about problems differently, to see new opportunities, to build new solutions. Leaders who serve with an innovation mindset stand to contribute exponentially, both in their organizations and in the community at large.
Workshop & Conversation: How Can Faith Communities Support the Civic Capacity of Children?
As we enter the giving season, how can we make giving more meaningful for children? As faith communities, we try to teach children to look out for the needs of others, to empathize, to share what they have, to do what they can to make the world a better place for all people. But do our kids really know that they matter to their community? Our current practices of engaging kids in community are often outdated and unevenly focused on children of means. What is the future? Come learn, explore, and share your own insights about how to provide the right foundation, help all kids find their unique path, and then get out of the way!
The Next Sunday Summit
Past event.
WATCH VIDEO OF THE NEXT SUNDAY SUMMIT INTERVIEW WITH INNOFAITH FOUNDER, DANIELLE GOLDSTONE, HERE.
Access all 30 interviews on The Next Sunday Summit website.
This FREE 14-day virtual summit features interviews with 30 extraordinary leaders, spiritual teachers, healers, and changemakers, including innoFaith founder, Danielle Goldstone. Together we will reimagine the next form (or forms) of church & faith.
Building a Just + Loving Economy: Faith + Finance Webinar Series
innoFaith is a promotion partner for this event put on by our friends at Faith + Finance.
When billionaires are made richer in a pandemic while millions face evictions, we know in our hearts something is wrong. It doesn’t have to be this way. But what are the alternatives? How can we help build a more just and loving economy that works for ALL of us?
Join the Faith + Finance community as we explore how the economy works and how it can become an expression of our deepest values. This series is organized into four sessions that build in succession as we dive deep into what it means to put spirit and ethics into action.
All sessions are free to attend, but you will need to register to access the recordings.
Soularize 2021
Past event
We are thrilled to be a partner for Soularize 2021! Soularize is a global learning party, a collaborative community built just for spiritual innovators. As faith communities around the world begin to envision a post-pandemic society, we need to engage, connect, and unleash collaboration and creativity. Our desire is to provide a space to interact, discover new and diverse voices, build relationships, and grow resources to help encourage and launch projects.
innoFaith will be a partner for the Soularize Start-up Pitch Gallery. We invite you to submit innovative concepts within this year’s theme, Humane Spirituality. Through this theme, we will explore the question: How might we reframe issues to inspire human dignity to all through the pursuit and practice of empathy, equity, and inclusivity?
Soularize 2021 blends local and global engagement. Our app is your key to participating from anywhere in the world. During the months leading up to Soularize LIVE, you’ll have the opportunity to present ideas, ask questions, and collaborate with a diversity of innovators. Then in October, we’ll gather as a community. Join Soularize LIVE in Southern California, watch with your local Village, or stream our content online from wherever you are.
JOIN THE PARTY!
Why Pitch Your Start-up at Soularize?
Past event
innoFaith is thrilled to partner with Soularize 2021, a convening for spiritual innovators. Join us and other partners on July 29 at 1 pm ET for a webinar on submitting a start-up pitch.
Do you have a unique business idea, community project, or non-profit mission that needs support or exposure? Join changemaker leaders from Ideation, innoFaith and Glean Network to learn what it takes to bring an idea to life and put together your best Start-Up Pitch to reach your goals.
Over $10,000 value in prizes and support will be awarded! Prize announcements will be made during this live webinar.
Top participants will be invited to present live to our panel of Advisors in Fullerton, CA, on October 21-23, 2021.
You will also learn during this one hour conversation:
What are the main ingredients of a powerful pitch
How this year’s theme, Humane Spirituality, impacts the contest, as we are invited to explore the question: How might we reframe issues to inspire human dignity to all, through the pursuit and practice of empathy, equity, and inclusivity?
What you need to enter the Start-Up Pitch Gallery
Register HERE for your invitation.
Find out more about Start-Ups
Changemaker Playbook: How can people and communities of faith lead in a world of explosive change?
WATCH VIDEO OF THIS PAST EVENT HERE.
In his new book, Changemaker Playbook: The New Physics of Leadership in a World of Explosive Change, Henry De Sio introduces a new leadership framework for a world defined by change. Through the stories of changemakers across age and geography, as well as his own stories from serving in the Obama campaign and White House and working with the world’s largest network of changemakers at Ashoka, De Sio shows us how to equip ourselves for a world where everyone leads. Join us for a virtual conversation with Henry and two faith sector leaders, Stephen Lewis and Rabbi Elan Babchuck, about what the principles in Changemaker Playbook mean for people and communities of faith.
Brought to you by: innoFaith, Ashoka’s Faith-Inspired Changemakers Initiative, Forum for Theological Exploration, and Glean Network.
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Interfaith Youth Innovators Summit
Read about this past event here.
The Interfaith Youth Innovators Summit is a weekend retreat for teenagers, ages 13 through 19, created to bring youth together across boundaries to explore how to become changemakers and help make our communities better. This is for teens of all faiths and no faith that care deeply about addressing the problems and injustices around them. During the weekend, you will engage with peers from diverse backgrounds to learn from each other and explore how to partner together to make the world better. And you will learn how to use design thinking techniques to develop and test ideas for change.
Brought to you by: innoFaith, National United Methodist Church, and the International Center for Religion and Diplomacy.
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Putting Peace First: 7 Commitments to Change the World
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Watch video of this past event here.
How can DC faith communities support young people to change our city? For 25 years, Peace First has been helping young people change the world. Come hear from Peace First founder Eric Dawson and DC’s own young changemaker and Peace First Fellow Yasmine Arrington about how young people can lead change. Eric Dawson is CEO of Peace First, which he co-founded 25 years ago as a student at Harvard University. He has recently published Putting Peace First: 7 Commitments to Change the World. He’s also a Unitarian minister and a chaplain to social innovators. Yasmine Arrington is CEO of ScholarCHIPS, which she founded as a DC high school student in 2010 to support children of incarcerated parents. She is a recent graduate of Howard University School of Divinity.
Brought to you by: innoFaith, Peace First, FaithJustice Foundation, and Swedenborg Center.