A RECIPE FOR CHANGE {LAB}
And, wow, we made a real cookbook. Order here!Food always plays a part in all good thinking. And to prove it, that's how Change Lab started. Eating with colleagues in Boston first and then Los Angeles - first gathering Sidra Durst in NYC, Tobey Fossey and Susan Webber from Boston and then adding Lili Rossi, Matt Wheeler, Yeni Melchiore, Sasha Preston-Suni, Purvi Rami and Ed Lin in LA -- we talked and talked about how to create better outcomes for nonprofits.
How do people learn? Why can't we find a stronger way to teach that gives learning an A+ for each and every nonprofit. How could it adapt for cultural and international differences, learning styles, and pace at the learner's speed?
What we struggled with is that each of us could do a pretty good training, and some had done what they thought were great trainings, but it really wasn't sticking long enough to create real change: to better the bottom line. Sliding back was a serious problem. We were still talking about lectures and videos and books.
Hit pause.
So, some serious deep digging began and we could see that research was screaming about gamification in higher ed and primary grades. We were onto something completely new.
Thank you to the colleagues who got the pot boiling. It's been pretty great to have your support.
Our Logo
So, when we first met Ki Han he was the Art Director at Zynga, the huge online and mobile gaming company, headquartered in San Francisco. After we picked his brain in numerous meetings about how one develops an online game (think Change Lab educational courses) we jumped in. As part of his incredibly kind nature, he took on designing us a logo.
We said “Oh, it should be about energy, and change, and moving forward” and all those things. And, what came back was a beautiful image that some folks around here saw as a butterfly: metamorphosis. What could be better?
Now, the only weird thing was that someone on the team was afraid of butterflies. Hilarious is the only response. Anyway, we still see it as about moving forward.
Ki, by the way, has built a pretty impressive career along the way, with a stunning range of design skills, from UI to UX, from game design to data visualizations for business intelligence software and is now Sr. Design Director at Pivot.
Mission & Values
Our Mission
Innovation in nonprofit education for the greater good.
Our Values
- Turn crazy ideas into brilliant impact
- Dedication to innovation and learning
- Commitment to best-in-class standards
- Foster teams as engines of ideas
- Promote diversity, equity, and inclusion in work opportunities
- Accelerate nonprofit learning through technology
- Empower the nonprofit community to build greater revenue
Meet Our Team
Leadership
Advisors
Scholarship
We've invested years into connecting the best of the gaming experience with highly informative, best-in-practice, retention-heavy, learning to deliver Change Lab to you.
We are deeply committed to elevating the efficiency of learning, decentralizing and personalizing institutional teaching, integrating more accessible learning media, and increasing successful nonprofits. It's real life practice refined from the in-depth knowledge of seasoned experts.
As we begin, we know at our core are some pretty great nonprofit people who just want to do the right thing for learning. And, that means making all of this cool stuff accessible to everyone. To do that, the first place we wanted to start was to offer a scholarship (from our tiny start-up funds, destined to grow). If this would help you, or anyone you know, please utilize this form and let us know.
Keep being curious about the world and how you can make a difference. We do. We'll help you along the way as best we can.
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So, when we first met Ki Han he was the Art Director at Zynga, the huge online and mobile gaming company, headquartered in San Francisco. After we picked his brain in numerous meetings about how one develops an online game (think Change Lab educational courses) we jumped in. As part of his incredibly kind nature, he took on designing us a logo.
We said “Oh, it should be about energy, and change, and moving forward” and all those things. And, what came back was a beautiful image that some folks around here saw as a butterfly: metamorphosis. What could be better?
Now, the only weird thing was that someone on the team was afraid of butterflies. Hilarious is the only response. Anyway, we still see it as about moving forward.
Ki, by the way, has built a pretty impressive career along the way, with a stunning range of design skills, from UI to UX, from game design to data visualizations for business intelligence software and is now Sr. Design Director at Pivot.
