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Interview with Ricky Shi

Sep 3rd, 2024

We thought it would be fun to introduce you to Ricky Shi, who worked on our team Summer 2024 and brought so much talent and joy!

Born and raised in Shanghai China, he left to attend high school in Connecticut. When he was thinking about a career from an early age, he loved music and assumed he would want to pursue a course somewhere that connected him to music. That brought him to UCLA for college as they have such a strong music program.

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Campaign Readiness

Aug 16th, 2024

FREE self-assessment

Use this testing tool to help determine your readiness for a capital campaign and to highlight the areas you will want to focus on in the near term.

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What Makes A Great Leader

Aug 2nd, 2024

The current emerging workforce is looking for an environment where people care. They care about nonprofits (our core). They care about each other. They care about their work-life balance.

New science research is breaking apart what we used to think bosses should be and opening new awareness of what healthy work life is.

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Board of Directors Self-Assessment

Jul 17th, 2024

It's a FREE assessment!!

How well is your Board of Directors performing for your organization? These 34 important questions will give you the answer.

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Exploring Creativity with Synesthesia: An Interview with Wesley Trisnadi

Jun 14th, 2024

Happy to be introducing Wesley Trisnadi, our treasured Lead AR/VR Designer here at Change Lab. We were pretty excited to find that you had made a TedTalk when you were only 17 about what Synesthesia is and, more so, how it added such value to your creative journey. Thank you for letting us share it with our audience. The background of how you got involved in doing the talk is so interesting. Tell us about it if you would.

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Our DEI 2023 Report

Feb 4th, 2024

Eager to learn about how we're fostering diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) within our company? Check our 2023 report.

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People Focused Curriculum

Jan 10th, 2024

Gamification in learning is a people-focused curriculum structure that seeks to transform the way that you absorb and implement new information (Lee, J.J. & Hamme, J. 2011). Change Lab is incorporating years of research done in the gamification field into courses that will harness the motivational power of games and apply it to real-world problems.

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Gamification in Education

Jan 5th, 2024

What is it? Why is it applicable? How does it work? What are the benefits? How should it be applied?

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The Cognitive Aspects of Gamified Learning

Apr 22nd, 2022

Qetsia Nkulu was an intern that we had the pleasure of working with during Fall Quarter 2021. Check out this paper she wrote about her time at Change Lab and the significance of gamified learning in today's day and age!

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Interview with Garen Staglin

Mar 2nd, 2022

Sitting down to interview Garen Staglin about the journey that he and his wife, Shari, have taken over the past thirty years to find the right approach and the right organization to express all their interests in the mental health field, it is clear that their scope is big. Very Big. Their interests are bigger than most imagine. These two are on the move for mental health and support for mental health may never be the same because of them.

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Agents of Change

Sep 4th, 2021

In this 6 part series podcast, Nancy Brimhall and Ed Lin, two individuals with long and storied careers in the non-profit sector, interview entrepreneurs and innovators who have been apart of, or even initiated, major changes in their respective fields. This series is brought to you by Change Lab, a new gamified course for non-profit workers to help teach methods on how to develop and maintain relationships with donors. Available on Spotify, iHeart Radio, Apple Podcasts, and SoundCloud.

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Fundraising in Economic and Social Change

April 2020

We care about the nonprofit community and know many organizations who are struggling and worried about what to do next. We just prepared this presentation that may help.

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Tell Your Story

Jan 25th, 2020

Here at Change Lab, we have one goal in common: to help others. As a company dedicated to raising the bar for fundraising training and striving to help others be the best they can be in the nonprofit industry, we constantly find ourselves being inspired by the people in our daily lives. We know that everyone has their own unique way of sharing the love, and we want you to share that story with us!

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