Social Innovation Resources for Educators and Independent Learners

The Center for Social Innovation offers free open-source assets for educating and empowering social innovators and their educators.

Open-Source Teaching Modules

Explore these resources designed to equip you to maximize the impact of your project or venture. You’ll find insights and frameworks spanning strategy development for social change, business modeling for both impact and financial returns, mitigating unintended consequences, and choosing a legal structure for a social-purpose business.

CSI educates insightful leaders for social and environmental change through teaching and curriculum. We support faculty in developing courses that are grounded in the fundamentals of social innovation: impact measurement, human-centered design, systems thinking, and cross-sector approaches.