Social Impact Courses and Certifications

Social Impact: Planning for Success

7 ratings

Use a nine-part framework to assess an organization’s social impact, identify risks, and plan for greater reach, sustainability, and scale.

• Independent
• 5 weeks, 1-2 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Free Certificate

Coursera

How to Conduct a Social Impact Assessment with SROI

21 ratings at Coursera

Learn to scope social impact assessments, map social, environmental, and economic impacts, and value outcomes using the Social Return on Investment (SROI) methodology.

• Coursera
• 1 hour 28 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

In this 4 hour course, you’ll learn more about the Lean Data mindset and how to scope your own lean data initiative.

• Acumen Academy
• 5 weeks, 3 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course

This course will introduce you to frameworks and practical tools for measuring the social impact of your company, organization, or initiative.

• Acumen Academy
• 6 weeks, 4-5 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course

Teaching Artistry for Social Impact

Develop a social impact project as a teaching artist: apply logic models, facilitation, scaffolding, storytelling, empathy and stakeholder maps, and ethical considerations to socially engaged creative practice.

• Kadenze
• 30 hours
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course

Social Impact Analysis

Learn to measure your organization's social impact by building an impact framework, developing a theory of change, and linking short- and long-term outcomes to quantifiable metrics.

• Acumen Academy
• 4 weeks
• Self-Paced
• Free Certificate

Lean Data Approaches to Measure Social Impact

Learn the Lean Data methodology to measure social impact: embed customer feedback into the customer journey, design surveys, pick phone or SMS technology, and act on results.

• Acumen Academy
• 5 weeks
• Self-Paced
• Free Certificate

JSWORLD Conference

What Engineers and Companies Can Do to Increase Social Impact

Explore how engineers and companies can drive social innovation and create transformational impact through a case study on Marina, presented by Liliana from CodeYourFuture, a UK-based social impact organization.

• YouTube
• 21 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Evaluation for the community services sector: Evidencing our impact

This microcredential provides learners with the knowledge and skills needed to measure the impact of their work and demonstrate its value in achieving desired outcomes in the community sector.

• OpenLearning
• 30 hours
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

The 7 Side-Effects of the Internet Age - Jagdish Sheth

Examine seven unintended consequences of the internet age — digital addiction, blurred virtual and real life, cybercrime and cyberwarfare, stranded real estate — and strategies for building digital vigilance.

• Coursera
• 3 weeks, 1 hour a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Defining AI for Social Impact

Explore how AI tackles social challenges, from protecting endangered wildlife to expanding healthcare access, and identify the algorithmic, practical, and ethical considerations behind real projects.

• Coursera
• 2 weeks, 2 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Career Certificate

Realizing AI for Social Impact

Explore how AI can serve social good: apply machine learning and reinforcement learning to public health and conservation, and deploy participatory, ethical systems in resource-constrained communities.

• Coursera
• 4 weeks, 10 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course
• 3 courses

Practical AI for Social Impact

Learn how machine learning and reinforcement learning model real-world social problems, and tackle data scarcity, bias, and ethical deployment through case studies of sequential, adaptive decisions.

• Coursera
• 2 weeks, 2 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Participatory AI for Social Impact

Design AI with communities rather than for them: analyze failed AI-for-good case studies, identify participatory principles, and build your own community engagement plan.

• Coursera
• 2 weeks, 2 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Social Impact Strategy: Tools for Entrepreneurs and Innovators

5 ratings

This course offers an introduction to social impact strategy and social entrepreneurship, including key concepts, an overview of the field, and tools to get started as a changemaker.

• Coursera
• 4 weeks, 2 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course