Offsite: Building + Launching an Online Learning Community Amidst the Pandemic
As Learnit’s Events & Community Partnerships Lead, Carly helped Learnit pivot from hosting in-person training and live events to building and launching a thriving online community and virtual events initiative to grow new business.
Learnit’s Community Partnerships Program: Supporting Local Non-Profits & Fostering Trusting, Strategic Relationships Along the Way
Carly has collaborated with her team at Learnit to create a Community Partnerships Program in which local non-profits can showcase their impact to top employers throughout the world and attract new donors at weekly community events. Carly also sources and recruits guest speakers and outside experts to speak on top of mind topics and give back to their organization of choice at Learnit’s weekly events, panel discussions and ‘Ask the Expert’ workshops.
Refugees Illuminated: Mapping the System to Help Thailand’s Government Address Fire Safety
As finalists of both the University of Oxford’s Map the System Challenge and USD’s Global Social Innovation Challenge in June 2018, Carly and her team of Peace Studies graduate students worked to create the following:
In-Depth Research of Thailand’s Socio-Political Economy
Analysis of Problem + Solutions Landscape
Ideation of Education Program + Solar Lantern Prototype
Development of Microfinance Business Model
Local and Global Partnership Communication
Wachira, her teammate and Thailand’s Chief of Refugee Affairs in Thailand, has since returned to Thailand and begun implementing this fire safety initiative.