impact2020 online launches

impact2020: a new webinar series, will bring together Australia’s for-purpose sector to connect, learn and collaborate.

At a time when COVID-19 is keeping Australians apart, the Centre for Social Impact (CSI) is launching a new online webinar series to help bring people together to achieve brilliant things.

From 23 April, CSI will offer free daily webinars to the for-purpose sector through its new platform, impact2020, for up to six weeks.

Professor Kristy Muir, CEO of CSI, believes impact2020 offers an opportunity for transformational connections and discussions, at a critical time in our history.

“We are no doubt at an unusual moment in history. As we all connect virtually, this is an opportunity to join together as a community, to learn from each other and affect positive change. It’s an opportunity to catalyse social impact.”

“To tackle our current local and global challenges we need to come together and discover new and divergent ways of thinking,

“Our tag line is ‘brilliant things happen when we come together’, and we know that this form of connection and collaboration will be a powerful tool for change. We want to draw on our network of brilliant minds to take a virtual dive into a whole range of topics. Coming together in this way will allow us to combine and harness our thinking and actions to create positive social change,” Professor Muir said.

From expert insights to in-depth discussions, analysis and debate, impact2020 will champion innovative thinking within the Australian for-purpose sector. The series' daily webinars will cover wide-ranging topics across the social impact sector and participants are invited to dip in and out of the online event as it suits them.

Presenters will include researchers, educators and thought leaders from across CSI’s network who will share their research, innovative thinking, knowledge, case studies, tools and resources.

Webinar presenters will be announced progressively with the first round including:

• Professor Kristy Muir will kick things off by setting the scene for impact2020
• Dr Megan Weier and Isabella Saunders, researchers from CSI UNSW, will present the findings of the Social Progress Index, which ranks Australian states and territories on social progress
• Professor Jo Barraket, Director of CSI Swinburne, will present on digital inclusion, drawing on findings from the Australian Digital Inclusion Index and Giving Australia Report
• Krystian Seibert, researcher and educator at CSI Swinburne, will discuss philanthropy in the context of COVID-19