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Submit Your “Innovation”!    

In addition to our traditional “Call for Workshops,” we're putting out a special “Call for Innovations” - programs, projects and strategies that have addressed major challenges or issues in innovative ways. If your Innovation is selected, we will match you with two or three others who have tackled the same topic in different contexts. Then we’ll help you work in groups to collaboratively plan a dynamic workshop (concurrent session) on that topic. Read this expanded explanation of the innovation-based workshops for more details on this process.

Use This Form To Tell Us About Your Innovation

Give Your Innovation a Short Title

Challenges and Issues

Here are some of the issues and challenge areas we are seeking “Innovations” for. Please check which, if any, of these areas your Innovation addresses.

Embedding D&D in institutional systems (schools - organizations - government).

Framing this work in a way that is accessible and compelling to those beyond our immediate community.

Demonstrating to power-holders (public officials - funders - CEOs) that D&D works.

Creating/disseminating quality evaluation tools - the results of which can feed into research.

Demonstrating how D&D contributes to the bottom line in the private sector.

Strengthening the link between D&D and community action and/or policy change.

Addressing issues of oppression and bias within the D&D community.

Fostering the development of regional D&D networks and gatherings.

Learning from what D&D innovators outside of the U.S. are doing.

Using D&D to tackle timely issues like health care or climate change (include a description of the issue you wish to address under "Additional Innovations" below).

Using D&D to tackle group and identity-related issues (racism - heterosexism - interfaith conflict) and class-related issues like gentrification.

Helping practitioners identify how and when and why to integrate multiple D&D processes and practices.

If your Innovation addresses an issue or challenge not listed, include it below.

Description of Program Idea

Provide us with a one- or two-paragraph description of your Innovation. Include the basics - who, what, when, where, why and how. And tell us what was innovative or different about your program, project or strategy.

What else would you like us to know about your project, program or strategy? Is there a link where we can find more details?

Contributer

Primary Contact

If you typed someone else's information above, tell us who you are, and whether the person above knows you are recommending their program/strategy. Include your email address so we can contact you if we have questions.

Please read the statement below and check the box if you agree with the statement.

With the submission of this Innovation, I understand that, if chosen, I (or the person I wrote in above, if they accept) will be expected to work with others who submitted Innovations on the same topic/challenge to design, plan and implement a compelling workshop together within a reasonable time limit. I also understand that I will not receive compensation for doing this.

I agree. *

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