How using the Leap Kit framework is impacting one organization’s fundraising outlook
Being Left Behind as a Nonprofit
Aaron LaMonica-Weier
Ei Community
Aaron LaMonica-Weier
Love Map: 10 Questions to Find or Deepen Love
If love and relationships seem overly complicated, here’s a new starting point…
Victor Saad
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What’s Worth Doing?
Coming in 2020, a tool to help you navigate transitions by designing small, meaningful projects.
Victor Saad
How a Pacifist Became a Fighter
Discover how a bias toward action helps one man in his fight against Parkinson’s disease.
Jason Lobdell
Feeling Envious?
3 ways to transform envy into inspiration.
Dina Bokai
Kickstarter Campaign Reflections
Last week, the Ei community and I completed a month-long Kickstarter campaign for Leap Kit. The days leading up to the campaign and throughout the month of October were full of twists and turns. This post will be a space to capture and share the lessons learned from leading the kickstarter campaign. Hopefully, it can … Read More
Victor Saad
A Leap for Women’s Empowerment through Design
After studying the future of education at Stanford’s d.school, Katie Kirsch went on to start a non-profit focused on women’s empowerment. “When you pursue your passion and carve your own path, there is no limit to what you can learn, achieve, and create.”
State of the Union, 2016
Alright, so after googling State of the Union and watching a few past speeches it seemed like a good idea to write one for Experience Institute. Not because I think of myself as a president. It’s merely an interesting way to frame an honest look at our successes and failures in 2015 while sharing goals for 2016. … Read More
Victor Saad
EXP3 uses story to reflect on their first term
They were all nervous. This was the first big critique of the year. Even though Ei doesn’t share many similarities with traditional education programs, we do assign something akin to homework; a documenting assignment that tasks students to synthesize their previous term’s experiences into a story to be shared with the greater Ei community. For many of … Read More
Design Thinking for K-12: Boys Designing Barbie Clothes and Other Amazing Outcomes
Ei is more than a school for individuals who design their own education. We are also a design studio that adapts design thinking for k-12, higher ed, and businesses. One aspect of that work is our Design Thinking collaborations with K12 schools. (You can see these collaborations demonstrated in the video below highlighting our work with … Read More
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