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Tue, Sep 08, 2015 @ 07:00 PM   $32   Centre For Social Innovation, 601 W 26th St, Ste 325
 
     
 
 
              

  
 
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<P STYLE="line-height: 1.43181818181818; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 14pt;" DIR="ltr"><SPAN STYLE="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><SPAN STYLE="color: #333333; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Join </SPAN><SPAN STYLE="text-decoration: underline; color: #3366ff; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Be Social Change</SPAN><SPAN STYLE="color: #333333; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;"> & </SPAN><SPAN STYLE="color: #333333; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Kristina Drury</SPAN><SPAN STYLE="color: #333333; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">, founder of </SPAN><SPAN STYLE="text-decoration: underline; color: #3366ff; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">TYTHEdesign</SPAN><SPAN STYLE="color: #333333; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">, on <STRONG>Tuesday, September 8th from 7PM to 9PM </STRONG>for <STRONG><EM>Design Thinking Fundamentals - Problem Solving for Impact</EM></STRONG></SPAN><SPAN STYLE="color: #333333; font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">.</SPAN></SPAN></P>
<P STYLE="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 14pt;" DIR="ltr"><SPAN STYLE="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><SPAN STYLE="color: #333333; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Curious about design thinking and how you can adapt it for your work? Design thinking is a problem-solving, idea generating, decision making mindset that is applicable and useful in all disciplines, not just the design field! After years of integrating the design thinking process into their daily work, </SPAN><A STYLE="text-decoration: none;" HREF="http://www.tythe-design.com/" REL="nofollow"><SPAN STYLE="color: #1155cc; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">TYTHEdesign</SPAN></A><SPAN STYLE="color: #333333; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;"> has tailored a class focused on how their theories translate across fields and sectors into real world, real work experience. <BR><BR></SPAN></SPAN><SPAN STYLE="color: #333333; line-height: 20.6818199157715px; white-space: pre-wrap; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: transparent;">Design thinking is a user-centered methodology that helps you to empathize with your clients or community, design to their needs, and experiment with solutions. In this class you will not only learn the tenets of design thinking, but how they can translate into your day-to-day work and interactions with your team. Through activities, case studies and interactive modeling, this class will demystify design thinking and translate it into adaptable strategies to help you innovate within your team, enhance new and existing services, and better connect with your community. This class will help you take design thinking from theory to practice.</SPAN></P>
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<LI><SPAN STYLE="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium;">Individuals from all professional or educational backgrounds interested in learning about the designthinking process</SPAN></LI>
<LI><SPAN STYLE="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium;">Managers looking for tools to activate collaboration within their teams</SPAN></LI>
<LI><SPAN STYLE="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium;">Early stage entrepreneurs or those considering starting a socially-minded venture</SPAN></LI>
<LI><SPAN STYLE="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium;">Professionals who have an idea for a project, organization or business that will drive social change</SPAN></LI>
<LI><SPAN STYLE="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><SPAN STYLE="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium;">Individuals looking to add creative thinking methodology to their work<BR><BR></SPAN></SPAN>
<P STYLE="line-height: 1.15; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: center;" DIR="ltr"><SPAN STYLE="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><SPAN STYLE="font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">LIMITED TICKETS AVAILABLE!<BR></SPAN></SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; font-weight: bold; white-space: pre-wrap; line-height: 1.15; background-color: transparent;">**BSC Unlimited pass holders get a 50% discount on this workshop</SPAN><SPAN STYLE="line-height: 20.4444446563721px;">**</SPAN></P>
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<H3 STYLE="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; line-height: 19px;"><SPAN STYLE="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium;">INSTRUCTOR BIO</SPAN></H3>
<P STYLE="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; line-height: 19px; color: #333333;"><SPAN STYLE="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><IMG STYLE="float: left; margin-left: 5px; margin-right: 5px;" SRC="https://cdn.evbuc.com/eventlogos/1311863/kdruryheadshotb.w.jpg" ALT="kristinadrury" WIDTH="200" HEIGHT="200"></SPAN></P>
<P STYLE="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 8px; color: #333333;"><SPAN STYLE="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000; font-size: medium;"><SPAN STYLE="font-weight: bold;">Kristina Drury (<SPAN STYLE="color: #3366ff;"><A STYLE="color: #0000ff; text-decoration: none;" HREF="http://twitter.com/tythedesign" TARGET="_blank" REL="nofollow"><SPAN STYLE="color: #3366ff;">@TYTHEdesign</SPAN></A></SPAN>)</SPAN>founder of<SPAN STYLE="font-weight: bold; color: #3366ff;"><A STYLE="color: #0000ff; text-decoration: none;" HREF="http://www.tythe-design.com/" TARGET="_blank" REL="nofollow"><SPAN STYLE="color: #3366ff;">TYTHEdesign</SPAN></A></SPAN>, is a social entrepreneur, designer and educator.<SPAN ID="docs-internal-guid-758da8e0-29db-cb9b-20a8-bf0a06db4752"><SPAN STYLE="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">TYTHE, a social impact firm, uses the lens of design and strategy to support organizations build their capacity in the social good community. Under her leadership TYTHE has increased the community impact of over 75 local and global social good organizations including the NYC Dept. of Education, Citi Community Development, Public Policy Lab and California State Library System. Recently, Kristina has been named a UNDP Innovation Expert. Prior to starting TYTHE, Kristina co-led the nonprofit Project H and worked in corporate social responsibility consulting. As an educator she has taught classes, workshops and training to build the capacity of over 600 change-makers, leaders, and entrepreneurs. Her teaching and speaking experience includes engagements at the Clinton Global Initiative University, Cooper-Hewitt Museum and New Museums Ideas City Festival.</SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></P>
<P STYLE="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 8px; color: #333333;"><SPAN STYLE="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000; font-size: medium;">You can learn about Kristinas current work<SPAN STYLE="font-weight: bold;"><SPAN STYLE="color: #3366ff;"><A STYLE="color: #0000ff; text-decoration: none;" HREF="http://www.tythe-design.com/" TARGET="_blank" REL="nofollow"><SPAN STYLE="color: #3366ff;">here</SPAN></A></SPAN></SPAN>and find out more about her background<SPAN STYLE="font-weight: bold; color: #3366ff;"><A STYLE="color: #0000ff; text-decoration: none;" HREF="https://www.linkedin.com/pub/kristina-drury/8/556/10" TARGET="_blank" REL="nofollow"><SPAN STYLE="color: #3366ff;">here</SPAN></A></SPAN>.</SPAN></P>
<P STYLE="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; line-height: 19px; color: #333333;"><STRONG><SPAN STYLE="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 21px; font-size: medium;">SPACE PARTNER</SPAN></STRONG></P>
<P STYLE="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 1.3em; color: #333333;" DIR="ltr"><SPAN STYLE="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><STRONG><BR><IMG STYLE="float: left;" SRC="https://evbdn.eventbrite.com/s3-s3/eventlogos/92830701/csiorgprinttransparentbg.jpg" ALT="" WIDTH="200" HEIGHT="133"></STRONG><SPAN STYLE="line-height: 1.6em;"><SPAN ID="docs-internal-guid-f31109ee-879a-46a9-3740-ab8ca1e37398"><SPAN STYLE="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">The <STRONG>Centre for Social Innovation (<SPAN STYLE="color: #3366ff;"><A STYLE="line-height: 25.6000003814697px;" HREF="http://www.twitter.com/csiSL" TARGET="_blank" REL="nofollow"><SPAN STYLE="color: #3366ff;">@csiSL</SPAN></A></SPAN>)</STRONG> is a home for nonprofits and social entrepreneurs in New York City. Theyre building a movement of passionate people committed to a better world. Learn more at http://nyc.socialinnovation.org/</SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></P>
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<P STYLE="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 1.3em; color: #333333;" DIR="ltr"><SPAN STYLE="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><EM>Refund Policy: Refunds can be issued in full up to 48 hours prior to the start of the class by contacting Be Social Change.</EM></SPAN></P>
 
 
 
 
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