Kravis Lab for Social Impact integrates cutting edge research with evidence-based activities, while pioneering new tools and inventive programming where students can practice and apply essential success skills in a safe, supportive, fun space. The world faces pressing, divisive challenges and requires courageous, creative, collaborative leaders and innovators who are equipped to address, solve and transcend these challenges. Through our highly experiential and experimental programming, our ultimate goal is for students to recognize and have the confidence and ability to make a positive social impact wherever they are and in whatever they choose to do. We want to ensure that students have all the tools and skills they need to do good in the world, while also doing well personally and professionally. If you are passionate about creating lasting change in yourself and your community, Kravis Lab for Social Impact is the place for you!
In practice, there are three pillars to the program:
- CORE SKILLS FOR SUCCESS
Improve yourself by learning and building essential Changemaker competencies in Courage, Creativity and Collaboration. - COMMUNITY IMPACT
Impact our local community by working with non-profit and social impact organizations serving underrepresented and under-resourced communities to help them maximize their impact. - SOCIAL INNOVATION
Training emerging social entrepreneurs to innovate, ideate and incubate big, hairy, audacious ideas to change the world.
The Kravis Lab for Social Impact aspires to be the world’s premier center for social entrepreneurship and innovation – a model for colleges and universities across the world.
How do we achieve this? We do it by building a program for student success. Our goal is for every student on campus to learn the core skills that they need to thrive in the 21st century. We want to show students how to do good in the world, while also doing well personally and professionally.
In practice, there are three pillars to the program:
1. Helping students learn the essential skills for success: We have identified 9 central skills that are rarely taught in schools, but which are necessary for people to succeed in the coming decades. We can train students in these skills; we can measure their progress and growth. Our ultimate goal is for all students on campus to attain mastery in at least one of these core skills.
2. Making the community a better place: We tap into the students’ strengths and talents to help benefit organizations that are “socially profitable.” In other words, students don’t just learn about the problems of the world; they become active problem-solvers, working with community members to create and track progress towards a better world.
3. Designing innovative initiatives to benefit tens of millions of lives – At the highest level, we encourage entrepreneurial students who wish to create bold, visionary plans that could transform the world. This part of our program isn’t for everyone. We are looking for those special students who want to pursue lives of great meaning and purpose.