Designing Effective Social Impact with Colin Page McGinnis
October 1 – 8, 2026 / 6:30 PM – 8 PM
$100.00
Learn practical frameworks for designing, evaluating, and leading initiatives that create meaningful social impact.
Meaningful social impact is more than a mission statement or a one-day service project. This interactive workshop now runs across two 90-minute sessions. The first session builds the theory: how to distinguish real impact from performative efforts, how values show up in budgets and programs, and how to ask sharper questions from wherever you sit, whether in a student org, internship, or early-career role. The second session puts that theory to work through applied problem sets, where participants diagnose real budgets, pressure-test coalition-building strategies, and design or refine an initiative of their own.Both sessions are hands-on, and the second is built almost entirely around applied practice. Participants leave with a completed one-page Impact Playbook for a real initiative in their lives, a set of worked problem sets they can reuse, and a quick reference card with the frameworks introduced in class.
Commitment
Level
1.5 hours, Two-weeks, Thursdays, In-person at Denison University
Measured vs.
Learning
Participants will learn to distinguish meaningful initiatives from performative efforts, understand how impact shows up in budgets and decision-making, and develop a practical framework for evaluating and strengthening socially responsible work in academic and professional settings.
*Affiliated Universities: Bluffton, Capital, Heidelberg, Kenyon, Marietta, Ohio Wesleyan, Otterbein, Wittenberg, Wooster, Baldwin Wallace, Ohio Northern.
Earn Your Badge
of Completion
Workshops range from 2-4 hours of contact time, depending on the topic and content. To earn your badge of completion, you must attend the entire session.
Meet Your Instructor
Colin Page McGinnis, CReC, is a strategist and operator who thinks in systems and relationships at the same time—a combination that centers people in the
process, and gets to outcomes faster for it. At OH.io, he serves as connective tissue across leadership, revenue, operations, and external partners, bringing a behavioral and learning sciences lens to the problems most organizations treat as purely structural. A Forbes 30 Under 30 honoree for Social Impact, he has operated inside high-pressure environments where growth, talent, and execution collide. Colin holds a B.S. from The Ohio State University and an M.A. from the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. He is a Certified Resilience Coach.
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