Our facilitated 9-week course, turning ideas into plans and actions.
Learn about our 2017-2018 Sprout Ideas Fellowship for Ontario residents 15-26!
The Sprout E-course is designed to provide young leaders with access to training in essential skills, including team building, project management, communications and leveraging technology as they imagine, plan and develop social innovation projects. Since 2008, over 400 emerging social innovators from 71 countries have participated in the Sprout e-course, with financial support provided by government, non-profit and industry partners.
The Sprout E-course takes place over 9 weeks, including 1 orientation week, 6 weeks of lessons and quizzes, and 2 weeks of independent work. The curriculum is structured into four modules: design, plan, connect and assess. Each module requires participants to complete one lesson and at the end of each module, participants complete a quiz and self-assessment to progress to the next module.
Social Innovation Fellowships are awarded to Sprout E-course graduates with the most promising and well-prepared plans for community projects developed during the Sprout E-course. Fellows receive a cash awards along with mentorship and/or coaching, strategic tools and resources, and networking opportunities.
We welcome interest from organizations looking to sponsor cohorts of the Sprout E-course and Fellowships for their own youth networks or open recruitment. Contact us to learn more!
IMPACT
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2015
In 2015, we celebrated our first year of collaboration with Education Fast Forward (EFF), a community of education thought leaders. We created the EFF Sprout Action Fund, providing a customized cohort of the Sprout E-course to students with ideas for improving education in their regions along with $500 seed grants to help graduates launch their projects. Download our EFF Action Fund publication to read about the powerful education projects launched by their participants!
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2014
In 2014, we collaborated with the Waterloo Global Science Initiative (WGSI) to provide a customize cohort of the Sprout E-course to student participants of their Equinox: Learning 2030 summit. Download our Sprout Stories publication to read about the powerful education projects launched by their participants!
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2013
Throughout 2013, we worked with Microsoft to launch Innovate for Good, a series of events and an online community to connect young change-makers in over 30 countries to create social innovations with technology to address urgent challenges. Read our Sprout Stories publication to learn about the many exciting innovations created by this year's participants with the support of Microsoft employee mentors.
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2012
We were pleased to collaborate with the Pearson Foundation in 2012 to offer the Sprout E-course and Pearson Fellowship for Social Innovation to a deserving community of young innovators. Read our Fellowship Report to learn more about the projects they brought to life in their communities!
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2011
Between 2009 and 2011, the Sprout E-course was developed and refined through a grant from the Pearson Foundation. We are grateful for Pearson's support in enabling us to experiment with the optimal delivery format and structure for the program during this time, and documented many of our successes and learning moments in the reports you can download for these years.
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2010
Between 2009 and 2011, the Sprout E-course was developed and refined through a grant from the Pearson Foundation. We are grateful for Pearson's support in enabling us to experiment with the optimal delivery format and structure for the program during this time, and documented many of our successes and learning moments in the reports you can download for these years.
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2009
Between 2009 and 2011, the Sprout E-course was developed and refined through a grant from the Pearson Foundation. We are grateful for Pearson's support in enabling us to experiment with the optimal delivery format and structure for the program during this time, and documented many of our successes and learning moments in the reports you can download for these years.
TESTIMONIALS
"If the world stands on two pillars, education is one of them and Sprout has grasped the significance of making sure that this pillar remains tall and strong by educating the leaders of tomorrow through the Sprout e-course platform."
"The essence of Sprout is to provide an accessible, diverse, proactive and supportive online community where different people with different needs, aims, thoughts and ideas can come together and help each other grow as both people and project managers."