DIPLOMA IN SOCIAL INNOVATION
Launch your social impact project
Choose 2 courses from this skill-building area:
Choose 2 additional electives to complete your Diploma journey:
Your diploma program includes:
The Diploma in Social Innovation consists of five courses that can be taken fully online or include a workshop onsite at the University for Peace (UPEACE) campus for a hybrid experience. Make the most of your diploma with four coaching sessions with a specialist from the Humanitarian Coaching Network (HCN) specifically chosen to match your educational and career goals. Your coach will help you clarify what you want to get out of the program and ensure that you understand how best to do so. You will start growing your impact, capacity, and professional profile right away!
Connect with your global cohort and build your network before your first course with a group orientation and onboarding session. Experience this learning journey alongside a community of peers that will be with you throughout! Spots are limited, so reserve yours by sending us an email at centre@upeace.org.
Be a Social Innovator!
Only 5 courses required, payment options available*
You want to do good work, make an impact, and pay the bills. If you dream of starting your own impact-oriented social enterprise, organization or project, this program is for you. You’ll get the step-by-step tools and guidance you need to launch something new or take your current project to the next level. Walk away with a reviewed social business plan, marketing and fundraising plans, and sustainability built into a long-term approach. Walk away a social innovator with your Diploma in Social Innovation!
Build your social impact project from wherever you are
The Diploma in Social Innovation is designed for busy changemakers who want to keep moving their work forward while gaining the tools, structure, and support to make their ideas more sustainable.
Learn online. Apply immediately. Grow with guidance.
Because the required course is online, this Diploma is especially accessible for participants around the world. You can build your learning journey around your current work, project, organization, or social enterprise.
Through a mix of online courses, live virtual sessions, and selected elective options, you will develop practical skills in innovation, finance, evaluation, marketing, leadership, and systems thinking.
Personalized coaching for the journey you're building
Your Diploma includes four confidential one-on-one coaching sessions designed to help you transform learning into action. Whether you're launching a social enterprise, leading a nonprofit initiative, navigating a career transition, or scaling an impact project, your coach becomes a thought partner throughout the journey.
After learning more about your goals, professional context, and aspirations, you'll be matched with a qualified coach from the Humanitarian Coaching Network. Together, you'll reflect on challenges, identify opportunities, strengthen your decision-making, and create momentum toward meaningful progress.
Explore goals, priorities, and opportunities with structured guidance.
Translate course concepts directly into your project, organization, or career.
Develop greater clarity and confidence when facing important decisions.
Stay accountable and keep moving forward throughout your Diploma journey.
DIPLOMA IN SOCIAL INNOVATION INSTRUCTORS
Our course facilitators are hand-picked experts with amazing experience and credentials. Hailing from countries all over the world, they include best-selling authors, Harvard graduates, university professors, and executive directors. Each and every one of them is not only extremely knowledgeable, but actually lives and breathes the subject they’re teaching about. As practitioners in their respective fields of interest, they can truly guide participants towards creating impact and change.
And what’s more? The UPEACE Centre facilitators make themselves very available throughout their course for participant questions and concerns, programing 1-1 calls outside class hours to talk through specifics of the course. The facilitators are just as invested in the experience as you are and want to make sure that you’re getting the most out of it!
Are you ready to be a changemaker?
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