Charles Tsai

What a difference a decade makes. In 2001, when I worked with the Creative Visions Foundation to produce PBS GlobalTribe, the first T.V. series of its kind that showcased people we now refer to as “changemakers” and “social entrepreneurs,” we avoided using those terms, afraid they were too esoteric for the general public. Today, social [...]

I’m happy to see that the World Bank‘s Development Marketplace has prominently featured my toolkits in its Toolkits section. Development Marketplace provides funding for early stage social entrepreneurs and has given away millions of dollars to ore than 200 organizations through its global competitions. The toolkits are part of the support the Development Marketplace provides [...]

Admit it. The day you learned you get to give a TED talk, you couldn’t help but burst with pride. Sure, it’s not the TED conference… just a local TEDx event. But who cares?! In many people’s eyes, you’ve arrived. This is your 18 minutes of fame! Finally, you get to talk to people outside [...]

Now that I feel more settled in Washington, DC, I hope to post more regularly, starting with this update. I’ve begun working on what should have been the first toolkit, the one that ties together all the toolkits.  But I needed to work on the individual chapters to get a sense of how they will [...]

I semi-officially unveiled the Creative Activist Toolkit today with an interview on Change.org.  Technically we’re still in “beta” but it’s good to test the waters with our initial chapters. It’s already getting a good response but I look forward to additional feedback in the weeks ahead. Youth can offer so much in terms of great [...]

CAT008a: Pitch Template – Keynote View more presentations from Charles Tsai. A companion chapter to Perfect Your Pitch (Chapter 7), this one offers a template that you can use to create a funding pitch for your social change project. It’s also available in PowerPoint format.

CAT007: Perfect Your Pitch View more documents from Charles Tsai. If you ever have to present your project to funders, this chapter on how to “perfect your pitch” may come in handy.

CAT006 – The Tao Of MacGyver View more documents from Charles Tsai. Chapter 6 of The Creative Activist Toolkit deals with MacGyver’s approach to problem solving and why social change leaders might want to learn from his example.

CAT005: Message With Success View more documents from Charles Tsai. The fifth chapter of the Creative Activist Toolkit. This one applies teachings of Made to Stick to storytelling and social change.

CAT004: Make It Count View more documents from Charles Tsai. I’ve been itching to get this chapter completed for the Creative Activist Toolkit. It speaks to an aspect of social change that is too often neglected – outcome. People tend to focus on what they do – their program’s activities – rather than what change [...]