Bring Do Good learning into your classroom, program, or campus experience!
The Do Good Institute offers interactive workshops and presentations designed to help students explore social issues, develop changemaking skills, and discover meaningful ways to create positive impact in their communities. Through engaging activities, reflection, and discussion, participants gain practical tools and perspectives they can apply in their personal, academic, and professional lives.
You are a great fit for a Do Good Workshop or Presentation if you...
- Are seeking an engaging and interactive learning experience for a course, student organization, residence hall, department, or event
- Want to explore social issues, community engagement, and social impact
- Are looking to build leadership, civic engagement, or changemaking skills
Details
Do Good Workshops and Presentations provide students, faculty, and staff with opportunities to engage in meaningful conversations about social impact and community change. Facilitated by Do Good Institute staff and trained student leaders, sessions are designed to be interactive, discussion-based, and adaptable to a variety of audiences and learning environments.
Workshop topics encourage participants to reflect on the issues they care about, explore different approaches to creating change, develop skills for collaboration and civic engagement, and identify opportunities to get involved both on and off campus. Sessions can range from introductory experiences that help participants discover their role in creating positive change to skill-building workshops focused on leadership, dialogue, problem-solving, and community engagement.
Workshops and presentations are available for courses, living-learning programs, student organizations, campus departments, conferences, and special events. Each experience is designed to help participants leave with a deeper understanding of how they can contribute to positive social impact and take meaningful action in their communities.
Important Dates and Deadlines
- September 21, 2026: Deadline for requests for the Fall 2026 semester
- February 15, 2027: Deadline for requests for the Spring 2027 semester
Workshop Offerings
All workshops are 45 minutes. Workshops are built to be engaging and interactive and use different formats and methods such as self-reflection, pair-shares, all-group discussions, and other activities to enhance participants' learning experience.
Most often requested/recommended for UNIV and first-year colloquiums and seminars. Participants will explore broad strategies for taking action (give, serve, advocate, innovate, learn), reflect and discuss how these strategies relate to themselves, and connect with their peers to learn about their classmates’ first-hand interests and experiences. If you are interested in Terps Take Action or Social Change Wheel, it is recommended you choose only one of these sessions based on your participants.
Participants will explore specific methods of social change and discuss their strengths, challenges, and applications. These methods include twelve strategies (such as philanthropy, direct service, entrepreneurship, protest, advocacy, and more). This is considered a more specific, intermediate version of Terps Take Action. If you are interested in Terps Take Action or Social Change Wheel, it is recommended you choose only one of these sessions based on your participants.
Participants will understand and reflect on models and frameworks for understanding themselves as changemakers. Using three different models, participants will consider the areas in their life where they want to enact change, their spheres of influence for doing so, and how to best utilize their strengths and passions as individuals.
Participants will identify social issues of public or personal concern using brainstorming and self-reflection. This session can work well for courses or programs where participants need to identify or pick a social or environmental issue for investigation for an assignment or project.
Participants will have the opportunity to think about their own thinking style and the thinking styles of others by trying on different perspectives. This session can work well for team building and perspective-taking.
Participants will engage with a case study following social entrepreneurs and their organizations that began at UMD across varying themes from ethical service to nonprofit scaling. The case study willll either follow one of two organizations: Food Recovery Network or ROOTs Africa. After reading the study, students will have the chance to participate in interactive activities to apply concepts of the case study to their own entrepreneurial thinking. Follow-up consultation required for a case study workshop.
Presentation Offerings
A brief, 15-minute presentation to introduce and expose participants to the University of Maryland's Do Good Institute. This presentation highlights student programs and opportunities, including internships, fellowships, funding and more. It provides basic information about each program and upcoming dates and deadlines.
Learn More
Find out more information below about Do Good Workshops and Presentations, the benefits of participating, eligibility requirements, the registration process, and more!
- Provide participants with an engaging, discussion-based learning experience that complements course and program objectives
- Help participants connect classroom concepts to real-world social issues and community challenges
- Introduce students to frameworks for civic engagement, leadership, social innovation, and positive social change
- Foster critical thinking, reflection, dialogue, and collaborative problem-solving skills
- Connect students with campus resources, programs, and opportunities to further their involvement and impact
Do Good Workshops and Presentations are available to University of Maryland faculty, staff, students, and campus partners seeking educational and developmental programming for students.
Workshops may be requested for:
- Academic Courses
- First-Year and Transfer Student Programs
- Living-Learning Programs
- Student Organizations
- Residence Hall and Community Programs
- Leadership Development Programs
- Departmental Events and Trainings
- Conferences, Retreats, and Special Events
Workshops can be adapted for a variety of disciplines, student populations, and program formats.
Faculty, staff, students, and campus partners may request a Do Good workshop or presentation by submitting a request through Do Good Institute Presentation and Workshop Request Form.
You will receive a copy of your completed form upon submission. We ask that you complete a form per workshop or presentation you are requesting and per course section (if you are requesting for multiple sections of a course).
Requests should be submitted at least two weeks in advance of your preferred workshop/presentation date. After submitting a request, you will receive a confirmation email from our team within 8-12 business days to finalize the session, date, and time and setup a consultation call if necessary. You will also receive a final confirmation closer to the start of the semester to confirm any final details, provide any changes, or share any updates.
FAQs
Explore the tabs below to find answers to the most frequently asked questions.
Yes. Faculty and campus partners can request multiple workshops for one course, and can be sequenced to align with different units, themes, or learning outcomes throughout the semester.
No! Do Good Workshops are open to all campus partners and can be requested by student organizations, residence halls, departments, programs, and event organizers, not just academic courses.