MIT CoLab

🏙️🏡 Spring 2025 Course Spotlight!

CoLab is proud to highlight 'Making Good on Baltimore as a Just City: Building Solutions for a Vacant Housing Crisis', led by Holly Harriel. This course challenges students to tackle Baltimore’s vacant housing crisis by working on real-time solutions for a client. Through community-driven approaches, students will rethink stakeholder engagement and explore how resident perspectives can be integrated into the city’s neighborhood stabilization initiatives.

By supporting this work, we continue to foster collaborative problem-solving for just and equitable cities.

As the age wave materializes, the United States is largely unprepared to support Americans' ability to age with dignity and independence. Amid demographic, financing, and workforce challenges, wide-ranging innovation will be required in-home care, dementia care, senior housing, and long-term care finance if person-centered care is to become affordable and accessible.

We invite you to join MIT Community Innovators Lab on Tuesday, January 7 from 1:00 - 2:30 pm EST for a webinar to launch our report, "Promising Housing and Long-Term Care Innovations for Person-Centered Aging Amid Financing and Workforce Challenges: Lessons from the Netherlands"!

Register Here! https://ow.ly/bV0t50UvbnE

At MIT CoLab, we're committed to making the clean energy transition fair and accessible for everyone. Through cutting-edge research and strategic partnerships, our Closing the Gaps initiative ensures the benefits of America's climate investments reach the communities that need it most. Join us in creating a more inclusive, sustainable future, and learn more about how Closing the Gaps is driving clean energy change. ; ; ; ; ; ;
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Strengthening Our Commitment Amidst New Challenges

We just launched our free online program – called Just Money! This digital MIT course invites you to a learning journey on values-based financial institutions around the world. Do you know what your bank does with your money? What is the role of a bank in producing societal well-being? This course looks into banks that operate differently, namely, “just banks" that use capital and finance as a tool to address social and ecological challenges.

This course is for anyone who wants to understand the unique role banks play as intermediaries in our economy and how they can leverage that position to produce positive social, environmental, and economic change.

The instructors of this course have worked for over 15 years with just banks from around the world, as well as in the fields of community development, economic democracy, and social change.

No previous knowledge of finance or banking is needed to take this course. Enroll by simply signing up here: https://mitxonline.mit.edu/courses/course-v1:MITxT+11.405x/