Recent News
May 2009
Changing Ourselves, Changing the World: A Community Course in Transformative Action
The CRESP Center for Transformative Action is offering a 6-week community course on Transformative Action that will run from May 4th - June 8th.
This course offers community members the opportunity to:
- Learn about Transformative Action principles and practice them in their daily lives
- Engage with a group of community members who are committed to personal and social transformation
- Gain empowering skills and strategies to nonviolent social change.
Transformative action is a powerful new approach to social change. It is about transforming hatred into goodwill, problems into opportunities, enemies into allies, and failure into success. Authentic yet compassionate communication is a foundational skill. The goal of this course is to provide community members with some of the skills and strategies needed to engage in this empowering approach to social change.
March 2009
We are happy to welcome the student-run Social Business Consulting Group as one of our new Campus Project Partners.
January 2009
CTA, Cornell University, and Ashoka are partnering on an exciting new Changemaker Campus Initiative. This initiative is also featured in our Summer 2009 newsletter, which can be found in the Newsletters section at the bottom of this page.
December 2008
Ithaca Alternative Gift FairGive a gift of Help by contributing on line.
Spread the happiness of the holidays with a charitable donation. Gifts are available from thirty-one Ithaca area nonprofit agencies...[Read more]
Alternative gift fair focuses on giving - Read Erica R. Hendry's article about the fair in The Ithaca Journal.
June 2008
Cornell University Chronicle (June 26,2008): Center promotes acting, singing and dancing for social change
The Center for Transformative Action (formerly CRESP) at Cornell has created the Performing Arts for Social Change, an initiative to make a social impact through theater, music and dance. Read more...
Annual Reports and Newsletters
- Spring 2009 Newsletter [pdf]
- January 2008 Newsletter [pdf]
- Summer 2006 Newsletter [pdf]
- Winter 2005 Newsletter [pdf]
- Annual Report - 2003-2004 [pdf]