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Discover the power of a common agenda in driving positive social change! 🌍💪 Our next Collaborative event on Oct 4 will dive into creating our Common Agenda. A common agenda is a shared roadmap for success that helps bring various people together to tackle complex issues head-on. It defines the issue, sets clear goals and objectives, plots strategies, creates a shared vision, measures progress, and plans action. Together, we can make a difference! Read more: https://lnkd.in/grPJBtsN #CommunityDrivenChange #CollectiveImpact #SocialChange

Social Finance shares their reflections at the halfway point for developing a professional linkage platform in adult social care as part of our new service models innovation fund. Read the latest blog post: https://lnkd.in/gZdseX2v #adultsocialcare #innovation #newservicemodels #data

Would you like to know more about the people behind the Social Value Engine? In our latest blog post, we introduce you to Ivan Annibal, our co-founder and director, who shares his story of how he started his journey in the public sector, where he focused on optimising public and private funds for effective interventions. Read the full interview here: https://lnkd.in/eM-s7m_C And don’t forget to follow us for more updates on our work, our team, and our impact! #SocialValue #SocialImpact #SocialValueEngine #MeetTheTeam #IvanAnnibal

Endorsed by Local Government Association, the widely recognised Social Value measurement framework, the Social Value TOM System™ remains the most established and trusted means for measuring and recording Social Value today. This is because we continually examine and refine the system to ensure that it keeps pace with the ever evolving Social Value landscape. In this blog, our CSO, Nathan Goode outlines five reasons why the TOM System™ is the leading method for measuring and reporting Social Value https://hubs.li/Q026QrNj0 #SocialValuemeasurement #TOMsystem #Transparentreporting

How do you see yourself in the social change ecosystem? The social change ecosystem framework developed by Deepa Iyer is a tool to clarify values, identify roles, and support organizations, campaigns, and networks committed to solidarity, justice, and equity. It identifies ten roles that people and organizations often show up in (such as weaver, builder, and storyteller) when they are responding to crises, participating in social change movements, or organizing collectively to advance a campaign or a cause related to equity, justice, and solidarity! Learn more about the social change ecosystem framework at:

"Systems capacity is an outcome in itself. Many funders have found, through experience, that the capacities that organizations and movements have, as well as the conditions in which they operate, are as important as the outcomes they produce... A strong system accelerates progress in opportune moments, deepens implementation of wins, and better protects gains when they are under threat." - Stanford Social Innovation Review #systemsthinking #systemschange

Why the social sector could use more human agency: "we see a need for social sector organizations to get wise to the diverse psychological realities that people experience. Rather than delivering opportunities alone, programs can be designed with the appropriate psychological or social support needed to navigate our choices... There is a growing body of rigorous evidence that nurturing agency can be radically more cost-effective than the delivery of opportunities alone. When we are supported in the exercise of agency, we build self-efficacy and self-determination. And with this comes the power to find a tractable path toward the future we seek."

I recently joined The Agency Fund - a group that invests in ideas and organizations that expand human agency. But what is agency and why invest in it? Agency describes the capability to formulate #goals; understand and #navigate our environment; and learn, adapt and maintain #resilience as we strive to achieve our ambitions. While all people have agency, it is neither a fixed nor an inherent capability. However, opportunities to build agentic capabilities are not distributed equally. Social exclusion, stigmatisation, and economic marginalization hamper our ability to nurture agency. Social programs have historically focused on people’s material constraints, leaving unaddressed the psychological impacts of exclusion and poverty. But accumulating RCT evidence shows that addressing these constraints can be highly cost-effective. But focusing on human agency is not just about bang for the buck. More importantly, it’s about placing human worth and dignity at the center of development programming. In this piece, Temina Madon and I sketch our thoughts on agency.

Where we see the problem often isn't where it started. It has become increasingly clear that the roots of the many social injustice issues that non profits, social justice movements, and activists seek to address often extend far beyond their local community. For people who use evidence to design social impact projects, it is so important that we widen our lenses to encompass the intricate web of interconnected factors at play. ££$$$$$ are invested each year in monitoring, evaluation, research and learning to "understand" and address inequities issues. But.... * How often do these approaches explore the historical context that has shaped current realities? * Acknowledge the complex interplay of local, national, and global forces? * Turn inwards and focus research on the systems and practitioners that make up the social impact sectors in order understand inequities over which projects/issues get funded and why? These are some of the issues we will be getting into in our upcoming Research Design for Social Impact Course, launching next week! We still have 6 spaces left, so get in touch if you are interest in developing more nuanced, effective strategies for change, with a global community of practitioners. We offer payment parity prices, so course pricing is adjusted according to location. We've also got a free webinar this Wednesday, 15:00 BST where you can learn more about our framework, who we are and why we do the work that we do. https://lnkd.in/gbF5HUwJ _______________________________________________________________________________ Design for Social Impact is a social enterprise on a mission to support organisations and practitioners design equity-centred programs, policies, research and learning.

Do you truly understand what social value is, the impact your organisation makes and how to measure it, and apply it, to the activities you do? Demystify social value with HACT’s social value training - informed by years of combined experience of using, advising, and teaching organisations to use social value principles, our training is designed to benefit anyone seeking to understand, measure and attach a value to the social impact of their work.   Head of Social Value Michael McLaughlin will guide you through understanding what's at the core of social value, the theory that underpins it and how when correctly applied, can be quantified down to the impact on an individuals wellbeing so you can take you knowledge and practical learning and apply the golden thread of social value right through your organisation.    Find out more and register for a date that suits you here: https://lnkd.in/ep2JrkiC #SocialValue #OnlineLearning #SocialHousing #SocialImpact