Collaboration has multiple meanings depending on your starting point. Henry Kippin asks: what are the questions to which collaboration is the answer?
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Trusts and foundations: Jake Hayman is among the voices questioning what they do
Independent funders don't collaborate enough and are unfit for purpose, according to a recent report and a blog by Hayman of the Social Investment Consultancy. Third Sector's Susannah Birkwood asks if this criticism is well founded.
Two Futures for Independent Funders
Henry Kippin writes for NewStart about Collaborate's funding ecology programme.
A new funding ecology needs team players, not managers
There has been a recent surge in interest around how well the world of grant makers and independent foundations work with others around them to achieve really meaningful social change. Dawn Austwick, Chief Executive of Big Lottery Fund, blogs about our funding ecology programme in Third Sector.
Linked in London
Collaborate Intern George Fraser explores the potential of public services to empower citizens in shaping the cities around them.
How can we collaborate to support social entrepreneurs in the world?
Sarah Brent shares her views on the Unusual Suspects Festival and the collaborative spirit of the UnLtd event.
Spain, Soccer and Star Wars: making collaboration work
Henry Kippin shares some lessons from Spain where health professionals embarked on some ‘dark work’ to create a better connected health system for local residents.
Creative destruction – careful what you wish for?
Our director Henry Kippin writes for NewStart magazine on ‘creative destruction’ and the need for a more collaborative approach to public policy.
How greater freedom for local areas can help drive economic growth
In an article first published in Localis, our researcher Dan Crowe makes the case for creative financing to allow new local revenue streams and underwriting loans for public infrastructure projects, alongside a major expansion of the Government’s localism agenda will get Britain’s economy growing faster.
Delivering public services for the future: Harnessing the crowd
Governments around the world are being squeezed. In the aftermath of the deepest financial crisis since the 1930s, public leaders are increasingly being asked to do more with less—enhancing citizen outcomes while continuing to find cost inefficiencies.