This new publication offers a practical guide to collaboration readiness, drawn from our practice across the UK and beyond. We believe there's no transformation without collaboration and no collaboration without readiness: this report helps you to take a step back and consider six different aspects of collaboration and provides a shallow route into building readiness in each.
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Skills, Jobs and Growth: Collaborating to Improve Outcomes for Marginalised Citizens in Leeds
In this paper, Collaborate and PwC ask how business, government and civil society in the Leeds area can come together to ensure opportunities in skills and employment are shared by everyone.
Social Value: A Commissioning Framework
Collaborate and The Transition Institute have developed a framework for social value commissioning – drawn from a range of expert contributions, and in-depth development work at Lambeth Council and Sunderland City Council.
Collaborative Capacity in Public Service Delivery: Towards a Framework for Practice
This discussion paper reflects primarily on the public service reform agenda in the UK, drawing lessons from a range of British examples to form the basis of a delivery framework that can be discussed, adapted and applied internationally.
A New Funding Ecology for Social Change
This report, authored by Dr Henry Kippin, looks at the role of the funding community in addressing social change initiatives and the independent funding community.
The Collaborative Citizen, 1st edition
In partnership with Ipsos MORI, The Collaborative Citizen makes a major contribution to the public services debate by arguing and evidencing the need to include citizens in the delivery of quality public services.
From Providers to Partners: What Will It Take?
Collaborate launches a report with the Coalition for Care and Support Providers in Scotland (CCPS), which examines the question of how to shift relationships between commissioners and providers into the territory of real collaboration.
‘From delivering services to collaborating for outcomes’ – Making Good
Collaborate's Executive Director Dr Henry Kippin contributes to the debate about the future of the voluntary sector in a full volume of essays, 'Making Good: the future of the voluntary sector'.
Building a Coalition of Collaborators in 2015
On January 27th 2015, Collaborate, Social Innovation Exchange (SIX) and the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation launched 'Building a Coalition of Collaborators in 2015', a 'next steps' look reflecting the ideas and insights from last year's Unusual Suspects Festival.
Public Service Spin-Outs 2014: Needs and Wants
Public Service Spin-Outs: Needs and Wants is a new report looking at UK 'spin-out' sector by assessing its needs, wants, obstacles and aspirations within public service delivery.