Collaborative Citizens
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Collaborative Places
Collaborative Markets
Collaborative Behaviours
Thought Leadership
Leading Across the Sectors: new career pathways for social change
Leading Across the Sectors draws together the views of a range of experts to build a new blueprint for future career pathways across the sectors. This report was launched on 21 November 2013, with an expert panel of speakers including Chi Onwurah MP, Shadow Cabinet Office Minister, Lord Victor Adebowale, Chief Executive of Turning Point, and David Archer, Director of Socia Ltd and author of ‘Collaborative Leadership'.
Blog posts
Funding ecology – a comma towards a full stop
Big Lottery Fund's Sufina Ahmad and Rosie Mockett share their thoughts on the second report in the funding ecology programme.
Demand Management and Behaviour Change: a manual for collaborative practice
Collaborate and the Leadership Centre are today launching a delivery-focussed manual for managing demand. This follows on from major Collaborate research in 2014, that explored the potential of demand management to address unprecedented social and economic challenges within a tough climate of fiscal constraints.
A New Funding Ecology – A Blueprint for Action
This report is the second in our Funding Ecology programme, building on our previous work in this area to shape a vital debate about changing models of social change as well as the roles of the social, public and private sectors in funding and supporting it.
Supporting Social Change: The Role Of Social Investment
Supporting Social Change: The Role of Social Investment explores the emerging relationship between grant-making and social investment, and the ways in which independent funders can work together to develop new financial models to support social change.
To achieve the Global Goals, think Collaboration Readiness
Henry Kippin writes for Public Finance on why the Sustainable Development Goals present a challenge to all nations, and if they are to succeed, then policymakers need to start thinking and working in more collaborative ways.
Collaboration Readiness: Why it matters, how to build it, and where to start
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.
An Ecosystem of Social Change – new roles for independent funders?
Collaborate’s Henry Kippin and Rory Swinson Reid write about the funding ecology programme for Trust & Foundation News.
Collaborate provocation and facilitation underpins UNDP working paper on ‘Work in the Public Service of the Future’
In May 2015 Henry and Sarah were invited to Singapore where the UNDP Global Centre for Public Service Excellence (GCPSE) is based to facilitate a shared space event on the future of public service work. As provocation for this event, Collaborate developed 5 shifts in public service that they believe will be needed for the future of work (in the public service landscape) to be a successful one. Read more about those shifts.
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.
The Collaborative City
Collaboration has multiple meanings depending on your starting point. Henry Kippin asks: what are the questions to which collaboration is the answer?