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Blog Post
Brave and safe spaces: philanthropy and systems change
I don’t often get invited to events for ‘senior members of the funding community’ in the UK - perhaps because the work I’m involved in is quite unusual. Because of this, I had a sense of trepidation about joining the recent retreat...
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Publication
Philanthropists working in systems – Funders retreat 2018
The Funders Retreat was an opportunity to provide a space for senior members of the funding community to talk through and reflect upon the value of a systems approach to their organisations and their practice. Funders regularly speak about the...
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Blog Post
Personal and organisational observations about Systems Changers 2018
As we enter month four of the third Systems Changers programme, a couple of pieces of received wisdom that were passed on to me when I started are playing out and beginning to make sense. The first is that doing an action inquiry requires the...
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Blog Post
Learning new ways of thinking… when your brain hurts, but in a good way
This is a bit of a brain dump after an exciting week of work, following the second two-day workshop as part of the System Changers programme. I’m on the programme with a dozen other staff members from the Children’s Society (and a great...
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Blog Post
All Change: Why Systems Change is more than just a fad
Peter Grigg, The Children's Society A few years ago, when The Children’s Society determined a strategic focus on systems change, it ran the risk of sounding faddish. Was it just describing what we’ve always done using new jargon...