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Systems Changers
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COVID has highlighted a great need for systems change in the Black community.
In March, NHS England called upon health trusts to assess BAME workers who are “at potentially greater risk” from coronavirus. They found that one in five of the 1.3 million NHS staff are from BAME backgrounds. The Guardian then uncovered that of the 53 NHS staff who died, 68% were BAME.…
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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 convened by Lankelly Chase. I anticipated glazed eyes…
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Reflections on trust and systems change
Part of Lankelly Chase’s Action Inquiry on ‘place’ has involved funding associates to work with local actors to embed the 9 System Behaviours. This piece is a synthesis of our experiences in the action inquiry as they relate to those conditions. We chose to reflect on the topic of…
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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 Action Inquiry Manager (me!) to…
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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 – a sort of mutton dressed as agile, synergistic lamb? Or was this merely a…
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Introducing Systems Changers 2018
The third Systems Changers programme launches this week and I feel particularly fortunate to be involved in it. The Systems Changers 2018 group is made up of practitioners who work specifically with vulnerable young people and the systems they come into contact with.
Children and young people are close to…
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Thinking Big: How to use Theory of Change for Systems Change
‘Thinking big: How to use Theory of Change for Systems Change’ is a report by New Philanthropy Capital, supported by Lankelly Chase. This paper is a result of an inquiry into whether theory of change is helpful or unhelpful in supporting systems change. NPC looked at questions like: does theory of change encourage organisations…
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Sharing Insights from the Frontline- Systems Changers Twitter Takeovers
We often hear the voices of Chief Execs and CEOs and we’re beginning to hear the voices of people with lived experience more and more but rarely do we hear from the frontline workers who connect them. That’s why we launched the Systems Changers Programme, created and delivered…