Content for this blog post comes from an unpublished paper that I have edited and revised for Aperio Group (UK) Ltd For the last two decades there has been a drive to increase the amount of private investment and philanthropy going into the third sector and development sector. Social investment Read more…
Every year it seems that social impact makes huge strides forwards! In thinking through the past twelve months and looking ahead the following trends have emerged, at least from my point of view! Getting better at measuring complex issues: There is a growing acceptance that tackling and measuring individual issues such Read more…
There are a lot of people these days saying that they are helping organisations to measure or prove their social impact (disclaimer: I am one of them!). In truth it isn’t some sort of rocket science and I’ve come to realise recently that the most important thing that I can Read more…
‘Doing good’ – you see that all the time these days. Everyone wants to ‘do good’. And in truth, everyone can. Gone are the days when charities or nonprofits were assumed to be doing good simply because they had a nonprofit registration. This should be prompting a period of reflection Read more…
I love working with other consultants on projects. It is a great way to learn, improve and deliver work that you couldn’t do on your own. Recently however, I have had an not so great experience of collaboration. Most of the time you get to choose your collaborators in advance. Read more…
I’ve been bombarded with articles recently about how ‘reframing’ something, like evaluation, and calling it ‘design-based’ will inspire new ways to track and do innovation. Really. I’m mean, really? This particular article went on to list evaluation as both a product and a service and tried to outline why this Read more…
I’d like to think that we are all working in civil society because we want to see a better world: fairer, equal, sustainable communities that have a better quality of life and opportunity to fulfil their purpose in life; a sustained environment that protects biodiversity and manages climate change. I’d Read more…
I wrote a previous blog about Brexit back with the last deadline was upon us – it is still an interesting and salient read and if anything more relevant now – worth reading! The UK third sector seems to have been slow to respond to Brexit. In part I suspect Read more…
How many times have you heard me say that! Yes I know, sometimes I can go on and on about how useful workshops can be – probably because they are and they are a great, time efficient way to get views and opinions out in the open. Workshops are more Read more…
We all respond to the situation that we find ourselves in, and that is true of any intervention that you might design: it is a response, framed in a particular way to a situation that you and others have identified as needing improvement, challenge, changing. But how much do you Read more…