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Financing Social Impact (April 2012)
By Carmel O'Sullivan, Geoff Mulgan, Simon Tucker, Will Norman
by Carmel O' Sullivan, Simon Tucker, Peter Ramsden, Geoff Mulgan, Will Norman and Diogo Vasconcelos. Creating a finance ecosystem where social ...
How to innovate: the tools for social innovation (December 2008)
By Geoff Mulgan, Julie Caulier-Grice , Robin Murray
This paper provides a first output from a major study, funded and in partnership with NESTA on the methods being used to generate and grow social ...
The Best of New Britain: An UpRising survey on leadership in the UK
Getting the support and development of young leaders right is vital for the future health of civic life and public organisations. To this end, Young ...
An outcomes framework for young people's services
By Bethia McNeil
Services for young people are under increasing pressure to demonstrate the difference that they make, and articulate the value that they produce for ...
One Hundred Not Out: resilience and active ageing (February 2012)
By Yvonne Roberts
For the first time in history in the UK the number of people over 60 outnumbers those under 16. A common reaction to this is pessimistic. This breeds ...
Tottenham Together: Voices from Tottenham after the 2011 riots
By Tricia Hackett
The Young Foundation was commissioned by the Haringey Community Panel to engage the community of Tottenham to understand how they viewed the impact ...
Developing skills for life and work: Accelerating social and emotional learning across South Australia (February 2012)
By Bethia McNeil, Lauren Kahn, Robert Patrick, Vicki Sellick
Recent years have seen significant shifts in the world of work, with the focus moving away from industry, towards innovation and the ‘knowledge ...
Good days & bad days: stories of ageing in the community (November 2011)
By Carmel O'Sullivan, Jacques Mizan, Will Norman
The demographics, statistics and predicted trends surrounding ageing can make fascinating, and sometimes alarming, reading. However, all too ...
Can we teach resilience? Brigadier General Rhonda Cornum on Emotional Fitness
In times of economic hardship, the question about how we increase people's emotional resilience is pressing.
A review of urban Community Land Trusts in England
This paper, produced as part of Young Foundation programme Future Communities, reviews the experience of urban community land trusts in England. It ...
Review of Innovation in the NHS (December 2011)
NHS Chief Executive's Review of Innovation in the NHS Summary of the responses to the Call for Evidence and Ideas. In June 2011, the Department of ...
Design for Social Sustainability: a framework for creating thriving communities.
By Lucia Caistor-Arendar, Saffron Woodcraft, Tricia Hackett
Lighting the touchpaper: Growing the Market for Social Investment in England
By Will Norman
The UK has a long history of developing innovative approaches to meeting social needs. With the establishment of Big Society Capital and the ...
Grow Your Own: How local authorities can support social enterprise (November 2011)
By Mandeep Hothi, Sophie Hostick-Boakye
From April 2010 to March 2011 the Young Foundation led the Supporting Local Social Enterprise action research project, commissioned by the Department ...Social Impact Investment: The opportunity and challenge of Social Impact Bonds (March 2011)
By Geoff Mulgan, Mhairi Aylott, Neil Reeder
The current spending squeeze in the UK means that there is more interest than ever, both in tools to achieve greater value, and ones that can tap new ...
Charm Offensive: Cultivating Civility in 21st Century Britain (Oct 2011)
By Carmel O'Sullivan, Phoebe Griffith, Rushanara Ali, Will Norman
Civility can seem like an old fashioned concept and the British public tends to think we are on a spiral of decline when it comes to everyday ...
Innovation for the Public Good: The Five Keys to Innovation
By Vicki Sellick
Ask a passerby to name an innovative organization and a familiar list soon appears: Apple, 3M, Google, eBay, etc. Less known are the innovative ...
Civility Lost and Found
By Alessandra Buonfino, Geoff Mulgan
Has Britain become an uncivil society? Civility Lost and Found argues that incivility has become common, whether in the behaviour of tv and radio ...
The End of Regeneration? Improving what matters on small housing estates (April 2010)
By Corinne Cordes, Mandeep Hothi, Saffron Woodcraft
This toolkit aims to encourage local authorities, housing associations and other public agencies to think differently about how to break the cycle ...
Productivity in UK public services – what went wrong? What could go right? (August 2011)
By Neil Reeder
Cuts to public spending have hit services hard; and more reductions are on the way. The worst can only be avoided by a step-change in public service ...
Growing interest? Mapping the market for social finance in the youth sector (August 2011)
By Bethia McNeil, Lauren Kahn, Sophie Moullin
The 11,000 organisations that comprise the voluntary and community youth sector (VCYS) are under unprecedented pressure. This report considers the ...
Mapping social networks to improve public service delivery (July 2011)
This presentation captures the findings from a project between Neighbourhood Management in King's Lynn, the Young Foundation and Insight 1st, working ...
Learning in Company: Designing a citizens university (July 2011)
By Genevieve Maitland Hudson
The U's founding belief is that engaging training in a range of useful skills such as first aid, saving energy and intervening safely to defuse ...
The Youth of Today Youth Leadership Fund: In Numbers (June 2011)
The Youth of Today was a two-year programme (March 2009 to March 2011) delivered by a consortium of seven leading youth organisations: The National ...
The Way to Work: Young People Speak Out on Transitions to Employment (May 2011)
By Bethia McNeil, Lauren Kahn, Mary Abdo, Sarah Hewes, Will Norman
The world of work and transitions to adulthood and independence are in a state of flux. Young people negotiating their transitions to adulthood are ...
Rough Nights: The Growing Dangers of Working at Night (April 2011)
By Will Norman
This report explores the lives of those people who work at night: the men and women who keep our hospitals open, clean our offices, allow us to ...
Learning Journeys: A review of lessons learned from The Youth of Today Youth leadership fund (March 2011)
By Bethia McNeil, Lauren Kahn, Stuart Thomason
This paper documents the learning from The Youth of Today Youth Leadership Fund (YLF), and sets out 8 steps in supporting youth leadership ...The Future of Offender Employment: An overview of the evidence and the case (March 2011)
By Anton Shelupanov, Robert Patrick
It is widely acknowledged that sustained employment is one of the most effective ways to prevent re-offending and reduce harm. However, the odds are ...
Connect: Patients and the Power of Data (March 2011)
By John Loder, Sylvia Wyatt
Information is the lifeblood of high quality healthcare. There have been huge technological advances about how it can be used and by whom, which have ...Learning Locally: What can three community initiatives teach us about promoting localism in Devon (March 2011)
By Carmel O'Sullivan, Catherine Russell, Vicki Sellick
This short report explores the lessons from three very different approaches to community engagement in Devon - a grass roots community forum, a ...
How to Guide No.4 - Design and Deliver Support to Innovations (March 2011)
This is the fourth in a series of five How To ... guides developed to help funders and project leads to set up and sustain innovative projects ...
How to Guide No.3 - Generating Economic Evidence for Innovation (March 2011)
This is the third in a series of five How To ... guides developed to help funders and project leads to set up and sustain innovative projects ...
How to Guide No.2 - Contract, Monitor and Evaluate Innovations (March 2011)
This is the second in a series of five How To ... guides developed to help funders and project leads to set up and sustain innovative projects ...
How to Guide No.1 - Find and Select the Best Innovations (March 2011)
This is the first in a series of five How To ... guides developed to help funders and project leads to set up and sustain innovative projects across ...
Charlie and Marie: a tale of ageing (February 2011)
As part of our Ageing Well Innovation Series we have been trying to visualise life from the age of 60 onwards. In particular, we have been looking at ...
Growing social ventures (February 2011)
By Geoff Mulgan, Jack Graham, Simon Tucker
Britain's history is full of examples of forward-thinking co-ops, charities, mutuals as well as profitable businesses that have pioneered innovative ...
Signing on: Experiences of worklessness in Birmingham (January 2011)
By Corinne Cordes, Sarah Hewes, Vicki Sellick , Will Norman
This report maps the journeys of Birmingham residents seeking work in the second half of 2010 and reflecting on their experiences, makes ...
Building resilient communities (January 2011)
By Catherine Russell, Nicola Bacon, Nina Mguni, Vicki Sellick
In Summer 2010, the Young Foundation worked with Wiltshire County Council to develop new approaches to improve wellbeing and transform service ...
This is European Social Innovation (December 2010)
By Louise Pulford
The Euclid and SIX networks, with the support of the Social Innovation Park in Bilbao, Spain, and the European Commission have published This is ...Health and Social Innovation: A briefing on our work to achieve radical improvements in health and care (December 2010)
The Young Foundation's involvement in healthcare over many decades has combined research, policy influence and the creation of new ventures. It has ...
Stuck on London's hard shoulder: Social needs in a fast moving city (December 2010)
By Rushanara Ali, Will Norman
London is one of the wealthiest cities on the planet, but also suffers from serious levels of poverty and unemployment. London's top 10% benefited ...Creating a Citizens' University on every high street (December 2010)
By Jack Graham, Mary Abdo, Simon Tucker
The Citizens' University, a new venture from the Young Foundation in partnership with theNational Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts ...
Learning and Social Innovation: Briefing on education and learning at the Young Foundation (November 2010)
The Young Foundation has a unique record of understanding educational needs and developing innovative new ways of meeting them. Our work today aims ...
Taking the temperature of local communities: The Wellbeing and Resilience Measure - WARM (October 2010)
By Nicola Bacon, Nina Mguni
As public resources shrink it is more important than ever that local areas have ways to think clearly about their priorities and needs. WARM is a ...Communities in the Big Society: shaping, managing, running services (October 2010)
By Saffron Woodcraft
The Big Society has refocused attention on the role for communities in shaping and potentially delivering local public services. David Cameron has ...Social Impact Bonds in Health (October 2010)
By John Loder
Social Impact Bonds are a potentially very powerful instrument for creating change and improvement. This short paper describes the basic structure of ...Innovations in Health: Approaches from the Regional Innovation Funds (October 2010)
By Geoff Mulgan, John Loder, Simon Tucker
Public services are currently facing an unprecedented set of challenges, and three main factors in combination define a new era.
Investing in Social Growth: Can the Big Society be more than a slogan? (September 2010)
Few would dispute that in the years ahead government will be able to do less, and society will have to do more. The Big Society has been promoted ...Community governance in England: Lessons from around the world
Approaches to community empowerment from France, the US, Brazil and India. Download a full pdf version of the report.A review of urban Community Land Trusts in England: Lessons and practical advice (September 2010)
This paper reviews the experience of urban community land trusts in England. It identifies practical lessons about how to establish a community land ...Why communities matter: What do people and places need from the Big Society?
By Nicola Bacon, Saffron Woodcraft
In the last decade neighbourhoods have been the target for a wide range of national initiatives and legislation with physical regeneration, social ...
The World that changes the World (September 2010)
The social ecosystem. A pulsating, thriving community of very diverse, at times divisive players, all driven by a common mission: to change the world ...
Plugged in, untapped: Using digital technologies to help young people learn to lead. (September 2010)
By Lauren Kahn, Mary Abdo
Digital technologies can be powerful tools for empowering young people to lead positive social change. But these new resources are no magic bullet, ...The Young Foundation and the Web: Digital Social Innovation (September 2010)
By Mandeep Hothi, Mary Abdo
Over 27 million Britons have a Facebook profile, 40 per cent of internet users upload self-created content to the web, and the same amount post ...What is an empowering authority? Community empowerment and organisational culture (August 2010)
This paper builds on the Young Foundation's practical experience with local authorities to develop and deepen understanding of how organisational ...Why do some people get involved? How to encourage local activism and help communities to self-organise (August 2010)
By Lucia Caistor-Arendar
This paper was produced as part of the Neighbourhood Futures programme, a partnership with six local authorities exploring the impact of the economic ...How can neighbourhoods be understood and defined? (August 2010)
This is a review of what is and is not known about neighbourhoods and communities. It starts to analyse the characteristics of neighbourhoods, ...
Turning the Corner: Beyond incarceration and re-offending (August 2010)
By Anton Shelupanov, Neil Reeder, Rushanara Ali
Recent political and economic upheavals have opened up opportunities for more radical reform of the justice system. But reformers have struggled to ...
Cohesive Communities (July 2010)
By Alessandra Buonfino, Geoff Mulgan, Rushanara Ali, Sarah Hewes
Cohesive Communities - the benefits of effective partnership working between local government and the voluntary and community sector.
Transforming Neighbourhoods: local work
By Saffron Woodcraft, Vicki Sellick
Learning from what is happening on the ground in communities was an integral part of the Transforming Neighbourhoods programme. Between April 2005 ...
Capital Ideas (July 2010)
By Geoff Mulgan, Jitinder Kohli
"It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something." Franklin D. Roosevelt, ...
Scaling New Heights (July 2010)
By Geoff Mulgan, Jitinder Kohli
President Clinton once said, "nearly every problem has been solved by someone, somewhere. The challenge of the 21st century is to find out what works ...
Opening Doors to Apprenticeships: Paper 2 Reflecting on ways forward (June 2010)
By Bethia McNeil, Marcia Brophy
Opening Doors to Apprenticeships: Reaching young people who are disadvantaged and disengaged from Apprenticeships is the second of two linked ...
Listen, Participate, Transform: A social media framework for local government (June 2010)
By Mandeep Hothi
This think-piece, the second in a series from the Young Foundation's Local 2.0 project, provides local authorities with a simple, practical framework ...
Capital Ambition Guide to Behaviour Change (May 2010)
Can public agencies succeed in changing individual behaviour to make society greener, healthier, more caring, less anti-social?
Innovating better ways of living in later life: context, examples and opportunities (May 2010)
By Carmel O'Sullivan, Geoff Mulgan
The paper looks at the changing facts of ageing as both a challenge and an opportunity. The focus is in particular on the many ways in which ...Innovation and ideas development - a summary (April 2010)
By Sophie Hostick-Boakye, Vicki Sellick
This paper rounds up London Collaborative work in this arena from May 2009: it includes three innovations methods, each introduced to the London ...
Fixing the Future (April 2010)
This paper is about how to mitigate the recession, and, where possible, turn crisis into opportunity. It has been prepared to provide a framework for ...Innovation in tough times (April 2010)
By Sophie Hostick-Boakye, Vicki Sellick
This paper explores social innovation in the current context of public sector spending cuts and a revitalized drive towards efficiencies in London's ...
Digging for the Future (March 2010)
By Charles Leadbeater
Where might we turn for inspiration for a comprehensive programme for radical change on the scale required to match the crisis we are in? A good ...Study on Social Innovation: for the Bureau of European Policy Advisors (March 2010)
By Geoff Mulgan, Julie Caulier-Grice , Lauren Kahn, Louise Pulford
The financial and economic crisis makes creativity and innovation in general and social innovation in particular even more important to foster ...
Innovation and value: new tools for local government in tough times (March 2010)
By Nicola Bacon
This paper has been written by Nicola Bacon, with inputs from Vicki Savage, Corinne Cordes, Brigitte Gohdes, Neil Reeder and Geoff Mulgan. It has ...
Public services and civil society working together: promising ideas for effective local partnerships (March 2010)
By Carmel O'Sullivan, Geoff Mulgan, Rushanara Ali, Vicki Sellick
The report gives anecdotal and empirical evidence to suggest outcomes are improved when public services and civil society work hand in hand, and ...
The Open Book of Social Innovation (March 2010)
By Geoff Mulgan, Julie Caulier-Grice , Robin Murray
Social Innovator Series: Ways to design, develop and grow social innovation.
Opening the door to apprenticeships (February 2010)
By Bethia McNeil, Marcia Brophy
Opening the door to apprenticeships is the first of two linked publications. This first report investigates the scale of the issues faced by young ...
The State of Happiness (January 2010)
By Geoff Mulgan, Marcia Brophy, Nicola Bacon, Nina Mguni
The State of Happiness brings together four years of groundbreaking work based on in-depth pilots - from teaching resilience to children in ...
Weathering the storm - Negotiating Transitions in Britain Today (January 2010)
By Beth Watts
This report looks at how people manage difficult and traumatic transitions. For some transitions such as leaving prison or care, unemployment or the ...
Helping or Hindering - Meeting Young People's Needs in Bedford (January 2010)
By Dan Vale
This report looks at the needs of young people in Bedford, particularly focusing on how those who are not in education, employment or training seek ...
Never Again: avoiding the mistakes of the past (January 2010)
By Nicola Bacon
From the projets in Paris suburbs, to Chicago's Cabrini-Green, to Broadwater Farm and Park Hill in Sheffield, high hopes and dreams have soured as, ...
Exploring household resilience in Teeside (January 2010)
The report, Exploring household resilience in Teeside looks at the lives of families living on low incomes in Teeside, exploring how people are ...
The Art of Public Strategy (December 2009)
By Geoff Mulgan
The Art of Public Strategy - Mobilising Power and Knowledge for the Common Good was published on Thursday 11 December and can be ordered from Amazon ...
Going green and beating the blues (December 2009)
All over the world communities are grappling with two different agendas: on the one hand how to make their areas environmentally sustainable; on the ...
Sinking and swimming: understanding Britain's unmet needs (December 2009)
By Carmel O'Sullivan, Geoff Mulgan, Rushanara Ali, Will Norman
This is a study of who is sinking and who is swimming in Britain today. Based on new analysis of statistical data, case studies, surveys and hundreds ...Incentive cards and behaviour change in London (November 2009)
By Vicki Sellick
This report by the Young Foundation as part of the London Collaborative was commissioned by Capital Ambition. It considers the opportunities to ...
Taking the lead - Youth leadership in theory and practice (October 2009)
By Lauren Kahn, Rushanara Ali, Sarah Hewes
This report, launched by The Youth of Today project in which the Young Foundation is a consortium partner, asks: What is youth leadership? Why does ...To move or not to move? (October 2009)
By Jim Ogg
This report documents the findings of a research project designed to increase knowledgeand understanding about the residential relocation behaviour ...
Danger and Opportunity (September 2009)
By Robin Murray
Social Innovator Series: Ways to design, develop and grow social innovation. This volume - part of a series on methods and issues in social ...
Solutions for entrenched deprivation on small estates, Summary Report (September 2009)
By Mandeep Hothi, Saffron Woodcraft
In January 2009 we began a project looking into entrenched deprivation on three small estates in England. We have been working in Coventry, South ...
Parenting and Wellbeing: knitting families together (September 2009)
By Marcia Brophy, Nicola Bacon, Yvonne Roberts
Parenting and wellbeing: knitting families together argues that parenting support often fails because it ignores the wellbeing of parents ...
Social Venturing (July 2009)
By Geoff Mulgan, Julie Caulier-Grice , Robin Murray
Social Innovator Series: Ways to design, develop and grow social innovation. This volume - part of a series on methods and issues in social ...Joining the Conversation: an introduction to hyperlocal media (July 2009)
By Mandeep Hothi, Saffron Woodcraft
This paper provides an overview of hyperlocal uses of the internet and how they can be useful to local government. Published by the Young ...
The Leys (July 2009)
By Corinne Cordes, Saffron Woodcraft
In May 2009, the Young Foundation was asked by The Wates Foundation to look into previous attempts at regeneration and priorities for the Leys estate ...
Thinking about Apprenticeships (July 2009)
By Bethia McNeil, Marcia Brophy
The research report entitled Thinking about Apprenticeships explores the perceptions of Apprenticeships amongst young people, parents and employers ...
Grit: The skills for success and how they are grown (June 2009)
By Yvonne Roberts
Grit: The skills for success and how they are grown argues that Britain's schools need to prioritise grit and self-discipline. Drawing on evidence ...
Breakthrough Cities: Young Foundation/British Council report on creativity and social innovation in cities (June 2009)
By Alessandra Buonfino, Charles Leadbeater, Geoff Mulgan, Lauren Kahn, Rushanara Ali
Citizen engagement and accountability: prospects for the future? (May 2009)
By Nicola Bacon
Engagement and accountability have become mainstream concepts in the public sector. What will this mean in the future as the recession fuels an ...Metropolitan metrics: measuring success of a collaborative city (April 2009)
Metropolitan metrics: measuring success of a collaborative city. Round up of background work and options, April 2009 The London Collaborative ...Collaborative projects on youth crime (April 2009)
By Anton Shelupanov, Nicola Bacon, Sophie Hostick-Boakye, Vicki Sellick
A collaborative workstream on youth crime, providing research, intensive support and innovation consultants to help develop and support innovative ...
More than good ideas: the power of innovation in local government (March 2009)
Following a successful chief executives' workshop at the Local Government Association (LGA) conference in July 2008, the IDeA, the National Endowment ...Managing the risks of neighbourhood governance
By Saffron Woodcraft
This discussion paper puts forward a framework for managing the risks of neighbourhood governance:
How local government devolves and why
Why work in neighbourhoods and communities? This briefing, commissioned by LGA and IDeA, looks at why local government devolves, decentralises and ...Neighbourhood working and organisational culture (January 2009)
Neighbourhood working and organisational culture: A scoping paper for the Neighbourhood Action Network. Over the last decade there has been a ...
Receding Tide: Understanding unmet needs in a harsher economic climate (January 2009)
This interim report warns of the hidden psychological dangers of the recession - unmet psychological needs. Much publicity surrounds the economic ...Solutions for entrenched deprivation on small estates (January 2009)
By Mandeep Hothi, Saffron Woodcraft
There are many small social housing estates, where residents experience profound deprivation and disadvantage. These can be amongst the most ...
Meet the parents: stories of teenage pregnancy and parenthood in Lewisham (2009)
By Corinne Cordes, Vicki Sellick , Will Norman
The Young Foundation was commissioned by the London Borough of Lewisham to look at how perceptions and expectations of young people in the borough ...
Valuing Family, Valuing Work: British Muslim Women and the Labour Market (October 2008)
By Zamila Bunglawala
A new report on second generation British Muslim women shows that although most want to work only 49% of them have a job - and the rest face severe ...
Neighbourhood Taskforces (October 2008)
By Vicki Sellick
Conflict exists at all levels of society, from the most localised of settings where neighbours bicker over the height of hedges to its most extreme ...
Local Wellbeing: Can We Measure It? (September 2008)
The concept and language of wellbeing was first introduced at the local level through the Local Government Act 2000. The Act included a new power of ...Understanding neighbourliness and belonging (September 2008)
By Corinne Cordes, Mandeep Hothi
Understanding neighbourliness and belonging: A scoping paper for the Neighbourhood Action Network (published September 2008, updated in August 2010)Devolving funds to local communities (August 2008)
By Nicola Bacon
Nationally, much emphasis has recently been placed on the opportunities to devolve funds to localities as a way to promote spending effectiveness, as ...Combining research methods in a study of the UK's unmet needs (July 2008)
The complexity of trying to understand and examine social needs in society has highlighted the fact that a mixed methods approach to research is ...Deep and persistent exclusion: Interrogating the idea of the 'bottom 2.5 percent' (June 2008)
By Beth Watts, Dan Vale
Written by Beth Watts and Dan Vale as part of the Mapping Needs programme, this paper explores the conceptualization of the 'bottom 2.5 percent' ...
The London Collaborative: State of Play (June 2008)
An overview of the London Collaborative programme. Download a full pdf of the publication.
Good and Bad Power (June 2008)
“Good and Bad Power” explores the ideals and betrayals of government, from the ancient to the modern world.
Good and Bad Power (paperback)
£9.99 + P&P | Add to Basket “Good and Bad Power” explores the ideals and betrayals of government, from the ancient to the modern world.
Just Another Emperor? (June 2008)
Business involvement in philanthropy is increasing day by day, but is it a blessing, a curse, or somewhere in between? 'Just Another Emperor? The ...
Neighbourliness + Empowerment = Wellbeing: Is there a formula for happy communities? (June 2008)
By Geoff Mulgan, Mandeep Hothi, Marcia Brophy, Nicola Bacon
This report finds that neighbourhood and community empowerment has three effects which increase wellbeing:Developing leadership capability for a collaborative city (April 2008)
By Saffron Woodcraft
In this paper, we explored the increasing requirement for leaders to make complex judgements, to rethink and redesign systems, and to find ...A Collaborative City? A snapshot of current collaboration across the public sector in London (April 2008)
This paper sketches a picture of current capacity for joint and strategic working across tiers of government and public services in London. It looks ...Escape from the Titanic (March 2008)
By Anton Shelupanov
The British criminal justice system is failing by many measures. Costs are rising as is the prison population. The sheer pressure on the system is ...
The Collaborative City: Future Scenarios (March 2008)
This report accompanied the launch report and includes the six scenarios developed as part of the early
Discovery, Argument & Action: How civil society responds to changing needs (March 2008)
By Geoff Mulgan, Julie Caulier-Grice
Civil society in its many forms plays vital roles in discovering and then meeting social needs - from poverty and disability to discrimination. This ...
The Collaborative City: Working together to shape London's future (March 2008)
The London Collaborative was a partnership led by the Young Foundation, in association with the Office for Public Management (OPM) and Common ...The Role of Private Equity in Social and Sustainable Development (March 2008)
By Simon Tucker
This Young Foundation report on private equity and sustainable development gives an overview of current trends and engagement activities in the ...
How to develop a local charter: A guide for local authorities (January 2008)
By Vicki Sellick
This Young Foundation guide was launched by Hazel Blears MP, the then Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, at the Annual New ...
Transformers: How local areas innovate to address changing social needs (January 2008)
By Geoff Mulgan, Nicola Bacon, Nusrat Faizullah, Saffron Woodcraft
Innovation in public services is going to prove crucial to the UK's ability to meet the social challenges of the 21st century. However, at the ...Mind and Matter: The importance of psychological needs for social policy (2008)
By Beth Watts, Dan Vale
This paper contributes to the development of the Young Foundation's research programme Mapping emerging and unmet needs in the UK. It argues that ...
Ward councillors and community leadership: A future perspective (November 2007)
By Saffron Woodcraft
A study for the Joseph Rowntree Foundation by the Young Foundation and LGiU.Making the most of local innovations. (November 2007)
What makes places innovative and how local innovations can be best exploited (November 2007) This report investigates the factors that make certain ...
Transforming Neighbourhoods: Lessons from Local Work in Fifteen Areas (October 2007)
By Nicola Bacon, Saffron Woodcraft, Vicki Sellick
For the last decade, there has been increased political focus - both in Whitehall and in local government - on the need to boost opportunities for ...
Transforming Neighbourhoods (September 2007)
By Saffron Woodcraft
A collection of stories from the Young Foundation about innovative and inspirational neighbourhood initiatives. They originate from a consortium of ...
In and out of sync: The challenge of growing social innovations (Sept 2007)
By Geoff Mulgan, Rushanara Ali
It aims to provide a theoretically and empirically grounded guide for the many people involved in social innovation: innovators, funders, ...
Improving Small Scale Grant Funding (July 2007)
By Julie Caulier-Grice
A discussion paper, supported by The Office of the Third Sector, that brings together both domestic and international evidence to guide decisions on ...
Good Neighbours (July 2007)
Housing associations could do more to work with local authorities to give their residents a voice i n local communities and neighbourhoods. ...
Why involve and what are the outcomes? The duty to involve for best value authorities (June 2007)
By Vicki Sellick
This briefing was commissioned by the Communities and Local Government Department to inform the development of the 'Duty to Involve' - a duty which ...Shaping and measuring progress: new directions in using knowledge to achieve social goals (June 2007)
By Geoff Mulgan
This report was presented by Geoff Mulgan at the Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD) conference held in Istanbul in June ...
Contentious citizens: Civil society's role in campaigning for social change (May 2007)
The Young Foundation, in partnership with the Carnegie UK Trust launched a report entitled Contentious citizens: civil society's role in campaigning ...
Ready or Not? Taking innovation in the public sector seriously (April 2007)
By Geoff Mulgan
According to conventional wisdom, public organisations cannot innovate as they lack the competitive spur that drives businesses to create new ...Ward councillors and neighbourhood working: Lessons learnt and a future perspective (March 2007)
This presentation summarises findings and lessons from two research and practical projects:
Parliamentary Inquiry into the Role of Councillors (March 2007)
By Saffron Woodcraft
Mapping Rural Needs in Britain and Ireland (March 2007)
By Alessandra Buonfino
This Young Foundation report maps unmet rural needs in Britain and Ireland, it draws on both original research and on the Mapping Britain’s ...
Social Innovation: what it is, why it matters, how it can be accelerated (March 2007)
By Ben Sanders, Geoff Mulgan, Rushanara Ali, Simon Tucker
This report examines how social innovation happens in NGOs, the public sector, movements, networks and markets. Following on from ‘Social Silicon ...
Measuring Family Support in Europe (January 2007)
By Jim Ogg
A collection of papers that will be of strong interest to any researchers concerned with developing their own conceptualizations and tools for ...
London Voices, London Lives (2007)
London Voices, London Lives is unique: ordinary Londoners, in their own voices, tell about ordinary London lives. Interviews with over a hundred ...The world in our neighbourhoods (December 2006)
By Nicola Bacon
The world in our neighbourhoods: a briefing from the Young Foundation (December 2006, updated August 2010)This paper looks at the particular ...
Cities in Transition (December 2006)
By Geoff Mulgan, Phoebe Griffith, Rushanara Ali
The question of how we live together under conditions of rapid demographic change and economic and social transformation is at the very heart of ...
The Rise and Rise of Meritocracy (December 2006)
It is now fifty years since Micheal Young wrote The Rise of the Meritocracy - a sociological fantasy set in the twenty-first century and portraying a ...
How local government devolves and why - Part 2 (November 2006)
By Paul Hilder
Part 2: Developing local strategies. This briefing, commissioned by LGA and IDeA, outlines the building-blocks, tactics and approaches which can ...
Where's the Money? Neighbourhood governance and the future of local finance (November 2006)
By Paul Hilder
Where’s the Money? Neighbourhood governance and the future of local finance. This paper presents recommendations on how the reform of local ...
Parties for the Public Good (October 2006)
By Geoff Mulgan, Rushanara Ali
This report – backed by a major Ipsos/MORI poll - warns against ‘insider’s stitch up on party funding’ and calls for reversal of a 20 ...
Life begins at 60: what kind of NHS after 2008? (October 2006)
Can the NHS evolve into a national wellness service – capable of maximising people’s health – rather than just treating us when we get ill? ...Positional Goods: New inequalities and the importance of relative position (September 2006)
The Young Foundation’s project on Positional Goods explored the emergence of new inequalities in modern Britain and the importance of relative ...Understanding the barriers: The challenges of citizen engagement (July 2006)
By Vicki Sellick
Powerpoint presentation detailing lessons of community and citizen engagement from the Transforming Neighbourhoods programme. Download a full pdf ...
Bridging the Gap: The London Olympics 2012 and South Asian - owned Businesses in Brick Lane and Green Street (July 2006)
This report which reveals a significant gap between the activities of the London Olympics 2012 development agencies and the expectations of small ...Local democracy and neighbourhood governance - Paul Hilder (July 2006)
Democracy can flourish in many different ways. It is presently evolving as fresh demands for and practices of participation fall in with and ...The potential for neighbourhood involvement in service delivery (July 2006)
By Saffron Woodcraft
This report written by Saffron Woodcraft (James) discusses the potential for communities to play a significant role in designing, planning and ...
Neighbouring in Contemporary Britain (June 2006)
By Alessandra Buonfino, Paul Hilder
In recent decades increased mobility, longer life expectancy and the breakdown of the extended family have changed the way we live our lives, and the ...North East London: a case study of globalisation (June 2006)
By Nicola Bacon
This paper was put together for the 2006 Tällberg Forum exploring the impact of globalisation on the people, communities and economies of three ...
Mapping Britains unmet needs (June 2006)
By Geoff Mulgan
We were asked to look at needs in Britain by The Commission on Unclaimed Assets and give a rough assessment of the most pressing unmet needs of 60 ...
What is the Role of the Community in Neighbourhood Governance? (May 2006)
By Saffron Woodcraft
This report summarises the main discussion points and recommendations that were generated at a seminar held by the Young Foundation, bassac and CDF ...
Double Devolution (May 2006)
Making the case for ‘double devolution’ this collection of essays calls for a far-ranging programme, shifting power from Whitehall and ...European Baby Boomer Generation (March 2006)
By Jim Ogg
Young Foundation Fellow Jim Ogg gave a working paper during the ESRC Social Science Week in March 2006 on the European Baby Boomer Generation: In a ...
Social Silicon Valleys (March 2006)
By Geoff Mulgan, Nick Wilkie, Rushanara Ali, Simon Tucker, Tom Liptrot
Mapping value in the built Environment (March 2006)
By Geoff Mulgan
The Value Mapping project was commissioned by CABE in late 2005 and was managed by the Young Foundation, drawing on a team with experience of ...
Tools and processes for neighbourhood problem solving (February 2006)
By Saffron Woodcraft
As the agenda for future reforms of English governance at local and neighbourhood level develops, discussions have been underway in policy circles ...
The New East End: Kinship, Race and Conflict (February 2006)
By Geoff Dench, Kate Gavron
The New East End is a wide-ranging analysis of life in one of the most diverse places in Britain. Returning to the East End four decades after ...
Jamaican Hands Across the Atlantic (2006)
‘Jamaican Hands Across the Atlantic’ is a study of some 45 families originating in Jamaica who also have members in Britain, the US and Canada. ...
Porcupines in Winter (January 2006)
Porcupines in Winter is a collection of fascinating essays which paint a compelling picture of how Britain and British society have changed and of ...
Seeing the wood for the trees (November 2005)
The ideas presented in this discussion paper are in the form of an indicative draft, and there is substantially more thinking to be done. In the ...Social Housing Allocations and Family Networks (October 2005)
By Rachel Abbot
The Young Foundation, together with the Institute of Community Studies before it, have long been interested in the effects of housing allocation ...
Heatwave (October 2005)
By Jim Ogg
Young Foundation Working Paper No.2 - October 2005
Wide Open (April 2005)
By Geoff Mulgan, , Tom Steinberg
Open source methods and their future potential: In defiance of the conventional wisdom of modern business, open source methods have led the main ...
Young at Eighty: the prolific public life of Michael Young (2005)
‘Young at Eighty’ is a collection of essays in tribute to Michael Young by some of the people who have been influenced by him during his ...The Grandmother Project (May 2004)
By Belinda Brown, Geoff Dench
Institute of Community Studies Working Paper No.7 - May 2004 As one of the activities to mark the 50th Anniversary of the Institute of Community ...
Curry Capital (April 2004)
By Sean Carey
Institute of Community Studies Working Paper No.6 - April 2004: "Curry Capital is an exception to the Institute of Community Study's publication ...
Shrinking to Grow? (2004)
Leipzig and Manchester are superficially very different cities. Leipzig’s Communist government ran down its industrial base, which almost ...
Growing the European urban system (July 2003)
By Peter Hall
Institute of Community Studies Working Paper No.3 - July 2003
Exploring ethnic tensions through locality (July 2003)
By Belinda Brown
Institute of Community Studies Working Paper No.4 - July 2003
White Immigrants: A portrait of the Polish community in London (July 2003)
By Belinda Brown
Institute of Community Studies Working Paper No.5 - July 2003
Living Alone in Later Life (January 2003)
By Jim Ogg
More people are living alone today in Britain than at any other time. The 2001 Census reveals that across the UK one-person households now make up ...
Grandparenting in Britain: a baseline study (January 2003)
People today are spending a larger proportion of their lives as grandparents than every before. Anyone hoping to understand modern family life needs ...
The Meaning of the Jubilee (June 2002)
By Belinda Brown, Elaine Bauer, Geoff Dench, Paul Barker, Peter Hall
Institute of Community Studies Working Paper No.1 - June 2002
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