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Caring for your heart
Maslaha's new health DVD combines faith and medical information to tackle the high health inequalities in UK's Muslim communities. Our ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Family and Kinship in East London
First published in 1957, this vivid and touching picture of family life in the East End of the 1950s is one of the great pioneering works of modern ...Global Academy Inaugural Programme in Bilbao
If you are viewing this page, you have been contacted by the Global Academy regarding your participation in the Inaugural Session at Bilbao. Please ...
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 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. ...
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 ...
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 ...
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. ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Michael Young DVD
Michael Young (1915 - 2002) This is a shortened version of an interview with Michael Young which took place on 22 March 1994. The interviewers were ...
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:
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 ...
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 ...
Shrinking to Grow? (2004)
Leipzig and Manchester are superficially very different cities. Leipzig’s Communist government ran down its industrial base, which almost ...
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 ...
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 ...
Social Silicon Valleys (March 2006)
By Geoff Mulgan, Nick Wilkie, Rushanara Ali, Simon Tucker, Tom Liptrot
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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