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Community Powered Change: Telling stories, growing ideas
Publication 8 May 2017
Part of our places programme, Amplify NI was a major five-year initiative to support people in Northern Ireland to take action together, to create fairer communities where everyone can thrive. The programme brought people and organisations from all parts of
European Policy Brief: Social Innovation in Health and Social Care
Publication 6 May 2017
This policy brief on Social Innovation in Health and Social Care is based on results of the EC H2020 funded project Social Innovation: Driving Force of Social Change (SI-DRIVE). Highlights of this policy field are given from results of a
Health and Social Care Policy Field Summary Report
Publication 6 May 2017
Social innovation in health and social care is strongly determined by social values, culture and societal expectations. Answers to questions such as, who should pay for care? and, who deserves care? differ across contexts and come together to shape health
Treating mental health in the community: A policy review
Repository entry 1 May 2017
How much do we know about the most effective ways for communities to support people with mental health problems? This paper reviews the quality of evidence available on the effectiveness of different community approaches to mental health. It looks at 48 reviews covering 827 primary experimental and non-experimental studies, published between 20…
We still haven’t found what we’re looking for: Uncharted investment in Charities, Social Enterprises and Community Businesses
Repository entry 1 May 2017
This report aims to help community businesses understand their finance options beyond banks and social investment, including opportunities presented through the local community, friends and family, local authorities and other public bodies. Community businesses may also find that the terms of finance available from such sources have relatively …
Humanity at Work – MONDRAGON, a social innovation ecosystem case study
Publication 5 April 2017
This research report on the MONDRAGON Corporation, the largest industrial Co-operative in the world, explores it as a social innovation ecosystem, a highly successful and competitive way of transforming people’s lives for the better through shared ownership. MONDRAGON is a
Empowered Communities in the 2020s: Feedback on the first 50 responses to the opening survey
Repository entry 1 April 2017
As part of the scoping stage for the ‘Empowered Communities in the 2020s’ project, we invited people interested in contributing to the research to complete a short survey asking how they would like to be involved; what they felt was most important to help communities become more empowered and vibrant; and for examples of where we might look for…
Realising Ambition Programme Insights: Issue 8
Publication 29 March 2017
The Realising Ambition consortium, of which The Young Foundation was a part, produced a series of 12 Programme Insights rather than writing a long evaluation report at the end of the five-year programme. In our eighth Programme Insight, we consider
Realising Ambition Programme Insights: Issue 7
Publication 29 March 2017
The Realising Ambition consortium, of which The Young Foundation was a part, produced a series of 12 Programme Insights rather than writing a long evaluation report at the end of the five-year programme. In our seventh Programme Insight, we consider
Communities Can: Final Evaluation Report
Publication 22 March 2017
Communities Can was a 2-year pilot to test how best to provide organisational development support for small community groups, set out to demonstrate how they can be supported, and what they can achieve as a result. The Big Lottery Fund and
Researching the local politics and practices of radical Community Development Projects in 1970s Britain
Repository entry 1 March 2017
This article re-evaluates the British Community Development Project (CDP) of the 1970s. It sets the national Community Development Project in context, as an experimental programme of action-research in twelve ‘deprived’ areas, set up in response to the rediscovery of poverty in the late 1960s. It explains the rationale for revisit…
Facing Forward: How Small and Medium Charities can Adapt to Survive
Repository entry 1 March 2017
Facing Forward was written by Charlotte Ravenscroft, Evidential Consulting, and describes 10 trends to watch in a changing operating landscape with recommendations on how small charities should respond. With the impact of Brexit, economic uncertainty and growing pressures on local government adding uncertainty for the future of small charities,…