Humour & laughter: health, imune system, wellbeing, etc. follow links at bottom to more fab free PDFs. To be linked to emotional intelligence please! - my lovely charity chums our humour, EI & Social Intelligence will help us reach learners and service users more effectively. Long live fun & humour ;o) convert the toxic avengers!
Yes, I guess I hadn't thought about it before but it does help that Christine and I give lots of laughs in our double act! You must see our impression of me (being me) talking to Gareth Malone (acted by CWP). This is one element that helps us to bond with our learners.
Conventional wisdom says that scaling social innovation starts with strengthening internal management capabilities. This study of 12 high-impact nonprofits,however, shows that real social change happens when organizations go outside their own walls and find creative ways to enlist the help of others.
"Building Cohesive Communities: What frontline staff and community activists need to know
20/10/2009 This CLG publication provides guidance at a glance for frontine workers on techniques which can help build community cohesion."
"2007-08 Citizenship Survey: Empowered Communities Topic Report
02/11/2009 Using 2007-08 Citizenship Survey data, this report provides an in-depth examination of community empowerment: whether people feel they can influence local and national decisions; whether they would like to be more involved in decision making; what would make it easier to influence decision making; and how people would influence decisions if they wanted to. It also looks at people's trust in institutions and what activities people actually take part in (civic activism, civic consultation, civic participation and volunteering).
It is one of a series of annual reports from the 2007-08 Citizenship Survey. Other reports cover Volunteering and Charitable Giving, Identity and Values, Community Cohesion and Race, Religion and Equalities."
An inspirational source of content from the top thinkers, business entrepeneurs, and top writers. Fab free resource. When you are stuck for inspiraiton, check it out here!
This one links really well to the harvard business review free pdf on vision, strategy, business model and tactics (free download) found here: http://cli.gs/1NE976
For-profit executives use business models—such as “low-cost provider” or “the razor and the razor blade"—as a shorthand way to describe and understand the way companies are built and sustained. Nonprofit executives, to their detriment, are not as explicit about their funding models and have not had an equivalent lexicon—until now.
Initiatives include:
the ‘electronic village hall strategy’,ensuring that
everyone has free access to ICT at a time and
place convenient to them; the development of a
pool of community e-champions;
Thanks, Will. Some really useful language and phrases to nick! I like social inclusion through ICT... waiting to hear back from CVS if Reaching Communities is the fund for our project.
Chris from CLP read this - download the free PDF - the Trust Economy! - it is really, really fab and very useful for us to understand in the charity sector
Putting science of influence to work in fundraising: The Power of Persuasion - Standford Social Innovation (free PDF). This is based on the psychological principles found in the authors book! - by the same title
Fabulous poster on the factors and ways in which experiences can be engineered. What I love about this poster is that it takes inot account perception and emtions ;-) it even shows media & comms channels, as well as what departments would be involed in making things happen ;-)