WHAT INSPIRES US
The following are articles, research, concepts and people that guide our work.
Feel free to explore to deepen your learning.
ARTICLE - Kania, J., Williams, J., Schmitz, P., Brady, S., Kramer, M., & Juster, J. S. (2021). Stanford Social Innovation Review, 20(1), 38–45. https://doi.org/10.48558/RN5M-CA77
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Collective impact must emphasizes advancing equity through learning, aligning, and integrating actions to achieve population and systems-level change. There are five key strategies for centering equity in collective impact efforts: grounding work in data and context, focusing on systems change, shifting power within collaboratives, listening to and acting with communities, and building equity leadership and accountability.
ARTICLE - Milligan, K., Zerda, J., & Kania, J. (2022). Stanford Social Innovation Review. https://doi.org/10.48558/MDBH-DA38
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Collective impact efforts must prioritize working together in more relational ways to find systemic solutions to social problems.
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Learn more from the Collective Change Lab : How Systems Shift
ARTICLE - David Frydlinger, Oliver Hart, and Kate Vitasek. Harvard Business Review, 2019
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A shift from traditional transactional contracts to more flexible, collaborative agreements that foster long-term strategic partnerships. By focusing on shared goals, mutual benefits, and adaptability, companies can build stronger, more resilient business relationships that are better equipped to handle uncertainties and changes in the business environment.
CONCEPT - International Foundation for Integrated Care
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A comprehensive framework for addressing complex health and social care challenges through collaborative, person-centered approaches. These pillars emphasize shared values, population health strategies, community empowerment, workforce development, innovative governance models, digital solutions, and holistic evaluation methods to create more effective, equitable, and sustainable health and care systems
LEARNBOOK - The Good Shift, Burkett, I. (2024)
This Learnbook shares valuable learnings from real-world experiences and presents four key insights for systemic change initiatives, emphasizing the importance of learning forward in complex domains, adaptive collaboration across multiple sectors, distributed leadership, and the strategic use of human-centered data.
CONCEPT - Nurture Development
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Asset Based Community Development (ABCD) is an approach to sustainable community-driven development. Beyond the mobilisation of a particular community, it is concerned with how to link micro-assets to the macro-environment. Its premise is that communities can drive the development process themselves by identifying and mobilizing existing, but often unrecognised assets. Thereby responding to challenges and creating local social improvement and economic development.
ARTICLE - Liz Weaver. The Tamarack Institute, 2021.
Collaboration is not just one action, it's a spectrum.
The Collaboration Spectrum, provides a comprehensive framework for understanding different levels of collaboration, from competition to full integration and offers insights into various aspects of collaborative efforts, including types, leadership, governance, and outcomes, aiming to support more purposeful and effective collaboration in community change initiatives.
ARTICLE - Bryan Walker and Sarah Soule. Harvard Business Review, 2019
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Successful cultural transformation in organizations necessitates a grassroots movement rather than top-down directives. To effectively change company culture, leaders should focus on framing the issue in a way that stirs emotion, creating a sense of urgency, and mobilizing employees at all levels to drive and sustain the desired cultural shift.
BOOK - Darcia Narvaez and Don Trent Jacobs, 2022
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A powerful compilation of Indigenous wisdom that offers a transformative perspective on our relationship with nature and each other. This book presents 28 excerpts from Indigenous leaders worldwide, accompanied by insightful analyses, to guide readers towards a more sustainable, interconnected future by contrasting the Kinship worldview with the dominant Eurocentric paradigm
ARTICLES - Stanford Social Innovation Review (Winter 2025) | Skoll Foundation
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Transforming entire ecosystems requires more investment in social innovators who can build bridges across sectors and between disparate parts of a system to drive collective action and impact—all with a greater emphasis on equity, trust, and partnership.
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APPROACH AND BOOK - Bill Sharpe​​
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Three Horizons is a simple and intuitive framework for thinking about the future. The framework maps a shift from the established patterns of the first horizon to the emergence of new patterns in the third, via the transition activity of the second. The central idea is that the three horizons are all always existing in the present moment, and that we have evidence about the future in how people (including ourselves) are behaving now. The outcome of Three Horizons work is a map of transformational potential which enables us to act with more skill, freedom and creativity in the present, both individually and together.
ARTICLE - Sunnie Giles. Harvard Business Review, 2016
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A groundbreaking survey of 195 global leaders reveals the most crucial leadership competencies, focusing on soft skills and emotional intelligence. The study identifies five key themes that are essential for effective leadership: demonstrating strong ethics, empowering others, fostering connection, embracing new ideas, and nurturing growth.
REPORT - European Commission: Joint Research Centre, Dupoux, M., Gaudeul, A., Baggio, M., Bruns, H. et al. 2025
This report examines the transformative role of behavioural insights (BI) in EU policymaking, advocating for integrating BI early in the policy cycle to enhance policy effectiveness. It underscores the importance of BI in identifying synergies and conflicts between policies across different areas, thereby improving policy coherence. It advocates for the use of BI in combination with systems analysis to achieve systemic changes.
