Stories

Welcome to our stories page - here you’ll find a collection of insights and learnings from place-based work, alongside our team and partners’ thoughts and reflections.
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Blog
Place-based working : More than the sum of its parts through building fields of practice
Exploring how field building could be a solution to straddling the need for community centred place-based work and influencing systems change.
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Case Study
Lessons on UK Field Building from Farming the Future
Bonnie Hewson, Director at Farming the Future, is a leading thinker in UK philanthropy and place-based change work. We caught up with her to discuss the journey, aims and challenges further.
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The framework moves through four stages: Understanding place, community power and collaborative leadership, Systems change and impact area
Framework : Theory of Place and Systems Change
Our Theory of Place is a developing framework that explores the complexity, nuances and stages of place-based work.
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Field Building for Population-Level Change by The Bridgespan Group
The Bridgespan Group report on how funders and practitioners can increase the odds of success and collaborate to accelerate social impact. Written by L. Farnham, E. Nothmann, Z. Tamaki, and C. Daniels.
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The End of Poverty: Eight pathways that are ending poverty in Canada by Tamarack Institute
This guide presents high-impact policies, evidence-based models, and innovative ideas that poverty reduction practitioners across all sectors can act as we work collectively toward the end of poverty in Canada.
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How Field Catalysts Accelerate Collective Impact for Stanford Social Innovation Review
A look at how the Tamarack Institute united the efforts of local collective impact initiatives across Canada to accelerate systems change in support of a living wage. By S. Cheuy, M. Cabaj and L. Weaver.
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