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
How data shapes our understanding of racial justice
“We need a more open, honest and humble exploration that involves the community.” Lela Kogbara. Director Global Black Thrive
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Blog
Centring equity and place-based approaches in systemic transformation
In this paper we explore what equity means in place-based change and systems transformation.You can als
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Galvanising community action through a Citizen Assembly
How Black Thrive and Catalyst4Change brought people together in Birmingham to start building a movement to change mental health and well-being for local Black people.
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Data Democracy in Place-based Change
Exploring how data can be used inclusively with community participation. Written by Dominic Oldfield and Lela Kogbara.
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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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Collective Impact for Stanford Social Innovation Review
Large-scale social change requires broad cross-sector coordination, yet the social sector remains focused on the isolated intervention of individual organizations.
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Collective Impact 3.0 by Tamarack Institute
As part of Tamarack Institute's Community Change Series 2016, Mark Cabaj and Liz Weaver put forward fresh thinking around five ways to build the next iteration of the Collective Impact Framework.
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More Than Infrastructure by Place Matters
Read the Place Matters 2021 report on how to enable place based working. This report was written collaboratively by John Hitchin, Emily Sun, Jo Blundell and Jennifer McConnel.
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Centering Equity in Collective Impact for Stanford Social Innovation Review
Article for the Standford Social Innovation Review by J. Kania, J. Williams, P. Schmitz, S. Brady, M Kramer & J Splansky Juster reports on using the collective impact approach and how it has taught them equity is key.
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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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