Covid showed us collaboration is for life, not just for pandemics
Anna Randle, Collaborate’s CEO, asks what did we learn from the pandemic and how can this help us build healthier communities now? The pandemic is an…
From ‘Me’ to ‘We’ — Lessons on leading as a systems activist
Tackling complex social problems requires you to act beyond the boundaries of your organisation to change the systems in which these problems are embedded. In…
What does it take to change local systems?
What does it take to change local systems? Following on from two previous blogs (here and here) about our work in partnership with NPC as evaluation and…
Building a Collaborative Society: Reflections from Theodora Cadbury, founder of Xenia
In January we published our Manifesto for a Collaborative Society. Here we explore a ‘green shoot’ that helps demonstrate what a collaborative society looks like and…
Transforming local places: The potential of Human Learning Systems
Dawn Plimmer explores key ideas from the new Public Service for the Real World ebook about the potential of Human Learning Systems (HLS) in local places. Asits…
Human Learning Systems: the role of local authorities
Following the recent publication of Human Learning Systems: Public Service for the Real World — the latest instalment in a series of HLS resources — in this…
Whitehall is failing to learn Covid’s biggest lesson
This article was originally published in PolicticsHome, on the 1st July 2021. Human Learning Systems is the type of bold and radical vision that “building back…
Evaluating systems change (during the pandemic): Lessons for Save the Children’s Early Learning Communities Programme
This is the second in a series of joint blogs by Collaborate and NPC. It has been posted on both organisation’s websites. In a previous blog, we set…
Consultancy in Complexity
Collaborate CIC is a social change agency that helps people, organisations, services and systems to collaborate for social change. We try to influence the debate…
Evaluating systems change: developing a Maturity Model for Save the Children’s Early Learning Communities
Since Autumn 2019, Collaborate and NPC have been working as learning and evaluation partners to Save the Children’s Early Learning Communities. Our partnership combines Collaborate’s…