Looking beyond beneficiaries
The idea of not putting service users at the centre of strategy feels like heresy. But more often than not, it’s the right call to look beyond them.
Tag Archives: Innovation
The mother of collaboration
Why setting goals that you can’t achieve is the key to population-level social change
Taking the quick wins
Quick wins are attractive because the team knows how to do them; you’ll have something to show for it and they’ll feel they’ve made progress. But there will always be more where they came from…
Commercial Charity Book
How business thinking can help non-profits grow impact and income. Everything you need to know about earning income and using business techniques to deliver social change.
CEO Breakfast Seminars
Our twice-yearly, invitation-only seminars are the only place where CEOs of the UK’s largest charities come together to share their insights and experiences around the sector’s greatest challenges and opportunities.
The key to increasing agility
Having the agility to rapidly shift focus and resources is invaluable, not just for disaster response charities, but for any organisation that wants to increase its impact.
Creating the ripple effect
The ripple effect is a powerful concept: the idea that an organisation can create impact far beyond its own footprint. And there’s plenty of evidence that it works.
Pleasing all the people
Being a professional means knowing that you can’t please all the people all the time, and experience means that you have those conversations up front.
Engaging with business
One of the themes in my recent conversations with the sector, is the desire to engage better with businesses. There are two opportunities: income and mission, but one is far greater than the other.
Distinguishing innovation
Within the media stories about Jamie Oliver’s restaurant chain going into administration, are hidden lessons for many charities.
