The Knowledge Development & Exchange (KDE) Hub for Mental Health Promotion and Here to There Consulting Inc. recently partnered up to apply - and adapt - several scaling frameworks to provide guidance to mental health innovators in Canada in scaling up their promising ideas. Check it them out at the...
The Multi-Level Perspective Framework reminds us that changing the systems underlying stubborn societal challenges requires a strategy of mutually reinforcing initiatives, across multiple levels of action, over time....
Social innovators now routinely turn to the process of prototyping as a low cost, low risk and fast way to develop and test complex challenges While there are an increasing number and variety of resources available on how to create prototypes, there are relatively few thorough resources on how to...
Evaluations are more likely to be 'used' if they are designed to address the questions of interest to the primary users of the evaluation in a way that they find credible and timely. Putting together a 'user profile' of those primary users is first step in making that happen....
Learning is an outcome in social innovation. In order to make progress on a tough issue, social innovation must interact with it, try things out., perhaps fail, and try again. And in the process, they learn more about the nature of the challenge they are trying to address, the systems...
Getting a handle on the difference between simple, complicated and complex problems, and being clear on how each require a different style of leadership and management, is one of the first tasks for social innovators. The agreement-certainty matrix is one of several tools that can help....
Developing and testing promising ideas through prototyping is becoming a 'mainstream' practice of social innovators. Ironically, there are few resources out there to help them evaluate their efforts. This resource helps fill the gap....
Good evaluation guides are hard to come by. This one focused on how to assess advocacy and policy change efforts is one of the best....
It's notoriously tricky to capture the unintended outcomes of efforts to tackle tough challenges. Outcome Harvesting can help....