The Knowledge Development & Exchange (KDE) Hub for Mental Health Promotion and Here to There Consulting Inc. 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 them out at the KDE Hub:...
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....
This resource provides indepth guidance on how to evaluate social innovation prototypes. It is sponsored by Social Innovation Canada, funded by the Canadian Federal Government, and developed with the input of score of Canadian social innovators....
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....
In order to make progress on a tough issue, social innovation must interact with it, try things out, perhaps fail, and try again. This resources provides some guidance on systematically explore how to spot, develop and use 'lessons learned' based on some of several different methods and techniques. ....
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. This framework offers a scrappy way to evaluate them....
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....