Changemakers may have an easier time getting on the same page about what they are trying to accomplish if they have some common language about the different degrees, orders, or levels of change they seek. For more on the series, see: https://www.tamarackcommunity.ca/guides/the-transformation-frameworks-series#guides...
This paper explores a half-dozen archetypical portfolios change-makers might use to address complex challenges - and their unique purposes, theories of change, as well as management, communication and evaluation practices....
This first paper in the 'Transformation Series' prepared by Tamarack and Here to There Consulting offers one way (and there are many) to understand what so many people are hoping to achieve: transforming systems and societies for the better. ...
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....
The are three significnat reasons to avoid community driven, local efforts to tackle stubborn societal issues. But the seven reasons to embrace the approach are far more powerful. This resource explains why....
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....
The process of improving the relevance, quality or efficiency existing model, program or strategy is a form of incremental innovation that all change-makers should be capable of integrating into their work if and when their aim is truly 'incremental' innovation. This short piece summarizes the basic ideas of 'continuous improvement'...
Social Innovators and evaluators have been using Developmental Evaluation since it was introduced in 2006 by Michael Quinn Patton. The Developmental Evaluation Companion – prepared with the support of the J.W. McConnel Family Foundation – provides a high level update on the approach based on the experiences of a score...