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This library of helpful tools and resources was curated from thought leaders and change-makers around the world. We are working continuously to add helpful information.

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This video discusses why the often counter-intuitive approach of actively seeking out difference is helpful in the context of cross-cultural partnering. Deep Collaboration is a way of working that was created by First Nations and other Multicultural Australians to find new ways to work and…

Deep Collaboration

2. Building the Foundations

Developmental Evaluation (DE) can be used to evaluate innovative initiatives in complex, dynamic environments, including a range of fields and international settings. Here is a webinar from the Tamarack Institute featuring M.Q. Patton and Mark Cabaj discussing Developmental Evaluation.

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3. Creating a Shared Vision

For a really useful explanation on the difference between shared measurement and evaluation, read the following blog. 

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3. Creating a Shared Vision

This resource provides a framework for considering ethics, privacy and safety when engaging community members in design, research and evaluation activities.

Clear Horizon

3. Creating a Shared Vision

A good resource for evaluation is the Better Evaluation website. It offers information and links to many evaluation approaches, methods and tools. This website has been developed for program evaluation principally and you should therefore consider how you select and apply these resources to…

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5. Achieving Transformation

The August Wilson Red Door Project's ground-breaking production of Evolve is about racial profiling but from a multiplicity of perspectives. In this video, Artistic Director Kevin E. Jones explores what it meant to create the conditions for change.

Kevin E. Jones

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This resource can help you deepen your understanding of facilitation.

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A worksheet from Diamond Leadership that helps in mapping your different types of power - personal and positional. Use this worksheet to identify and cultivate your specific base of power, so you can remain effective and resilient, regardless of the challenges you face.

Diamond Leadership

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This resource provides detailed instructions for practitioners to create an actor map, which is a visual depiction of the key organizations and individuals that influence a topic or system.

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A 3-part series of downloadable handbooks that walks partners through the process of assessing progress and impact, provides case studies and examples, and sample questions, outcomes and indicators FSG guide for assessing progress and impact with example outcomes and indicators.

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This tool will help you to map and interpret stakeholder dynamics in your initiative. This tool can be useful at the start of an initiative when you are working out the ‘lay of the land’, if things go wrong, if there is conflict, or if you are not making progress.

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1. Readiness Runway

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This tool will help you to identify: • Factors that have contributed to the change you seek. • Evidence demonstrating the contribution. • The strength of the contribution. • Identify new means of and opportunities to exercise leadership.

Collaboration for Impact

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4. Scaling Up

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This resource explains how identifying and understanding ‘positive deviance’ will help you understand the kind of solutions that can work in your community – with the resources that are already in place.

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This resource helps practitioners to reflect on how ready or well positioned they are to work in an adaptive, systemic way.

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This resource describes different types of insight, the attributes of a good insight, the place of insights in design processes, and how to create stronger insights.

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