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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 website contains links to a diverse range of videos, written descriptions, templates, and tools for understanding and delivering Asset Based Community Development (ABCD).

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2. Building the Foundations

This resource briefly describes the four key steps in Appreciative Inquiry: discover; dream; design; and deliver.

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2. Building the Foundations

This resource provides an overview of the backbone role in collective impact, including: purpose and function; structure, staffing, and budget; selecting a backbone; leadership; and the backbone’s focus on equity.

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2. Building the Foundations

This resource provides a four-step process for articulating and tracking progress through the early stages of a collaborative project, by looking back and looking forward.

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2. Building the Foundations

This resource provides a governance framework for those seeking to work collaboratively on a complex social or community challenge.

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Shared principles around trust need to be explicit in this work. This video explores strategies for how you might create some shared principles together. Deep Collaboration is a way of working that was created by First Nations and other Multicultural Australians to find new ways to work and…

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2. Building the Foundations

This video explores how understanding the idea and impact of ‘roles’, and separating yourself from a ‘role’ you are in a group, supports resilience and sustainability in collaborations. Deep Collaboration is a way of working that was created by First Nations and other Multicultural Australians…

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2. Building the Foundations

Step 1 of Deep Collaboration outlines a process of how to explore if readiness to work differently is really there – being realistic about investments of time, energy, level of drive, urgency and courage. Deep Collaboration is a way of working that was created by First Nations and other…

Deep Collaboration

2. Building the Foundations

Working in the dynamics of cross-cultural partnerships can be challenging, and this video speaks about ways you can foster resilience in the work of Deep Collaboration. Deep Collaboration is a way of working that was created by First Nations and other Multicultural Australians to find new ways…

Deep Collaboration

2. Building the Foundations

Just ‘good enough’ common ground in shared purpose is all we need in this work and this video discusses what that might look like. Deep Collaboration is a way of working that was created by First Nations and other Multicultural Australians to find new ways to work and lead together.

Deep Collaboration

2. Building the Foundations

This video explores how conflict – often seen as the enemy – can be an asset to partnerships when understood and harnessed. Deep Collaboration is a way of working that was created by First Nations and other Multicultural Australians to find new ways to work and lead together.

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2. Building the Foundations

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…

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2. Building the Foundations

This resource will walk you through the philosophy of an Appreciative Inquiry, and how to facilitate one or more phases of the exercise.

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2. Building the Foundations

This resource is a comprehensive toolkit for planning, delivering and analysing Harwood Community Conversations.

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2. Building the Foundations

This resource describes seven elements of cross sector partnership formation.

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2. Building the Foundations

This resource provides a process for developing questions that lead to new insights, ideas and solutions.

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2. Building the Foundations

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