Tools & Resources

Welcome to the Platform C Resource Hub!

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.

If you find something that you want to share, that fits into a specific Phase or Layer of the Collaborative Chance Cycle, please send a link to us here

This resource is a field guide to the use of participatory and other research tools by Aboriginal research practitioners in Australia.

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1. Readiness Runway

This resource is a video of Rich Harwood describing the Harwood Institute’s concept of Turning Outward, or making the community the reference point for everything you do.

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1. Readiness Runway

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1. Readiness Runway

This tool will help you to identify how ready your system (group, community or organisation) is for collaboration and adaptation. It can also be modified to help you assess readiness for tackling complex challenges.

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1. Readiness Runway

2. Building the Foundations

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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2. Building the Foundations

3. Creating a Shared Vision

This resource provides an introduction to social innovation processes that will help you rapidly test your assumptions in a cost-effective way.

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1. Readiness Runway

This resource from Australians Together outlines clearly why and how Intergenerational Trauma needs to be understood in the context of working with First Nations Australians.

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John Kania shares insights into why Collective Impact and Systems Change efforts are most powerful when they are conducted at a place-based level. This is an excerpt of a video interview in 2020 with John Kania by CFI Director, Kerry Graham.

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1. Readiness Runway

John Kania introduces the six conditions of systems change framework. An excerpt of a video interview in 2020 with John Kania by CFI Director, Kerry Graham.

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1. Readiness Runway

John Kania talks about 'System Leadership' as the leadership required for systems change and identifies leadership as the biggest distinguishing factor of successful Collective Impact efforts. This is an excerpt of a video interview in 2020 with John Kania by CFI Director, Kerry…

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1. Readiness Runway

This resource describes the difference between leaders who need to be the centre of attention and leaders who create the conditions for collaborative outcomes.

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1. Readiness Runway

This resource describes different approaches to leadership and identifies those best suited to collaborative community impact and systems change.

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1. Readiness Runway

This resource is a compilation of tools and techniques for working in groups and facilitating meetings and workshops.

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1. Readiness Runway

This resource situates collective impact in relation to similar approaches, notes similarities and differences, and makes recommendations for enhancing collaborative community practice.

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1. Readiness Runway

This resource uses a basic matrix to distinguish between simple, complicated, political, complex, and chaotic issues and challenges, and the types of intervention most appropriate to each.

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1. Readiness Runway

This resource describes the core capabilities of system leaders and describes the means by which they may be acquired.

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1. Readiness Runway

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