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.

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This resource will help you gain peer input into responding to a current challenge, surfacing assumptions, identify new opportunities, and identify common patterns and themes in the work of community change.

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3. Creating a Shared Vision

This resource provides a framework, together with more than 80 methods and tools, for evaluating place-based work in the Australian context.

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5. Achieving Transformation

This resource helps collaborators to scope a Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL) plan for place-based initiatives, drawing on Clear Horizon’s standard MEL planning tools.

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3. Creating a Shared Vision

A Place-based Evaluation Framework and Toolkit, co-commissioned by the Department of Social Services and Queensland Government Department of Communities, Disability Services and for evaluating place-based delivery approaches. The toolkit has over 80 methods and tool to choose from.

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3. Creating a Shared Vision

M.Q. Patton, an American evaluator whose approaches and tools are recognised and used to evaluate place-based initiatives, has identified a useful set of principles for evaluation, which are Effectiveness Principles. More resources including a webinar  on the…

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2. Building the Foundations

Logan Together’s 2018 Progress report is an example of the type of reporting that can be achieved through the measurement and learning effort.

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4. Scaling Up

This resource is designed to help those interested or involved in a particular cross-sector collaboration better understand the complexities and nuances of the initiative.

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2. Building the Foundations

This resource explores different ways of assessing a community’s readiness for collaborative work and includes links to tools and resources for assessing and building community readiness.

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2. Building the Foundations

This resource explains how prototyping can help you bridge the evidence gap by creating context specific evidence through experimentation. 

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3. Creating a Shared Vision

This resource will help you clearly articulate your ideas, identify key benefits for specific stakeholders, and reflect on what is required to go from idea to impact.

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3. Creating a Shared Vision

This resource will help you gather feedback that does not focus only on either criticism or praise, make it easy and more comfortable for others to provide input, and visually identify similarities or differences in feedback.

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3. Creating a Shared Vision

Rubrics are a useful tool for assessing performance, these can be co-designed with the community.

Better Evaluation

4. Scaling Up

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 describes the theory and objectives of reflection workshops, and provides a step-by-step guide to conducting them, based on three stages of evaluative thinking: What happened? So what? Now what?

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4. Scaling Up

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

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