It shouldn’t have been a challenging task. This is a fundamental, bread and butter issue for the sector. Every organisation’s core mission is to have an impact. And yet it felt in a small way as if our review was breaking new ground. Predictably, a quick internet search threw up masses of material on growth.
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In recent years, measuring and demonstrating impact has risen up the agendas of organisations that aim to do social good. Alongside this, interest in growing the evidence base for effective practice has spread. Scientific evaluative approaches and research techniques are increasingly being applied in not-for-profit service settings. Competition for scarce funding has been a key
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Mental health is gendered. For a range of reasons, different mental health conditions are more prevalent among men and women. This means that employment service providers and others wanting to support service users’ mental health effectively need to be able to recognise and respond appropriately to the causes of mental ill-health for cisgendered and trans* men
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Not Westminster is a network of people working in local government, community activists, thinkers and doers with a mutual interest in creating and sharing ideas for stronger local democracy. Earlier this month, Renaisi took part in the annual gathering in Huddersfield. We ran a workshop to explore what makes a good local conversation in a
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