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States of Change public innovation learning programme launches in Australia and Canada

Our 9-12 month programme focuses on building innovation capacity by working on real projects and creating culture change.

Tuesday, 10 April 2018

Brenton Caffin, Jesper Christiansen, Isobel Roberts

Identifying tomorrow's skills needs

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Does the current workforce have the right skills, knowledge and abilities to meet the job requirements of the future?

Hasan Bakhshi Antonio Lima

12.04.18

Business investment and cake sales: Rocket Fund donor analysis

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At the end of March, Ripple made headlines when it donated an astonishing $29 million to fund all 35,000 projects on Donors Choose, a...

Emma Sutherland Ben Gill

10.04.18

How (not) to embrace complexity

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The April edition of Lab Notes brings together inspiring news, publications and other resources for public sector and social innovators...

Theo Bass Matt Stokes

21.03.18

Tackling Beveridge's 'Five Giants' together

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We look at Nesta’s work on people-powered public services through the lens of Beveridge’s Five Giants

Juliet Ollard Antony Declercq

16.03.18

How people-powered public services can help bring us closer together

Parents' and children's hands together (Pixabay)

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A model of public services that actively seeks out the expertise, experience, and energy of local people to improve the lives of those...

Will Bibby Sally Gimson

7.03.18

Rocket Fund impact report 2018

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We recently completed wave 4, bringing our total number of projects to 160, raising £140k for schools in a year. To celebrate, we're...

Ben Gill Rachel Chatterjee

2.03.18

Introducing the UK-based CEP workshop associates

Face on Creative Enterprise Programme worksheet

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The Creative Enterprise Programme network expands with the recruitment of 10 UK-based workshop associates.

Kimberley Ballantyne Georgina Innes

22.02.18

10 apps making the world a better place

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Apps can help to save lives, educate children and reinvigorate politics. We have collected 10 examples of apps that are both useful and...

Valerie Mocker Felix Szabo

19.02.18

Vexing progress towards surgical equity

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Tom Weiser discusses why safe, affordable surgical care and capacity is essential to a functioning health system

Tom Weiser

13.02.18

Four steps to define digital skills

A visualisation of ESCO's digital competencies made using Gephi

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What are 'digital skills'? Readie offers four steps to a practical definition, and presents multiple useful frameworks...

Jack Orlik

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Identifying tomorrow's skills needs

Business investment and cake sales: Rocket Fund donor analysis

How (not) to embrace complexity

Tackling Beveridge's 'Five Giants' together

How people-powered public services can help bring us closer together

Rocket Fund impact report 2018

Introducing the UK-based CEP workshop associates

10 apps making the world a better place

Vexing progress towards surgical equity

Four steps to define digital skills

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