by John-Paul Crofton | Dec 20, 2023 | Social Impact, Community & Social Challenges, Creativity & Innovation, Motivation, Social Change
The mysterious case of the midnight gifts It’s the night before Christmas and even the mice have gone to bed. At this special moment, Santa Claus is said to be on his global mission to bring the Christmas joy to the world. Creating the magic of social impact to...
by John-Paul Crofton | Apr 12, 2023 | Problem Solving & Decision Making, Community & Social Challenges, Leadership & Decision Making, Social Impact, Stakeholder Engagement
Scaling Social Change Leads to the Law of Misunderstanding The big problem with scaling organisation and social change is the impact of the best ideas appears to diminish as you scale up. The Law of Misunderstanding describes the scaling problem as ideas spread, and...
by John-Paul Crofton | Apr 2, 2023 | Problem Solving & Decision Making, Neighbourhood Health, Project Funding, Social Enterprise & not for profit organisations, Stakeholder Engagement, Tools For Change
What Is A Project Funding Proposal? Most people miss the point. Most people see a proposal as a way to convince people with money to get their project funded. What funders most want to know is if your organisation has the capability to deliver the social impact or...
by John-Paul Crofton | Mar 26, 2023 | Problem Solving & Decision Making, Fundamentals, Leadership & Decision Making, Neighbourhood Health, Public Services Innovation, Responsive Project Management, Social Impact, Tools For Change
This beginners guide to polarity management strategy explains what is polarity management and how you can get started using it. In typical strategy we optimise for one thing we want and often end up with unintended results. The world is full of complex issues....
by John-Paul Crofton | Mar 19, 2023 | Tools For Change, Neighbourhood Health, Project Funding
Completing a successful social project funding proposal can feel like a long winding road. There’s so much to think about, it is easy to get lost, or take a wrong turn and end up stuck in the bushes. Especially as the pressure of trying to get funding for your...
by John-Paul Crofton | Mar 12, 2023 | Problem Solving & Decision Making, Complete Guides, Fundamentals, Project Funding
Let’s be honest, creating successful proposals and grants for community project funding is tough. You may have the best project ever, that’s doing great things in your community, creating massive social impact, but getting funding can be a nightmare....
by John-Paul Crofton | Mar 11, 2023 | Problem Solving & Decision Making, Neighbourhood Health, Project Funding, Social Enterprise, Tools For Change
Getting funding for a project or pilot or community scheme is often a send and hope process. Creating a project funding proposal can be challenging, and the pressure to get it right can be overwhelming. The skills for running a project our totally different from those...
by John-Paul Crofton | Mar 5, 2023 | Problem Solving & Decision Making, Community & Social Challenges, Leadership & Decision Making, Learning, Neighbourhood Health, Social Change, Social Enterprise, Social Impact, Social Innovation, Tools For Change
Creating Social Impact Projects Challenges Creating social impact is hard. Even if you with all the expertise a charity or social enterprise has, creating a social change project that results in social impact is always a challenge. Why? Because the project management...
by John-Paul Crofton | Feb 26, 2023 | Problem Solving & Decision Making, Social Innovation, Stakeholder Engagement, Tools For Change
Why does everyone hate being marketed to? If we want to have successful campaigns that build social impact they are seen as a necessary evil. Campaigns and stakeholder engagement tend to feel repetitive and one-dimensional. We focus on people ‘buying into’...
by John-Paul Crofton | Feb 19, 2023 | Problem Solving & Decision Making, Creativity & Innovation, Fundamentals, Leadership, Neighbourhood Health, Social Change, Tools For Change
The Cynefin Framework is a powerful decision making tool for managing change strategies. Creating social impact can be a challenging task. The traditional strategic approach is to ‘create a big plan to solve a problem’. This approach to project management often falls...
by John-Paul Crofton | Feb 12, 2023 | Community & Social Challenges, Social Enterprise & not for profit organisations
Social enterprise & not-for-profit organisations have the capacity to act like stewards or gardeners of communities. Transforming barren, decaying communities into thriving, vibrant places. Cultivating and growing communities through ‘bottom-up’ social change....
by John-Paul Crofton | Feb 5, 2023 | Problem Solving & Decision Making, Community & Social Challenges, Fundamentals, Leadership & Decision Making, Neighbourhood Health, Social Change, Social Enterprise, Social Impact, Social Innovation, Tools For Change
The Adaptive Cycle helps empower with insight to how to best manage a strategy for a social impact project throughout it’s lifecycle. Delivering social impact is rarely a straight line path through an unchanging environment. The reality is that change is a part...
by John-Paul Crofton | Feb 4, 2023 | Problem Solving & Decision Making, Community & Social Challenges, Complete Guides, Fundamentals, Leadership, Social Impact, Social Innovation
Creating a social project in your community is one of the most rewarding and sometimes challenging things you can do. This guide is designed as a reference to get you started and keep you on the right track. Three Key Takeaways to Starting and Managing Social &...
by John-Paul Crofton | Jan 29, 2023 | Problem Solving & Decision Making, Fundamentals, Social Change, Social Innovation
This guide defines what is a project as well giving you a deep understanding of what is different about a social project. What it means to be different from other types of project, as well as providing examples to inspire you. What is a Social Project: Key Takeaway....
by John-Paul Crofton | Jan 22, 2023 | Problem Solving & Decision Making, Fundamentals, Leadership
What is a project? What if I told you that the way you think about projects could be limiting your social impact? The traditional approach to projects, with its linear planning and isolated nature, can often lead us down the path of project failure and frustration....
