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How is the cost-of-living crisis is affecting place-based systems change, and how to maintain a long-term systemic view during an ongoing crisis?

New research sets the foundations for deeper understanding of self-employment for young people from marginalised backgrounds. The team at Youth Futures Foundation and The Social Innovation Partnership explore what we can learn from our newly published report, ‘Choosing your freedom’.Throughout…

Thanks to funding from The Good Things Foundation Renaisi can now offer free mobile data, text and calls to people experiencing data poverty. The National Databank from 02 and The Good Things Foundation provides free mobile data, texts and calls to people in need. Think of it like a ‘food bank’ but for internet connectivity

Renaisi launches a collaborative 12-month enquiry into what it takes to change a system. Beth Stout Associate Director of Place & Systemic Change invites you to work with us on understanding and moving towards systemic change for your issue, organisation, or partnership. “Renaisi has been building understanding of systems change for many years. Drawing on

Head of People & Learning, Marie Nichols describes how we’ll make sure the aims of our strategy are applied within Renaisi.

Renaisi’s strategic direction is rooted in our history, experience and values. It reflects the reality of today’s social and economic climate, and brings together everything we learned from our last strategy. Locking people out of society leads to poverty, poor health and wellbeing – and the cost is economic, as well as social. Yet despite incredible effort

Join us for our monthly information sessions in which you will receive important information to support your integration into UK culture and to support you on your journey into employment. This is a 3-part series, with workshops on the following topics: The sessions are via zoom. They are interactive, and you will have the opportunity

How do we make systems change language helpful and inclusive rather than academic and inaccessible? We are testing Plain English ways of describing systems change.

A blog on the importance of having a shared language and definition for social connectedness, and a definition we developed for Spirit of 2012’s social connectedness projects.

Civil Society Support Organisations (CSSOs) look to provide infrastructure support to enable frontline services to do their work. However, in recent years, this has become more challenging –  the underfunded sector has overstretched resources against growing demand. The grant-giving and charitable…