Models of Value that Community Organising Generates for its Adopters.pdf - page 1/33 - Research Report on Case Studies of Commu…
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Models of Value that Community Organising Generates for its Adopters.pdf - page 2/33 - Contents 1 Executive Summary ...........…
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Models of Value that Community Organising Generates for its Adopters.pdf - page 3/33 - 1 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
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Models of Value that Community Organising Generates for its Adopters.pdf - page 4/33 - the catalyst effect adopters highlight …
![the catalyst effect adopters highlight is the change to collaborative relationships between adopters and other third and public sector organisations; and](pages/page-0004-small.png)
Models of Value that Community Organising Generates for its Adopters.pdf - page 5/33 - management and operational levels. While…
![management and operational levels. While other practice models common in the third sector could make similar claims, the distinctive contribution organising makes (with respect to collaboration across sectors) lies in the insistence that organising maintains its challenge to the structural inequalities that underpin the power dynamic. It is this inequality in power that ultimately governs the ways the public agency manages the issues. The narratives of those research participants who work inside the public sector relates how it is this challenge that is at the core of the value of organising for them. The learning network proposal seeks to find the route for organising into more upstream parts of the policy process and to extend its practice influencing into additional domains, including those concerned with place-based regeneration. The ways in which organising influences practice models that some public sector organisations adopt is clearest in health and wellbeing. The research explored in some detail the prospects for organising obtaining financial resources through the trading activities of the hubs. The research did identify some instances where hubs were in a position to develop community business approaches to the financing of organising. However, these were at an early stage of development. It is unlikely that such income streams will replace the revenue that enabled the field to advance during the last decade. It is important that CO Ltd, the hubs and others active in the organising field work together with public and philanthropic funding agencies to formulate a sustainable revenue model for organising.](pages/page-0005-small.png)
Models of Value that Community Organising Generates for its Adopters.pdf - page 6/33 - 2 BACKGROUND & METHODS
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Models of Value that Community Organising Generates for its Adopters.pdf - page 7/33 - drawing actors in these sectors into rel…
![drawing actors in these sectors into relationships with adopters that facilitate influencing, learning, resource sharing, etc. Stachowiak et al (2020) note that field strengthening, network development and practice uptake interventions may serve to advance social change alongside social movement approaches. Following recent work from the Bridgespan Group (2020), they propose that a mature field in the philanthropic social change sector will have five features:](pages/page-0007-small.png)
Models of Value that Community Organising Generates for its Adopters.pdf - page 8/33 - Trefnu Cymunedol Cymru / Together Creati…
![Trefnu Cymunedol Cymru / Together Creating Communities (TCC), which because it is in Wales, is outside the geographical boundaries of the funding that resources CO Ltds hubs work. The seven included here carry out significant community anchoring functions (two identify as anchors, most of the others include anchoring activities in their work programmes). All seven exemplify at least some of PtCs four `key features of a community business (locally rooted, trading to benefit local community, accountable to it and impactful in it).](pages/page-0008-small.png)
Models of Value that Community Organising Generates for its Adopters.pdf - page 9/33 - how organising fits with other ways of …
![how organising fits with other ways of working the adopter applies; the contribution organising makes to delivering the adopters mission; the nature of the benefits organising delivers for the adopter; the changes organising has aided the adopter bring about, internally and externally; the financial and other costs associated with organising for the adopter; the sources of revenue that the adopter accesses to cover these costs; and the potential for adopters to generate income (other than grant-aid) to cover these](pages/page-0009-small.png)
Models of Value that Community Organising Generates for its Adopters.pdf - page 10/33 - Template of the Model of Value that Orga…
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Models of Value that Community Organising Generates for its Adopters.pdf - page 11/33 - The 2017 survey used a different questio…
![The 2017 survey used a different questionnaire design. This treated organising as one of the possible aids to marketing and communications. The data suggests that around 70% (250) of that community businesses cohort viewed access to support on organising as positive. The 2015 report suggests that organising support appealed to most sectors of the community business market but was infrequently accessed. The data is fragmentary but it suggests there may be some scope for organising to offer additional support to the market, in relation to the engagement of local people with the businesses in ways that enhance the businesses accountability to their local community. For the financial accounts data, the research reviewed material in annual reports that hub leads made available or could be sourced from regulatory bodies sites. The focus here was on the hubs finances. Of particular interest, was the current or future prospects for any surplus being available for organising activities other than grant-aid. The review of the material suggests the prospects for surplus being available for organising are modest.](pages/page-0011-small.png)
Models of Value that Community Organising Generates for its Adopters.pdf - page 12/33 - 3 FINDINGS
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Models of Value that Community Organising Generates for its Adopters.pdf - page 13/33 - commissions, to maintain collaborative w…
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Models of Value that Community Organising Generates for its Adopters.pdf - page 14/33 - 3.2 Acorn
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Models of Value that Community Organising Generates for its Adopters.pdf - page 15/33 - 3.3 Centre4
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Models of Value that Community Organising Generates for its Adopters.pdf - page 16/33 - 3.4 Grapevine
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Models of Value that Community Organising Generates for its Adopters.pdf - page 17/33 - 3.5 Heart of Hastings
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Models of Value that Community Organising Generates for its Adopters.pdf - page 18/33 - 3.6 High Trees
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Models of Value that Community Organising Generates for its Adopters.pdf - page 19/33 - 3.7 Starting Point
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Models of Value that Community Organising Generates for its Adopters.pdf - page 20/33 - 3.8 Trefnu Cymunedol Cymru / Together Cr…
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Models of Value that Community Organising Generates for its Adopters.pdf - page 21/33 - 3.9 Summary of the Models of Value
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Models of Value that Community Organising Generates for its Adopters.pdf - page 22/33 - company, with its organisers performing …
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Models of Value that Community Organising Generates for its Adopters.pdf - page 23/33 - 4 DISCUSSION
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Models of Value that Community Organising Generates for its Adopters.pdf - page 24/33 - infrastructure that supports these, curr…
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Models of Value that Community Organising Generates for its Adopters.pdf - page 25/33 - While a majority of the adopters have s…
![While a majority of the adopters have some community business features, for these the early trading activity delivers less income than philanthropic grant-aid and the nature of the trading appears to have some of the features of a grant-aid transaction.](pages/page-0025-small.png)
Models of Value that Community Organising Generates for its Adopters.pdf - page 26/33 - research do not suggest much by way of t…
![research do not suggest much by way of the surplus that would, for example, cover the cost of one full-time organiser. The prospects for adopters absorbing the costs of organising and / or transferring surpluses form other income streams to resource this work seem modest.](pages/page-0026-small.png)
Models of Value that Community Organising Generates for its Adopters.pdf - page 27/33 - deepening the understanding of the inco…
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Models of Value that Community Organising Generates for its Adopters.pdf - page 28/33 - 5 CONCLUSIONS
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Models of Value that Community Organising Generates for its Adopters.pdf - page 29/33 - participants refer to organising facilit…
![participants refer to organising facilitating work between hubs and third and public sector organisations. The adaptability of organising brings much opportunity for the hubs work in different domains. The application of organising to influencing work more often links to practice issues more often than up-stream policy.](pages/page-0029-small.png)
Models of Value that Community Organising Generates for its Adopters.pdf - page 30/33 - power while collaborating with their par…
![power while collaborating with their partners on the co-design of services and the diffusion of the associated practice lessons across partners management levels, and 7) ensuring the learning on the distinctive contribution is documented and disseminated through the knowledge management and evidence base elements noted in the Discussion section; and Protecting the social capital that the hubs have accumulated to date through creating the opportunities that will 8) help maintain the bonds of solidarity formed through the collective action work in their own communities of the existing cadre of organisers, through for example, affirming / celebrating the work of alumni of the CO Ltds Academy, 9) maintain the relational bridges across sectoral boundaries and links from hubs into statutory management to protect these connections against decay, through hubs championing joint working with PSOs in those third sector forums in which it operates and 10) putting in place an information resource for hubs that would guide their preparation of policy insights into PSOs with which they have worked, where possible promoting joint authorship of the reportage. In conclusion, I note the markedly high value that all sources across sectors placed on the authenticity of the voice organising enables adopters to articulate as they pursue social justice. It is important that adopters secure the resources to continue this work.](pages/page-0030-small.png)
Models of Value that Community Organising Generates for its Adopters.pdf - page 31/33 - RESEARCH PARTICIPANTS
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Models of Value that Community Organising Generates for its Adopters.pdf - page 32/33 - INTERVIEW TOPICS GUIDE
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Models of Value that Community Organising Generates for its Adopters.pdf - page 33/33 - REFERENCES
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