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Our takeaway: What we’ve learnt running a healthier local food business

In late 2019, with support from Impact on Urban Health (then Guy’s and St Thomas’ Charity), we launched Medleys, an …

By Alice | March 4, 2021 Posted in Community, Design Thinking, Food
Research

Empowering students and clinicians with mental health data

In-depth user research exploring the experiences and perspectives of college students and clinicians around opportunities for mental health innovation.

By Guest Writer | December 15, 2020

Human-centred moonshots: Putting people at the heart of mental health tech

Today we launch our report Empowering students and clinicians with data, the culmination of a two-year partnership between Shift and …

By Guest Writer | December 15, 2020 Posted in Design Thinking, Digital, Data and Tech, Mental Health

Covid-19 and financial vulnerability: What did we learn from contextual research?

In this blog, researcher Leonie shares what we learnt from conducting contextual research on the impact of Covid-19 on Fair …

By Leonie | December 14, 2020 Posted in Design Thinking, Digital, Data and Tech, Financial Wellbeing, Mental Health
Project

Empowering students and clinicians with mental health data

The opportunity Student mental health is in crisis on both sides of the Atlantic. Colleges and universities across the UK …

Connected from the start: Collective support for parents in the pandemic

This year I had the privilege of collaborating with around 25 organisations on a project called Connected from the Start. …

By Guest Writer | December 7, 2020 Posted in Childhoods, Collective Impact, Design Thinking
Project

A Design Lab for foundations and philanthropy

The opportunity Philanthropy and grantmaking is under increased scrutiny, at a time when the role of foundations and their resources …

Open enquiry: How can we multiply the collective impact of funding for youth mental health?

Shift’s Nick Stanhope shares the new open enquiry for youth mental health funders from Foundation Design Lab

By Nick | November 26, 2020

Conditions for Collaboration — Part 2: the role of shared infrastructure

Intentions for collaboration are only as good as the shared infrastructure they need to thrive.

By Nick | October 6, 2020

Exploring radically better organisational development

Introducing a new project to inspire and support radically better organisational development in the UK nonprofit sector.

By Guest Writer | September 28, 2020

Housing associations: act now to build trust with your tenants before the longer-term impacts of Covid-19 take hold

This is the second blog in our mini-series that explores the role that trust and relationship-building across the entire tenant …

By Duncan F | September 22, 2020 Posted in Collective Impact, Design Thinking, Digital, Data and Tech, Financial Wellbeing

Urgent: Housing associations must act now to design, deliver, and adapt support for their tenants before the longer term impacts of Covid-19 begin to take hold

This blog is an introduction to a mini-series on what housing associations can do in the short-term to help mitigate …

By Duncan F | August 24, 2020 Posted in Design Thinking, Financial Wellbeing, Uncategorized

Stories about the lived experience of Universal Credit

The challenge Universal Credit puts people at high risk of spiralling into debt and falling into rent arrears. For our …

By Louise | August 24, 2020 Posted in Design Thinking, Financial Wellbeing, Uncategorized

US Team Launches Shift Collective

Today marks the launch of Shift Collective: a spin off from Shift focusing on social justice in cultural memory, based …

By Jon | August 16, 2020 Posted in Design Thinking

What if the way we think about fixing misinformation is wrong?

Imran Khan, Head of Public Engagement at Wellcome, asks how we should look at the conditions that create misinformation online.

By Guest Writer | August 14, 2020

Conditions for Collaboration — Part 1: When it’s really hard

Collaboration, even amongst well-intended organisations that share the same values and purpose, can feel way too hard.

By Nick | August 10, 2020

How can we make social media a healthier platform for health information?

Carla Ross, Research and Evidence Lead at our partner Wellcome, calls for the health and research sector to step up and play its role in creating a healthier internet.

By Guest Writer | July 29, 2020
Research

A healthier internet for health information

Mapping the landscape of actors and initiatives improving health information on social media.

By Chloe | July 28, 2020
Research

The Moment We Noticed: The Relationships Observatory & Learning from 100 Days of Lockdown

Bringing together learning from 50+ contributors after 100 days of lockdown, this report explores how we can build back better …

By David | July 7, 2020

Getting out of debt: Solving the equity equation for social innovation

Kicking off a series with Pioneers Post, Shift’s Commercial Director shares our own experience accessing social investment.

By Duncan B | July 1, 2020
Project

Using data and insights to improve early years services

The challenge West London Zone does important, impactful work improving the lives of children and young people in West London, …

Beyond Demand: the social sector’s real need for patient capital

We’re publishing brand new social investment research that reveals a significant funding gap in the social sector. Here, Commercial Lead …

By Duncan F | June 1, 2020 Posted in Collective Impact, Design Thinking, Funding and Investment
Research

Beyond Demand: the social sector’s need for patient, risk-bearing capital

Research conducted by Shift in partnership with CAF Venturesome, Unltd and principal funder Esmee Fairbairn Foundation.

By Duncan F | May 29, 2020
Project

Better support for parents, even during the pandemic

The opportunity For each week COVID-19 continues to disrupt, over 12,000 children will be born. Six months of social distancing …

Testing a Universal Credit survival pack for Housing Association tenants

The problem While Universal Credit claims in 2020 had already increased by 5% since the previous year before COVID-19, the …

By Louise | May 12, 2020 Posted in Collective Impact, Design Thinking, Financial Wellbeing

Redesigning Libraries, Archives and Museums Post-COVID-19

Shift’s US family offer five ways we can rebuild the cultural sector beyond COVID-19 in ways that better reflect the values of an equitable society.

By Jon | May 12, 2020

Final year design students set brief for brand strategy for our food venture

BA (Hons) Graphic Branding and Identity students at London College of Communications pitched ideas for our Better Everyday Takeaway venture.

By Guest Writer | May 6, 2020
Project

Specialist support for National Lottery Community Fund grantees

The Challenge When charities and social enterprises embark on major change and innovation, they’re faced with so many challenges and …

Project

Inspiring radically better organisational development for non-profits

The Challenge Strong, vibrant communities are supported by resilient, confident organisations, able to develop and adapt. However, a previous discovery …

Catalyst COVID-19 strategy: building a scalable system for a sector-wide digital response

How, as part of Catalyst, we’re responding to the COVID-19 crisis.

By Nick | April 4, 2020

Introducing the Relationships Observatory

Inviting you to observe, capture and share amazing examples of responses to COVID-19 that have relationships at their heart – all to help us learn for the future.

By David | April 1, 2020
Project

Powering nonprofits to respond to the crisis

The challenge Many nonprofits spent the first months of the Covid-19 pandemic working hard under immense pressure to implement quick …

Catalyst Digital Teams available to help charities respond to COVID-19

Are you a network of charities in need of digital support? Catalyst Digital Teams offer expertise to help you respond and adapt.

By Nick | March 26, 2020
Research

Encouraging Affordable Borrowing

In this report, published with Fair Finance, we share our RCT findings on anchoring loan amounts.

By Immy | March 20, 2020

Coronavirus and social disruption

A view from the Relationships Project on how our lives and relationships are changing as a result of coronavirus.

By David | March 14, 2020
Research

The Relationship-Centred City: Building a better London by building better relationships

A report from the Relationships Project unearths learning for cities the world over.

By Sam | March 13, 2020

How can we make more collective progress when funding single organisations?

By Nick | March 4, 2020
Research

Case studies: relationship-centred practice

A collection of inspiring examples of relationship-centred practice from across the UK.

By Immy | February 2, 2020

Introducing Catalyst Clusters and some big collective ambitions

The Catalyst is a big opportunity to build digital capabilities as networks, fields and ecosystems, not just as individual organisations. Blog by Shift’s CEO Nick Stanhope.

By Nick | January 10, 2020

The 12 joys of Shiftmas

As we reach the end of the year, what better time to look back, reflect, learn and celebrate? Here are …

By Rachel | December 17, 2019 Posted in Collective Impact, Design Thinking

Introducing the Digital Fund — and a different way of funding digital

By Guest Writer | December 13, 2019

Imagining a relationship-centred London

In brief In this blog, David shares his reflections on an thoughtful, energetic event in which 25 Londoners reimagined the …

By David | December 12, 2019 Posted in Collective Impact, Community, Design Thinking, Relationships

Blueprints, Clues and Cues for relational practice

In brief In this blog, Immy outlines the Relationship Project’s upcoming plans to develop practical tools that support the design …

By Immy | December 12, 2019 Posted in Collective Impact, Community, Design Thinking, Relationships

Joining the dots: The case for relational resettlement

In this piece for Joining the Dots Sam Boyd – Head of Policy, Impact and Communications at Switchback – describes the transformational …

By Guest Writer | December 12, 2019 Posted in Collective Impact, Community, Design Thinking, Joining the Dots, Relationships
Research

Massive Digital Community Archives in Colombia: An International Partnership Towards Peace

This chapter in The Routledge International Handbook of New Digital Practices in Galleries, Libraries, Archives, Museums and Heritage Sites explores …

By Jon | November 18, 2019
Project

Improving social housing services that support women with their finances

The Challenge Financial shocks, unmanageable debt and income vulnerability disproportionately affect women. Southern Housing Group have found that through services, …

Joining the Dots: Relationship-Centred Public Services

In this piece for Joining the Dots Ray Shostak considers the “enabling conditions” for developing relational practice and suggests a framework for …

By Guest Writer | October 14, 2019 Posted in Collective Impact, Community, Design Thinking, Joining the Dots, Relationships

Joining the dots: Wallpaper and relationships

In this contribution to Joining the Dots, The Relationships Project Founder David Robinson reflects on the importance of visual clues …

By David | September 30, 2019 Posted in Collective Impact, Community, Design Thinking, Joining the Dots, Relationships

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