Reflections and ideas from projects across the for-good sector.
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Reconnect with purpose
Align your operations, strategy, and impact to give purpose to your mahi
Prioritise your effort
Use this simple activity to prioritise your effort where it will make the most difference.
Say no, strategically
4 tips to plan and prioritise your energy where it will make the most impact
Tell a compelling impact story
How we told the story of impact for a prevention-based social change campaign
Plan for succession
A framework and 4 questions to help you plan for succession and sustain long-term change
See your impact ecosystem
A diagram to help you see how your mahi is helping tackle ‘wicked problems’ and create positive cycles of change.
Share your research insights
5 steps to share your research creatively and influence tangible change.
Online vs IRL engagement
How to choose the best way to work with your community? Watch this short video for key questions to consider.
Closing your charity can be kind
How we decided to close the Shift Foundation (and why I’m glad we did)
Self-care in Design Research
6 hard-leant lessons to help keep yourself or your team psychologically safe in heavy work.
Indigenous Design frameworks
4 Māori approaches to design rooted in relationships, whakapapa, and cycles of change
Design x kaupapa Māori
5 lessons from working with kaupapa Māori providers over 3 years for an iwi-led initiative to improve whānau wellbeing.
Reconnecting with whakapapa
An interview with Design Assembly as part of their Design & Te ao Māori series.