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How to Build a Social Innovation Framework: Lessons From Our Intern

A Social Innovation Framework is simply a step-by-step guide that gives you the questions you need to move a new idea forward, especially when you’re trying to address a social challenge.
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Paying People Fairly: Building Trust and Equity

The Haunted Handbook: Demystifying Governance & Risk Management

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How Grassroots Groups Are Countering Far Right Movements

The rise of far right movements is being met by powerful community resistance. Explore our list of organisations fighting hate and building solidarity from the ground up.

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How to Build a Social Innovation Framework: Lessons From Our Intern

A Social Innovation Framework is simply a step-by-step guide that gives you the questions you need to move a new idea forward, especially when you’re trying to address a social challenge.
The SCN team, stood in a park in London, all smiling after a team picnic

The Haunted Handbook: Demystifying Governance & Risk Management

A halloween scene of a graveyard with zombies and ghosts is pictured in SCN brand colours

Overcoming Barriers, Sparking Change: What have Microgrants helped to achieve?

This blog shares the outcomes of some of our UMI Fund grantees projects, the challenges that they faced, whether they would apply again and advice for future applicants.
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How Microgrants are Powering Grassroots Climate Solutions and Fuelling Young Activists to Make Change

At The Social Change Nest, we’ve always believed that change doesn’t trickle down, it surges upward. And often, what sparks that surge is modest funding in the hands of the right people. Microgrants may be small in size, but when placed directly into the hands of community-rooted organisers, they become
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Inside Our International Grant Distribution Work: Supporting Activists Across Borders

Our international grant distribution service is a partnership in which we transfer money from a granting organisation to recipients in other countries. The main purpose of this work is to enable international cooperation and support development efforts globally in areas such as education, healthcare, infrastructure, climate justice and environmental protection.
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An Interview with Aimee – Our Head of Community and Impact

We were SO lucky when Aimee joined us to cover the role of Head of Programmes, so lucky we just couldn't let her leave!
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