We know that public policy students aspire to have impactful careers. But policy development can be pretty complex and there are a host of overly theoretical frameworks out there that just add to the complexity. For this reason, we’ve developed… Read more
Type: Reports and toolkits
Public Impact Fundamentals starter kit
We’ve developed a range of tools to help you use the Public Impact Fundamentals framework in your day-to-day work to improve the impact of policies Download the tools Explore the… Read more
Storytelling for Systems Change: Listening to Understand
“Stories, in their many shapes and forms, are a part of human nature and humans are immersed in them: they are experienced as deeply individual and as integral to relationships between people; they provide explanations, meaning, and entertainment; people die… Read more
How to fail (forward) framework
In government, learning from failure is the critical link between innovation and impact. Download the report The Centre for Public Impact and the Aspen Institute Center for Urban Innovation worked together to understand how… Read more
The Opportunity Project for Cities sprint toolkit: A guide for community-driven innovation sprints in local governments
About the sprint toolkit This toolkit was compiled to support the Opportunity Project for Cities (TOPC) program, a 22-week innovation sprint through which local governments work with community and tech partners to develop open-source tools that leverage data to address… Read more
Human Learning Systems – A practical guide to doing public management differently
Last year, we worked with several organisations to release an e-book – Human Learning Systems: Public Service for the Real World. This had one key message: if we want to achieve real outcomes in the world, then we… Read more
Engaging the Public on Climate Change: What We’ve Learned
This article is part of a series. Read the funding perspective on Public Engagement on Climate Change from the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation here. In 2015, the Paris Agreement raised global ambition with a target to limit warming since… Read more
Busting Bureaucracy in health and social care: understanding and leading cultural change to solve a complex problem
It is hardly breaking news to note that many feel the level of bureaucracy in the English health and social care system is too high. We know that bureaucracy grows in large, hierarchical organisations, and the health and care system… Read more