COMMUNITY WORKS is a creative company working for evidence-based social development
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Build plans for the future based on assets, gaps, opportunities and priorities.
Design, Implement and Scale Initiatives
Build best practice based on evidence.
EVALUATE AND LEARN
Build expertise by engaging communities to generate better projects and services.
Manage Conflict
Build skills and structures to engage with conflict effectively and productively.
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Build communities of practice by sharing experience visually, creatively and powerfully.
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Applying place-based approaches to strengthen social and community support systems
As strategic partners of Spring Impact, we have been pleased to coordinate an international study of place-based approaches to early childhood development this year with support from the Conrad N. Hilton Foundation. The term ‘place-based’ was new to us, but it soon...
Young Dark Emu: A new resource for conflict transformation in Australia
Over the school holidays, I had the pleasure of attending the launch of Bruce Pascoe’s new book, Young Dark Emu, along with my eight-year-old daughter. Young Dark Emu looks at the highly advanced land cultivation methods developed by Aboriginal people in this country...
Visual methods for working with community groups
This article responds to requests we have received for more information on visual methods that enable productive conversations with community groups. These conversations may be around problems they are seeking to tackle, the planning of a project, the airing of views on a particular subject or other situations in which someone is facilitating a session with a group of local people.
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Annum Shaikh
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Martin De Los Rios
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