COMMUNITY WORKS is a creative company working for evidence-based social development
Develop Strategies
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.
TRAINING
Workshops tailored to professional development needs of specific organisations and individuals.
Manage Conflict
Build skills and structures to engage with conflict effectively and productively.
Communicate
Build communities of practice by sharing experience visually, creatively and powerfully.
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What We Do
Principles and Practice of Social Enterprise
Management coaching and strategic advice
Training for impact in disaster-affected communities
Support to effective policy and practice in social services
Latest Blog Posts
Community therapy? Parallels and distinctions between counselling and capacity building
“The parallels and distinctions between counselling and capacity building have helped me reflect on how to centre capacity-building processes around the strengths, knowledge, and experience possessed by people creating change in their communities” – Maria Rodrigues...
The problem of changing theories of change
The theory of change method of planning has rapidly grown in significance for organisations working in social and economic development. Wherever I work these days, someone is developing a theory of change and I often get involved in the process. It’s good because the...
The forest and the trees in facilitation
The term facilitation refers to methods and processes that enable people to collaborate on a given subject, especially where there might be complexity, different perspectives on a topic or even disputes and conflict. I was recently invited to prepare a detailed tender...
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+61 (0) 3 9005 7341
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313/757 Bourke Street
Docklands
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(+57) 313-8933939