Podcast summary and Notes on "theory of change"

Plan. Pause. Reset: Real Steps to Radical Transformation with Eva Schonveld and Justin Kenrick

Eva is a climate activist, process designer and facilitator. She has co-convened the Transformative Conflict for Transition Network summit, supports sociocratic system development, decision-making and facilitation in many contexts including Extinction Rebellion Scotland.
Justin is an anthropologist and activist from Edinburgh. He is a member of Extinction Rebellion Scotland. Since 2009, has worked with the Forest Peoples Programme, supporting communities to secure their community lands and determine their own futures.

Long term friends of the podcast, Eva and Justin live and work right at the leading edge of change, exploring and testing ways to help people move into the flowing, more vulnerable, less triggered spaces that allow for genuine inner change, and therefore change in our outer relationships. The spaces this work creates are essential to the move to a future where people and planet flourish.

In this first Accidental Gods podcast of 2023, we explore the things that make our hearts sing, and the ways Eva and Justin's work is transforming communities around the world, with a particular emphasis on their homeland of Scotland, where Independence feels a breath away.

Politics, Trauma and Empathy paper https://www.globalassembly.net/news/politicstraumaempathy
Rewording https://www.globalassembly.net/reworlding-2022-programme
Rewording on Medium https://medium.com/experiental-space-research-lab/reworlding-the-art-of-living-systems-d6fef0deeb11
Previously on Accidental Gods - Episode #44 https://accidentalgods.life/re-democratising-democracy/
Previously on Accidental Gods - Episode #73 https://accidentalgods.life/reworlding-co-creating-a-politics-of-wholeness/
The film on the Ogiek of Mount Elgon that Justin mentioned is here
Deep Decolonisation Resource is here

enJanuary 04, 2023

How To Prepare For A Grant Application And Why You Need A ToC (Theory of Change) With Sandy Blackburn

Getting a grant that will help boost your business or kick off a project that’s dear to your heart is the most amazing feeling. And to be honest, it’s a feeling that doesn’t happen very often because the competition for receiving a grant is intense.

Even the best ideas and best grant writers aren’t often successful in getting a grant.

But if you’ve applied for a grant before, it’s even harder. You may not know what’s expected or even how to get started with your grant application.never

And because it can take A LOT of work to apply, you want to make sure that you’re giving yourself every chance of succeeding in getting that grant.

Today’s guest on the OBL podcast is Sandy Blackburn, from Social Outcomes. She’s an expert in researching, designing, costing, implementing, measuring and financing impact. And she has helped evaluate a lot of grant applications.

And Sandy knows that the first step towards even having a chance at being successful is to understand whether what you do to help your customers is actually working. Whether it’s successful in generating short and long-term success in terms of achieving the desired outcomes.

In the interview, Sandy shares with us a key tool for measuring successful outcomes, the ToC or Theory of Change framework.

The Theory of Change framework has been around for a long time (it used to be known as Program Logic), but not that many people know how to use it effectively … especially when needing to show that your business is making a difference (which you need to do in grant applications).

In the interview we talked about:

[1:53] What a Theory of Change is

[3:03] How Sandy got started working with the whole Theory of Change concept

[5:14] The logic behind Theory of Change

[11:21 The novel idea that businesses should be measuring how successful they are at helping their customers achieve their desired outcomes

[12:07] Things to think about before starting the grant application process

[17:02] Where to start if you’ve never done a grant application before

[19:52] Key steps in planning the grant application process

[23:40] Figuring out how much money to ask for

[25:17] Why you need to include a dollar amount for measuring your outcomes

[27:06] The most common mistake grant applicants make and how to avoid it

[29:35] How you can work with Sandy on a 1-to-1 basis to develop a Theory of Change for your business

For more information about booking a Theory Of Change workshop for your business: https://onlinebusinessliftoff.com/ToC-workshop

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enMarch 23, 2022

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Plan. Pause. Reset: Real Steps to Radical Transformation with Eva Schonveld and Justin Kenrick

How To Prepare For A Grant Application And Why You Need A ToC (Theory of Change) With Sandy Blackburn