Mission and Purpose
To enable communities to manage change and development by building community capacity and creating a culture of active citizenship.
History
Community Capacity Builders was established in January 2005 with support from the University of Adelaide’s Business Initiatives for Graduates program.
Specializations and activities
Enabling community and government systems to take a pragmatic approach to addressing community issues by recognising different types of issues (simple, complicated, complex) need to be addressed differently.
Major projects and events
Community Capacity Builders has developed the Community Capacity Builders Community Leadership Program and a Framework for Systemic Innovation and Systemic Change.
The Community Leadership Program has been promoted as best practice in a report presented to the Commonwealth People’s Forum which recommended the Commonwealth Foundation and Commonwealth Heads of Government support citizenship education programs (http://cscuk.dfid.gov.uk/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/citizenship-and-the-...) and in a 2012 issue of Adult Learning Australia’s Quest magazine which advocates for an increased focus on active citizenship education (https://ala.asn.au/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/Quest_01.pdf).
The Framework for Systemic Innovation and Systemic Change is described in the paper “Government’s role in social innovation: Balancing unplanned exploration and planned exploitation” which won the 2012 Award for Best Overall Paper at the 4th International Social Innovation Research Conference.