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This resource from the Centre for Charity Effectiveness aims to encourage and assist nonprofit organisations who are striving to ensure the full participation at board level of those with lived experience of their organisation's cause. Includes insights and case studies from contributors across the nonprofit sector, CCE explorations of key topics, and a host of useful links.
How to support senior leaders to commit to youth voice
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Practical guidance on influencing senior leaders to involve people - of use to anyone who is thinking about this topic, not just to those working with children and young people.
Making the case for involvement to senior leaders
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The working group on Advancing Involvement in Charity Leadership' has written this paper to share how we have tried to ensure that senior leaders recognise the value of involvement and continue to support it. This paper looks at:
• What has worked for working group members
• Top tips
Motivating staff to keep involving people during the pandemic
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It can be harder to encourage and motivate staff to begin or continue to involve people when you can’t do this face to face. We talked about this challenge at our meeting in October 2020. This paper is a summary of what members are doing.
Communicating with and influencing staff about involvement
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At our meeting on 7th December 2016, Simon Denegri, National Director for Patients and the Public in Research at the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) and Chair of INVOLVE led a great session on communicating with and influencing other staff about involvement. These are notes from Simon’s talk.
Revolving Doors – user involvement guide
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A guide for organisations working with offenders, ex-offenders and their families, but very transferable to involvement with other groups of people.
Making involvement a priority in your organisation
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In February 2012 members of the Shared Learning Group had a discussion about how to make user involvement a priority in our organisations. This paper summarises the suggestions people came up with.
Keeping user involvement on the agenda
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This paper was written by David Jones, User Involvement Manager for Diabetes UK, about his experience of trying to build user involvement within the charity and the lessons he has learned.
Please note this paper is for members only and should not be shared more widely.