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How To: Budget For Your New Initiative
During Te Koānga (an accelerator programme we ran in 2015), the teams used this budget template to help track their initial setup costs and spending.
If you’re just starting some kind of social enterprise or initiative, you can use this …
Theory of Change Worksheet
What is a Theory of Change?
A Theory of Change is your best guess about how your work impacts the issue you care about. This worksheet provides a simple starting point for thinking about the causes that contribute to …
Top 5 reasons to support your people to attend the Flourishing Fellowship
Are you a manager or decision-maker trying to decide whether to “sign off” on somebody’s participation in this year’s Flourishing Fellowship? Well – this blog post is for you.
Paul McGregor was one of our original Flourishing Fellows. Now, as …
What is a Social Innovation Lab? [Part 2]
image courtesy of DESIS: http://www.newschool.edu/desis/
We’ve talked a bit recently about how Lifehack emerged in 2014 to go beyond running a few events, and start asking the hard questions about the role of social innovation in improving youth wellbeing, and …
Design for Complexity – Talking Social Innovation Practice
What is the role of Design in Social Innovation?
We’ve been asking ourselves this a lot recently, and we were delighted when we were asked to drop in to Massey University’s Design School to speak to the 4th year students …
Developing Social Technologies – Two Pioneering Reports
How do technologies which improve lives get developed?
We’ve been asking ourselves this question at Lifehack for 18 months now, and feel like we’re beginning to find some of our own answers. Not only are we seeing the development of …
#LifehackLabs – Introducing the Projects & Ventures!
Lifehack Labs was our deepest program to date to discover how we might enable bright Kiwi minds to improve the wellbeing of other young Kiwis through technology.
It took the shape of a 5 week social innovation bootcamp which brought …
Meet The Author of ‘Social Labs Revolution’!
Do you want to meet the Author of a book which helped inspire Lifehack Labs?
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Back in February, we were deep in research mode – trying to make sense …
#LifehackLabs Participants’ Perspective: Week 5
With the labs coming to a close, we asked the participants to reflect over the last 5 weeks and share something they had gained during their time at #lifehacklabs.
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#LifehackLabs Participants’ Perspective: Week 4 – Piles of Post It Notes!
This week the participants were super busy. Even more super busy than the weeks before. As a tribute to this busy-ness, this week’s blogpost is an attempt to document just some of the thoughts, questions , processes and progress the …
#LifehackLabs – Week 3 – Participants’ Perspective: Hip Hop Styles!
This week we mixed it up a bit, crowdsourcing the week’s happenings from Gemma, Jade, Caroline, John, Michael, Steven and Katie which were then free-styled by Lifehack Labs’ resident rapper Aaron. Have a listen here.
First day ate cake,
Celebrate …
#LifehackLabs – Week 2 – Tool up, Team up
We asked our #lifehacklabs Co- Lead Chelsea Robinson to give us a run down on what happened in week 2.
If week one was about downloading information and new ideas and new thinking around wellbeing and technology, week two …
