Avenues for Change
Social Work and Service Delivery
Last Updated: January 3, 2026Social work and service delivery constitute a central pillar of contemporary social support systems, concerned with responding to individual, family, and community needs arising from social, economic, and structural conditions. Social work is both a profession and a practice domain, while service delivery refers more broadly to the organisational and programmatic mechanisms through which support...
Community Organising: Building Collective People-Power
Last Updated: January 3, 2026Community organising is a practice of building collective power by bringing people together around shared concerns, lived experiences, and common interests in order to challenge injustice and create change. Unlike service delivery or advocacy conducted on behalf of communities, organising is rooted in the principle that people most affected by a problem should play a...
Policy Change and Systemic Reforms
Last Updated: January 3, 2026Policy change refers to deliberate efforts to alter the formal rules, regulations, laws, and institutional arrangements that govern social, economic, and environmental life. It is one of the most visible and codified pathways to systemic change, shaping how resources are allocated, how responsibilities are assigned, and how power is exercised within society. However, while policy...
Business for Good: the Role of Enterprise in Social Change
Last Updated: January 3, 2026Business for Good refers to approaches to enterprise that seek to generate social and ecological benefit alongside, or in place of, private profit maximisation. Rather than treating business as morally neutral or inherently extractive, this field examines how economic activity can be deliberately structured to serve collective wellbeing, environmental regeneration, and social justice. From Profit...
Not-For-Profit Organisations & Program Delivery
Last Updated: January 3, 2026Running a not-for-profit organisation involves far more than delivering programs or pursuing a social mission. Not-for-profits operate at the intersection of purpose, accountability, power, and practice. They must simultaneously respond to community needs, steward resources ethically, navigate regulatory environments, manage people and relationships, and demonstrate legitimacy to multiple stakeholders. This page provides a comprehensive overview...
Campaigning for Change: Activism and Social Movements
Last Updated: January 3, 2026Campaigning for change refers to the organised, intentional effort to shift social norms, policies, institutions, and power relations through collective action. It sits at the intersection of activism, organising, advocacy, and political strategy. While campaigns vary widely in form—from grassroots mobilisation and civil resistance to narrative change and policy advocacy—they share a common concern with...
The Humanitarian and Development Sector
Last Updated: January 3, 2026The humanitarian and development sector encompasses a diverse set of actors, institutions, practices, and ideas concerned with responding to human suffering, reducing vulnerability, and improving long-term social, economic, and ecological conditions. While often treated as a coherent field, the sector is internally complex and frequently marked by tensions between emergency response and long-term transformation, between...
Peacebuilding Efforts
Last Updated: January 3, 2026Peace is a multifaceted and contested concept that extends far beyond the absence of war or direct violence. Across scholarship and practice, peace is understood not only as a condition to be achieved, but as an ongoing process shaped by social structures, cultural norms, political institutions, and everyday relationships. Different theories of peace emphasise distinct...