Some of our favourite resources to help you amplify your impact.

Updated 20th June 2024

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👋 Welcome

Dear changemakers,

We have collected the following resources to help you dive deeper into the theory and practice of systemic impact in the hope that they will help you amplify the positive impact of your work.

If you come across other resources that are relevant to this topic, please reach out to us via 💌 our contact form so we may include them!

The ChangemakerXchange Team

Resources

📰 Articles

Beginner

• [ ] **Bringing an Entrepreneurial Mindset to the World’s Failing Systems •** A HBR article by Charmian Love and Rachel Sinha introducing “systemspreneurs” as experts who identify the root causes of problems and set about finding long-term and long-lasting solutions.
• [ ] **Rethinking the Impact Spectrum •** An Ashoka U article by Marina Kim introducing Ashoka’s “Four Levels of Impact” framework.
• [ ] **Seven Lessons for Leaders in Systems Change •** An article by Ecoliteracy offering important lessons for educators and change agents involved in changing systems.
• [ ] **Systems Change: A High-Level Summary •** An Ashoka article by Florian Rutsch to give a brief overview of what systems change is.
• [ ] **Tackling Heropreneurship •** A SSIR article by Daniela Papi-Thornton making an argument for why we need to move from “the social entrepreneur” to social impact.

Intermediary

• [ ] **Collective Impact •** A SSIR article by John Kania and Mark Kramer claiming that large-scale social change requires broad cross-sector coordination, yet the social sector remains focused on the isolated intervention of individual organizations.
• [ ] Dancing with Systems • An article by Donella Meadows to better understand systems thinking mindsets and behaviours and assess where you stand in terms of these skills.