Summary
The Social Change Grid is a map of the different kinds of activity through which civil society brings about change. It came out of the Social Change Project of SMK (the Sheila McKechnie Foundation), in which around 400 change-makers took part over 18 months, and was published in its ‘Social Power’ report.
Two axes, formal to informal and individual to societal, give four quadrants: Community, Public Space, Service Provision and Institutional Power. SMK found that successful campaigns ‘pinball’ between them: change “originates in one quadrant, but success appears to require activity across many, if not all”. The grid, it says, “does not offer hard and fast answers”; it prompts questions.
Rationale
We use Part 2’s zones as SMK’s grid is used: to map work and spot gaps. Their pinball finding speaks to our question of whether work in one zone gains when “tethered to the others”.
Diagram not reproduced here (rights reserved) — see it at smk.org.uk ↗