CULTURE FOR CHANGE
About this good practice
Culture for Change is an innovative Association composed by highly skilled professionals, who are active in the sectors of Civil Society and Culture and promote the importance of social innovation for the sustainable development of the country. It is a diverse ecosystem of people with a variety of academic backgrounds and professions, and are connected by common values, participative and socially responsible practices.
It aims to bring together, support and promote its members, and ultimately stimulate the quality, development and context of Cultural and Social innovation in all its diversity. At the present, the Association has over 100 members, spread in all 13 regions of Greece and who operate in more than 25 cities all around Greece.
The trigger to initiate is the fragmentation of the cultural and civil society in Greece, the feeling of isolation for professionals working in the periphery, the knowledge gaps that exist in the Greek sociocultural ecosystem.
The network creates hybrid spaces for practitioners to meet, to collaborate in trust and develop common initiatives. It builds the evidence and promotes social impact in culture by gathering data, conducting research and advocating in policy making processes.
The stakeholders are funding organizations, local authorities and other organizations in field of culture and civil society, while its beneficiaries are the practitioners themselves and the communities that they wish to bring change.
Resources needed
CforC received a seed funding to support the development of its infrastructure. The financial model is a mix of grants, membership fees and providing services. Two persons are in the payroll as Administration, and Community Officers and it outsources accounting, legal services and IT.
Evidence of success
Culture for Change secured funding from the ideation stage. It has managed to double its members in two years. Even by being a new organization, it has been invited to comment on the National Development Plan of the Civil Society in Greece to address issues of the nonprofit cultural sector.
35% of its members operate in the periphery of Greece.
Potential for learning or transfer
Culture for Change has a unique model of governance that implements participatory and horizontal decision making processes. It follows an opportunity based model of collaboration due to the insufficient fund mechanisms in the country. It facilitated the dialogue between a diverse array of stakeholders to create a common language in Greece in respect with what social impact in culture means and how to measure it.
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