Lens Library

Curated Knowledge, Strategic Tools, and Ecosystem Insights

The Lens Library brings together blogs, sector notes, reflections, and tools designed for nonprofits, funders, and sector professionals navigating the capacity building and organisational development (CBOD) space and adjacent fields.
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Social Lens Reports

Social Lens Reports

Evidence-based insights for funders, leaders, and ecosystem partners.

Our reports unpack:

  • Sectoral shifts and system-level patterns

  • Sectoral shifts and system-level patterns

  • Sectoral shifts and system-level patterns

  • Thematic challenges across domains

  • Thematic challenges across domains

  • Thematic challenges across domains

  • Actionable recommendations rooted in field experience

  • Actionable recommendations rooted in field experience

  • Actionable recommendations rooted in field experience

Making Capacity Building Count Report 2024

Annual Report 2024 to 2025

Making Capacity Building Count Report 2024

Annual Report 2024 to 2025

Making Capacity Building Count Report 2024

Annual Report 2024 to 2025

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Knowledge Briefs & Blogs

Knowledge Briefs & Blogs

Timely, opinion-led reflections from the Social Lens team and collaborators.

These short-form pieces offer:

  • Strategic perspectives on sector trends

  • Strategic perspectives on sector trends

  • Strategic perspectives on sector trends

  • Practice-based learnings from our engagements

  • Practice-based learnings from our engagements

  • Practice-based learnings from our engagements

  • Insights into capacity, systems, and scale

  • Insights into capacity, systems, and scale

  • Insights into capacity, systems, and scale

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Covering Ground The Podcast

Covering Ground The Podcast

Conversations from the field, with people building the sector from within.

Covering ground explores:

  • To spotlight the journeys of social purpose organisations

  • To spotlight the journeys of social purpose organisations

  • To spotlight the journeys of social purpose organisations

  • To unpack how change is built, sustained, and scaled

  • To unpack how change is built, sustained, and scaled

  • To unpack how change is built, sustained, and scaled

  • To create a space for candid conversations on impact

  • To create a space for candid conversations on impact

  • To create a space for candid conversations on impact

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Tools for Access

Tools for Access

A curated collection of frameworks, templates, and diagnostic tools developed and refined across Social Lens engagements.

These resources are:

  • Designed for self-assessment and internal planning

  • Designed for self-assessment and internal planning

  • Designed for self-assessment and internal planning

  • Scalable and adaptable across organisations and contexts

  • Scalable and adaptable across organisations and contexts

  • Scalable and adaptable across organisations and contexts

  • Built to support program delivery, strategic clarity, and institutional strengthening

  • Built to support program delivery, strategic clarity, and institutional strengthening

  • Built to support program delivery, strategic clarity, and institutional strengthening