The document discusses the concept of "ChangeMakers", which are community groups focused on positively imagining and creating change through citizen engagement, social entrepreneurship, and capacity building. It outlines principles for ChangeMakers groups, which include being self-funding, focused on long-term systemic change, fostering social entrepreneurship and innovations, and taking advantage of networking technologies. The goal is to create a society where every citizen feels empowered to create positive change.

1. ChangeMakers
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2. “...a few friends
started talking ...”

3. What would it take to ...
reinvent
citizen engagement
in an age of retail
politics ?

4. What would it take to ...
reinvent
community groups
in an age of contracted
social services ?

5. What would it take to ...
reinvent
the welfare state
in an age of the
poverty industry ?

6. What would it take to ...
reinvent
environmentalism
in the face of global
climate change ?

7. What would it look like if community
groups were ...
self‐funding
self‐organising

8. What would it look like if community
groups were ...
focused on questions and
inquiry

9. What would it look like if community
groups were ...
focused on positively
imagining the future

10. What would it look like if community
groups were ...
focused on BIG pictures
and on systemic and
sustainable change

11. What would it look like if community
groups were ...
fostering
long‐term thinking

12. What would it look like if community
groups were ...
fostering
social entrepreneurship
and exploring innovations

13. What would it look like if community
groups were ...
capacity‐building at the
level of each individual
citizen

14. What would it look like if community
groups were ...
taking advantage of the
new networking
technologies

15. ChangeMakers
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16. The ultimate goal of a
social entrepreneur is one
of creating a society
where every citizen is a
ChangeMaker
Bill Drayton, founder of the
international social entrepreneur
network Ashoka (2006)

17. 5-10-5-10

18. 5-
spend 5% of your income
on directly supporting
citizenship action that
inspires you

19. 10-
do ten actions in the
next year focusing on
your personal passion in
citizenship action

20. 5-
spend 5% of your time on
active citizenship tasks

21. -10
join with ten other
people to create a
learning community to
support each other’s
work for change

22. Design
Elements

23. micro-philanthropy
funding our own social
visions
and the work for change
that inspires us

24. micro-philanthropy
contributing your
support not to one group
... but to directly fund
the actions of the many
individuals and
organisations that
inspire you

25. the citizen’s difference
providing a citizen’s
voice into the
professional work of
government Ministries and
local councils

26. going beyond the silos
reconnecting community
activism on justice
issues, on environmental
issues, and on social,
community and economic
development

27. fostering systemic thinking
from organising the
problems
... to healing the
problems

28. fostering long-term thinking
working to make
long‐term thinking
automatic and common
instead of
difficult and rare

29. funding active citizenship
joining with a group of
people to financially
support one person in
that group to work full‐
time on their
citizenship passion
for a year

30. hope as the first resort
spending 20 minutes each
day on building your
personal capacity to
positively imagine the
future

31. the huge growth of civil
society groups represents
humanity’s immune response
to political corruption,
economic disease, and
ecological degradation ...
Paul Hawken, “Blessed Unrest” (2006)

32. cross - generational
fostering the next
generation of active
citizenship

33. cross - generational
re‐connecting with our
rich history
of active citizenship

34. The “Florence” Principles
not telling people
what to think
... but giving them
the tools
to think with

35. The “Florence” Principles
not telling people
what to do
... but growing
the support
and capacity for them
to get on with it

36. Learning Community
around 10 people
meeting weekly
(April to September)
in a living room or
garage
“...a few friends
started talking ...”

37. Learning Communities
thrive in an environment
which encourages
dialogue, feedback,
contemplation and
empowerment ...
Peter Senge, “The Fifth Discipline”
(2006 edition)

38. Learning Communities
not working on a
common project ... but
helping each other
work on
your personal “recipe”
for being a
ChangeMaker

39. Learning Communities
peer learning
focusing on personal
capacity‐building and
support
for getting on with your
active citizenship

40. Buddy System
“ intentional learning
friendships ”
… fortnightly
appointments to talk
through your 5‐10‐5‐10

41. Learning Evenings
taking time for
Dialogue
and
BIG PICTURE thinking
on important issues

42. Learning Evenings
taking time together
to positively imagine
a different future

43. Learning Evenings

44. Learning Communities
Learning Group Blogs

45. Exploring - Prototyping
A national initiative group
5‐10 Development Group
thinking together
on the unfolding design
of these
new community groups
NATIONAL CO‐ORDINATOR
Billy Matheson

46. Exploring - Prototyping
A national resource website
www.changemakers.org.nz
with downloads
and booklist

47. Exploring - Prototyping
first research group
Taranaki ChangeMakers
evaluation
sharing what we have learned
SOCIAL OPEN SOURCING

48. Exploring - Prototyping
other groups
emerging in
Auckland and Wellington
and Taupo
… and internationally

49. Exploring - Prototyping
building 5‐10 principles
into your
existing groups
and organisations

50. ChangeMakers
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