Our Proof of Concept
Our projects are, in effect, tools with two goals. Firstly they should motivate others to replicate widely our solutions to social injustices. Secondly, they should justify a campaign for changes in public policy. For this reason, we aim to develop projects that will have irrefutably successful outcomes, achieved within viable, operational templates.
The terms and conditions applied to our projects, we believe, helps to achieve this. However, as an innovative organisation we also understand that when trying new models and new ideas, outcomes may not always be as originally projected or proposed. Crucial to the Commonweal Housing rationale is the desire to ensure lessons are learnt that will aid positive delivery and solutions to social injustice in the future. We believe this therefore also requires input from an impartial third party evaluator. For that reason core to the Commonweal Housing offer is that we sponsor experts in the field of social justice that we are attempting to resolve to operate with us and our partners in a feedback loop aiming to achieve proof of concept within two to three years.
As well as applying "a fresh pair of eyes" to our projects, these experts also contribute new ideas to drive the partners to try even harder to "raise the bar".
We welcome approaches from experts in any area of social injustice where they could help us with this evaluation process because often this can lead us to creating and delivering new solutions. Please contact us with your ideas.