Social Connections
Social Connections will oversee a step-change in encouraging approaches and practices that value and commit to stewarding social capital.
Global Action Learning Network
Advancing social capital through collaboration
Social connections
Our Global Action Learning Network connects practitioners from across the US and UK to grow the social capital field by sharing their insights, improving best practices, and fostering collaboration in the social capital space.
This means creating greater visibility around who is doing what, encouraging investment in social capital-based solutions, supporting organisations with social capital-based programs to enhance their effectiveness through learning and capacity building, and encouraging action around our social connection interventions.
This draws on the extensive work undertaken in both the UK and the US which maps social connections and their impact on social capital.
UK and US Social Capital research
UK
Mapping Social Capital
Use our maps to explore how different types of social connection relate to community-level social capital and economic opportunity in places up and down the UK.
US
Social Capital Atlas
Utilise Opportunity Insights’ Social Capital Atlas tool to understand social capital in US communities and how it connects to children’s chances of rising out of poverty.
Join the Global Action Learning Network
Register your interest in the network as we develop opportunities for social capital practitioners in the UK, US and around the world to meet, enjoy peer-to-peer exchange, and build a social capital movement.
Explore our Social Connections work
Revealing Social Capital
We want to better understand how social connections between people affect the opportunities they have in their lives. We call this ‘social capital’.
Mapping Social Capital
Our Mapping Social Capital work looked at six billion UK Facebook friendships to see how connected people are across income levels.
