What our partners say
From a Springboard:
“The PRISM team helped us develop a strategy that was ambitious in its vision but practical in its implementation design.
- Shreya Basu, then- Deputy Director and Regional Lead, Asia Pacific, Open Government Partnership
Working as Learning Partners:
“Nothing beats having an embedded learning partner –
who knows us, our long-term vision and how we work but also is continually helping us step back.They help us examine our progress, assumptions and practice and bringing in important connections and inspirations from beyond our own networks. The PRISM team have helped deepen our impact and accelerate our work significantly.”
- Associate Professor Ruth McCausland, Director of the Yuwaya Ngarra-li Initiative, UNSW, learning partner 2018-ongoing
“The real time advice and support we received was invaluable.
“Wow, what a powerful framework for learning - being in the hot seat was like nothing I've experienced before,
I really value the non-judgemental and reflective space that is created in the Action Learning Set. The value of the time, structure and relationships developed through the action learning set is immeasurable and critical to my role, the work of my organisation, and to the broader eco-system.”
- Jane Hunt, then-CEO, The Front Project
facilitating strengthened communication, dialogue and joint action between others in these spaces.”
It’s one of the greatest things we’ve been able to do to move our work forward.
- Erin Mazursky, Founder, Rhize
When we were developing our measurement framework for our new strategy, the PRISM team were able to quickly identify what was needed from our first attempt and give us a starting point for our senior team to design measures that keep us focused on real change. This kind of advice as a project would have been costly and cumbersome but by having an embedded and ongoing learning partner we could quickly get what we needed to make progress fast.”
- Shreya Basu, Chief – Country and Local Programs, Open Government Partnership
From Action Learning Set Members:
It was so incredibly useful to have the group mind supporting to help move the thinking and reflections forward - not to mention the concrete actions I started to take literally the same afternoon and the motivational boost from having support and more clarity on the issue. All in all, it was very useful as a process and empowering for me as a social enterprise leader to drive forward change and begin to unstick a major issue.”
- Kate Clugston
“I have felt both supported and challenged and have had break-through realisations
Projects to Build Collective Capacity:
May possesses an extremely rare talent for traversing the distinct universes of grassroots community work, high-level policy work and academic research: transitioning between these levels of engagement with apparent ease in her own work, and also
- Associate Professor Kate Macdonald, Melbourne University
‘Understanding Activism’ has … been incredibly groundbreaking — for us and for the field writ large.
That the strategy was unanimously approved by OGP’s Steering Committee and very well received by the OGP community is a testament to the quality of the process and deliverables. Many of the ideas May brought to the table for OGP Local are now informing other strategic processes within OGP, which goes to show the depth and richness of the inputs, and the deep understanding of the organisation developed over a relatively short period of time.
We also really appreciated May’s approach to the work – always collaborative and based on open, candid discussions. She was also deeply invested in ensuring that there was broadbased buy-in and excitement for the strategy as it was developing. Beyond the intellectual depth May brought to the process of developing the OGP Local strategy, she also made the process fun and enjoyable, earning trust and confidence from colleagues very quickly. It was a real pleasure and privilege working with her, and we look forward to future opportunities to work together again.”