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Impact
3 top tips for measuring your impact
byAlex Pielak Alex Pielak features in Property Week sharing his experience of measuring social impact in the built environment April 26, 2024
Impact
The social entrepreneur’s guide to impact
byAlex Pielak Discover how AKOU is revolutionising impact measurement for social entrepreneurs. February 8, 2024| 3 min read
Impact
Unlocking the Power of Social Entrepreneurs
byAlex Pielak AKOU’s ten year study for SSE is released – explore our key findings. January 30, 2024| 2 min read
Connection
Capturing the magic of the AKOU team
byTilley Harris Team photos can be a powerful tool to demonstrate the unique character of your team March 8, 2022| 4 min read
Connection
How Akou’s team culture could strengthen yours
byAlex Pielak How our Collective Perspective can strengthen your team and up-skill them to prove the good you do. February 17, 2022| 3 min read
Placemaking
How emotional intelligence makes better spaces
byTilley Harris Explore the ingredients needed to shape places with greater emotional intelligence February 9, 2022| 2 min read
Connection
Why a culture of appreciation is the secret sauce
byAlex Pielak Showing appreciation and gratitude is a strong foundation for successful team culture. February 3, 2022| 3 min read
Impact
Why the ‘social’ in ESG is so important
byAlex Pielak For us the Social in ESG has always been the most important thing. Find out why we think so January 18, 2022| 4 min read
Connection
Relationships really are everything. Here’s why
byAlex Pielak Understanding of relationships can be useful in unpicking and solving many challenges and problems. December 20, 2021| 4 min read
Community
New Brixton spaces designed for all Brixtonians
byRoshni Sharma A personal view on how spaces could help to rebuild and strengthen Brixton’s various communities. November 30, 2021| 7 min read
Impact
Measuring NewBridge’s social impact collectively
byAlex Pielak How AKOU is helping The NewBridge Project to understand the impact they make by making connections. July 22, 2021| 2 min read
Placemaking
Social impact frameworks made with the community
byTilley Harris We’re using our Social Impact Toolkits to show how the GLA’s Good Growth investment for the Brixton Rec achieves good… July 8, 2021| 3 min read
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