About
Expanding our capacity to do good.
Real Good builds the practical conditions that help people and organisations turn good intentions into effective action.
Our approach
Start with the whole situation.
We look across the people, organisations and systems involved before deciding what kind of intervention is needed.
The answer may be a venture, community, technology, programme, partnership or organisational system.
Why we work across areas
Social problems rarely respect organisational boundaries.
Real Good combines community, technology, research, ventures and partnerships where that combination creates a stronger response.
Principles
What guides the work
Expand agency
Increase people’s practical ability to understand, choose and act.
Create practical good
Turn worthwhile ideas into useful capability.
Look at the whole situation
Understand the relationships and systems around each problem.
Learn through action
Use evidence and experience to improve what we build.
Strengthen collective capability
Help people and organisations achieve more together.
Build for continued value
Create capability that can support further positive action.
Founder
Julian Knowles
Founder & CEO
Julian’s background spans technology strategy, enterprise architecture, software development and public-sector transformation.
Real Good brings those disciplines into social-good work: understanding complex situations, designing practical systems and building the capabilities needed to make positive change possible.
Work with Real Good Social
Build something good with us.
Bring the change you want to see. We’ll bring the systems, tools and people to make it happen.