In this webinar, Tamarack thought leaders Jay Connor and Mark Cabaj explore the concepts and practices of Collective Impact type work more deeply. Specifically, they focus on the central and critical role of engaging the broader community in the work of collective impact. In practice, achieving community ownership for the outcomes goes well beyond a “nice to have” all the way to a pre-condition to seeing sustained change over the long run. While institutions can get hung up on roles, activities, ideology and funding, the broader community can bring a galvanizing focus to the outcomes to be achieved, clarity to “how will we know,” and the neutrality necessary to get beyond present practice. Ultimately, it is the behavior change in the community that creates the collective impact we are seeking.

Here are some related resources that were mentioned during the live broadcast:

• The Collective Impact Forum for CI resources, events and news: www.collectiveimpactforum.org
• Jay Connor's Working Differently Blog: www.workingdifferently.org
• Blog by Jay Connor: Understanding Measures: Moving from Counting to Accomplishing
• Jay Connor's Strategic Measures Matrix. The key "measure" about your CI measures that you should be concerned with is: "are they all in quadrant #4?" 
• The first-ever Collective Impact Summit happening October 6-10, 2014 in Toronto ON

You may also want to check out the recently published Stanford Social Innovation Review Supplement: Collective Insights on Collective Impact.

To email Jay Connor directly with your questions, please contact him at jcrubicon[at]gmail.com