Resources from a Workshop with DCYPN – November 13, 2014
This blog includes a presentation and resources shared at a workshop with Durham’s Children and Youth Planning Network.
A brief overview of key ideas emerging from the Collective Impact Summit
This overview of key ideas from the Collective Impact Summit held on Toronto on 6-10 October is reposted from The Collective Impact Forum www.collectiveimpactforum.org
At the recent Collective Impact Summit I hosted a panel discussion on Building Trust and Sustaining Momentum with Key Stakeholders. So what did we learn? Here are the big ideas for building trust and sustaining momentum that shone through in the discussion:
Resource Type: Publication | Author: Mark Cabaj
5 Simple Rules for Evaluating Collective Impact explores the challenges evaluators face in developing concepts and methods that are useful for the complex work of community change. Recognizing that Collective Impact has amplifies this challenge, Mark Cabaj recommends 5 simple rules for how to do this.
Breathing Life into Your Plans: Effective Implementation
Community Visions, Community Solutions: Grantmaking for Comprehensive Impact suggests that Collective Impact requires funders to think differently, community leaders to simultaneously collaborate while they compete, and business and government leaders to apply their skills and power to advance the work of...
Snap Back: Experiencing the Challenge of Resilient Systems
Director of the Health Industry Management Program at the Schulich School of Business and co-author of the bestselling book Getting to Maybe: How the World is Changed, Brenda Zimmerman is using her knowledge of complexity to bring new insights to the theory and practice of Collective Impact.
Essential Mindset Shifts for Collective Impact
As co-author with Mark Kramer of the seminal article in 2011, John Kania played a significant role in putting Collective Impact on the social sector map. Three years later Kania is still leading the way by exploring how we need to think differently to achieve transformational change.
Why Collective Impact and Why Now?
Melody Barnes first encountered Collective Impact through her work with the White House Council for Community Solutions, which identified it as characteristic of the key strategies to advance the communities agenda across America. Now as Chair of the Aspen Institute’s Forum for Community Solutions she is...
Resources from the Collective Impact Workshop – October 20th, 2014
Resources from a workshop hosted in British Columbia's Central Okanagan Region.
Reflections from the Collective Impact Summit
Reflections from the Tamarack Institute's 2014 Collective Impact Summit.
We are pretty good at learning about knowledge and skills, but we could be a lot better about learning collectively about how to be creative as individuals and together to have more collective impact.
Day 4 Highlights from the Collective Impact Summit
Day 4 of the CI Summit moves to implementation, featuring a conversation with Jay Connor about his work in Erie PA, followed by a wealth of case studies and workshops focusing on how to create effective Collective Impact initiatives.
A few of the things I am reflecting on and also links to some of the lyrics and little stories I shared the the first four days of the Summit.
Day 3 Highlights from the Collective Impact Summit
Day 3 at the Collective Impact Summit featured Brenda Zimmerman talking about how complexity requires a very different kind of leadership and why we need to prevent "snap Back" to older ways of thinking which cause CI initiatives to fail.
Day 2 Highlights from the Collective Impact Summit
Day 2 at the Summit featured a presentation by Collective Impact "Rockstar" John Kania on how we need to think differently about working together.
