Transcript Collective Impact: - Community Foundation of North Central

Collective Impact:
SOLVING THE “UNSOLVABLE”
How did the Tacoma School District increase its
graduation rate from 55% to 78% in only 3 years?
How did Chicago find unsubsidized employment for
almost 6,000 residents of its troubled public housing?
How did Franklin Co. reduce alcohol use among youth
by 37%, binge drinking by 50%, cigarette smoking by
45% and marijuana use by 31% - in only 8 years?
What is Collective Impact?
Collective Impact occurs when organizations from different
sectors agree to solve a specific social problem using a
common agenda, aligning their efforts, and using common
measures of success.
Origins
Stanford Social Innovation Review article (2011)
FSG Consulting Firm develops “Collective Impact Forum”
Funders increasingly recognizing value of this approach
Results are real, when projects are done right
“The appeal of collective impact may be due to a broad
disillusionment in the ability of governments to solve
society’s problems, causing people to look at alternative
models of change.”
- Fay Hanleybrown, Jay Kania, and Mark Kramer, Stanford
Social Innovation Review
Collective vs. Isolated Impact
Isolated:
•Finding and funding a solution embodied within a single organization
◦ “When a grantee is asked to evaluate the impact of its work, every attempt is made to isolate
that grantee’s individual influence from all other variables.”
◦ “…nearly 1.4 M nonprofits try to invent individual solutions to major social problems, often
working at odds with each other and exponentially increasing the perceived resources
required to make meaningful progress.”
Collective:
•Social problems arise from the interplay of government and commercial activities, not
only from the behavior of social sector organizations….
•Doesn’t it make sense to include them in the solution?
Five Conditions of Collective Impact
1. Common Agenda
Shared vision - WHAT
2. Shared Measurement
Plan - HOW
3. Mutually reinforcing Activities WHO does what WELL
4. Continuous Communication
Builds trust, common language
5. Backbone Support
Dedicated management
Preconditions for Collective Impact
1. An Influential Champion
2. Adequate Financial Resources
3. Urgency for Change
We believe this can happen in NCW!
•October workshop designed to help efforts already in
progress or those just forming.
•We will collect “Letters of Intent” to ensure that groups are
prepared to get the most out of the workshop.
•CFNCW will award most promising Collective Impact
initiative with funding to enlist help of a C. I. expert/advisor
for one year.
Collective impact 201
3 KEY CONCEPTS
Technical v. Adaptive Problems
Shared Value
Networks
Technical vs. Adaptive Problems
What’s the difference?
What’s the approach?
Who does the work?
Technical
Apply current know-how
Authorities
Adaptive
Learn new ways
The people with the problem
Which one is the technical problem?
"We were trying to find out what we
could do and what we could not"
"He is about performing that airplane to
the exact precision to which it is made."
What does this mean for how we work
. . . to solve
problems?
How we normally do work
. . . . and how it turns out
Who performed well
. . . and why
Shared Value
What is Shared Value?
Shared value is created when organizations view social
problems as opportunities to innovate and grow
Shared value is created when organizations treat social
problems as business objectives
Shared Value Opportunity in Education
Shared Value Opportunity in Health
Eighty percent of “health” is determined by physical
environment, personal behaviors and socio-economic
factors.
What gets in the way (of shared value)?
Networks
3 Types of Networks
Information
Alignment
Production
Attributes of a production network
Generates
Goods &
Services
Innovates
Builds
new
solutions
Capacity
Shared Value Proposition
Spreads
Mobilizes
Ideas &
Practices
Support
Advocates
for policies
Emerging Networks
When?
Why?
How?
Final Thoughts
You can do this!
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For more information
Adaptive Problems
Build a tower, build a Team – TED talk
Technical v. Adaptive
Networks
Net Gains
Shared Value
FSG’s Shared Value Initiative