Transcript NNIP Work Plan and Network Update Kathy Pettit NNIP/Urban Team & Executive Committee May 7, 2015

NNIP Work Plan and
Network Update
Kathy Pettit
NNIP/Urban Team & Executive Committee
May 7, 2015
NNIP Assessment
• Completed by Aspen Institute in 2014
• Full report available on NNIP website
• Two overarching themes
– High praise for NNIP as a community of practice
– NNIP could do more to raise its visibility and
influence
NNIP Work Plan 2015-17:
Purposes
• Articulate strategic principles for
decisionmaking on new and future work
• Plan for near-term activities and staffing
• Review priorities and how we are investing
across our goals
• Share upcoming plans with supporters,
colleagues and partnership
• Create framework for identifying gaps and
cultivating new ideas and support
NNIP Activities
1. Build and strengthen local capacity
– Current partners: Leah, Rob, Bob, Eleanor
– New partners: Kathy, Sheila
2. Inform local and national policy
– Tom, Max, Jeff
3. Build support for community information field
– Kathy, Sheila, Mark
4. Cross-cutting activities
1. Build and strengthen local capacity:
Current partners
• Build local partner capacity
• Increase network participation
• Increase partner and network accountability
1. Build and strengthen local capacity:
Sample of ideas
• Meeting presessions for deeper training
• Foster peer learning – introduce affinity groups
around geography or topic
• Increased engagement between meetings
(check-in calls, conferences, idea showcase)
• Better integration for new and junior staff
(welcome note, buddies, participation ideas)
• Make responsibilities to network clear – give
more feedback
1. Build and strengthen local capacity:
New partners
• Develop explicit principles for growth
• Develop standardized materials and protocols
to use and share
• Prepare annual plan for outreach and
assistance
2. Inform local and national policy
• Manage existing cross-site projects
• Develop new cross-site projects
– Assess and prioritize topics
– Write initial top concept designs
• Communication
– Develop content about local policy impacts
– Consider audience and channels
2. Inform local and national policy
Cross-site ideas
• Gentrification/mixed
income
• Heathy housing
• Suburbanization of poverty
• Health and community
development
• Affordable housing
• Re-segregation of schools
• Rebound neighborhoods
• Chronic absenteeism
• Income inequality
• Crime and prisoner re-entry
• 211 and 311 systems
• Social capital
• Social determinants of
health
3. Build support for community
information field
• Develop communications materials for
targeted audiences
• Conduct outreach and build relationships
• Examples
– Federal agencies
– Federal Reserve network
– Community foundations
– Others? Help us expand and prioritize the list
4. Cross-cutting activities
• Develop content
• Improve network branding
• Improve communications
• Diversify funding for network operations and
special projects
Questions
• General reactions to work plan process?
• How do we offer ways for partners to engage
in planning at different levels of intensity?
• What are we missing? Any burning priorities?
• What are the larger questions we should be
asking?
• What roles are there for partners in each set of
activities?