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Scot Evans

Community Change Evaluation | The Aspen Institute - 0 views

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    "tools and techniques to guide practitioners, funders and evaluators as they develop and articulate their theories of change. We have also helped to clarify concepts, indicators and measures of "community building" such as civic and community capacity. More recently, the Roundtable has emphasized the learning dimensions of evaluation, advocating for evaluations to be structured so as to maximize their potential to build field-level knowledge about community change."
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Scalable Social Innovations | nuPOLIS - 0 views

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    nuPOLIS is the Internet presence of the Innovation Network for Communities (INC), a national non-profit helping to develop and spread scalable innovations that transform the performance of community systems such as education, energy, land use, transportation and workforce development.
Scot Evans

Organizing Upgrade - 1 views

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shared by Scot Evans on 04 Oct 11 - Cached
  • Scot Evans on 04 Oct 11
     
    Organizing Upgrade is an attempt to engage left leaders and innovators in the field of community organizing in a strategic dialogue.  We hope that this project can bring the kind of inspiration, vision and strategic clarity we need to strengthen our political impact, both in our immediate fight and in our longer-term efforts to build the social justice movement and to revitalize a movement-rooted left in the United States.  We hope that, by encouraging some of the leading innovators and leaders from the sphere of community organizing to put pen to paper and to speak their mind, we can develop unity and clarity about the key demands on left organizers in these times.
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When charity counts, but change is called for - 0 views

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  • Scot Evans on 15 Sep 10
     
    only through basic changes in underlying conditions in society, would the world be different.
Scot Evans

"Transformer: How to Build a Network to Change a System" | WiserEarth Blog - 0 views

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  • Start by understanding the system you are trying to change. Involve both funders and nonprofits as equals from the outset. Design for a network, not an organization—and invest in collective infrastructure. Cultivate leadership at many levels. Create multiple opportunities to connect and communicate. Remain adaptive and emergent—and committed to a long-term vision.
Scot Evans

MEASURING COMMUNITY CHANGE-Tamarack Institute for Community Engagement - 0 views

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  • Scot Evans on 02 Dec 10
     
    Is your community collaborative effort making a difference? To answer this question, you now have access to an array of tools and resources that can help you prove that it is.
Scot Evans

A New Wave of Community Organizers for the Obama Era | Peter Dreier's Blog - 0 views

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  • Scot Evans on 17 Apr 09
     
    More and more college students want careers where they can help make society more humane, fair, and environmentally sustainable. They want to put their skills, their idealism, and their energy to work promoting social justice. My colleagues around the country tell me that the same thing is happening on their campuses. A growing number of students are asking faculty and staff about internships, summer jobs, and careers working with non-profit, advocacy, and grassroots organizing groups. Why wait on tables when you could be changing the world?
Scot Evans

Collective Impact (November 17, 2010) | Stanford Social Innovation Review - 0 views

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  • Why has Strive made progress when so many other efforts have failed? It is because a core group of community leaders decided to abandon their individual agendas in favor of a collective approach to improving student achievement.
  • These leaders realized that fixing one point on the educational continuum—such as better after-school programs—wouldn’t make much difference unless all parts of the continuum improved at the same time. No single organization, however innovative or powerful, could accomplish this alone. Instead, their ambitious mission became to coordinate improvements at every stage of a young person’s life, from “cradle to career.”
  • Strive, both the organization and the process it helps facilitate, is an example of collective impact, the commitment of a group of important actors from different sectors to a common agenda for solving a specific social problem.
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  • collective impact initiatives involve a centralized infrastructure, a dedicated staff, and a structured process that leads to a common agenda, shared measurement, continuous communication, and mutually reinforcing activities among all participants.
  • arge-scale social change comes from better cross-sector coordination rather than from the isolated intervention of individual organizations.
  • In short, the nonprofit sector most frequently operates using an approach that we call isolated impact. It is an approach oriented toward finding and funding a solution embodied within a single organization, combined with the hope that the most effective organizations will grow or replicate to extend their impact more widely.
  • Shifting from isolated impact to collective impact is not merely a matter of encouraging more collaboration or public-private partnerships. It requires a systemic approach to social impact that focuses on the relationships between organizations and the progress toward shared objectives. And it requires the creation of a new set of nonprofit management organizations that have the skills and resources to assemble and coordinate the specific elements necessary for collective action to succeed.
  • “Mobilizing and coordinating stakeholders is far messier and slower work than funding a compelling grant request from a single organization. Systemic change, however, ultimately depends on a sustained campaign to increase the capacity and coordination of an entire field.”
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NOI Organizing Toolbox | Training Resources for Organizers - 0 views

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shared by Scot Evans on 14 Dec 10 - No Cached
  • Scot Evans on 14 Dec 10
     
    The New Organizing Institute just released the Organizing Toolbox - aresource of training materials for organizing
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