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The Media That Matters Film Festival is the premiere showcase for short films on the most important topics of the day. Local and global, online and in communities around the world, Media That Matters engages diverse audiences and inspires them to take action.
On Dec. 1, 2005, nearly 40,000 people logged on to participate in the Habitat JAM, a 72-hour event which generated more than 4,000 pages of message-board style discussion, and resulted in 600 ideas to action.
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.
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.”
Below are resources to help educators and students explore health equity and deepen understanding of series concepts. These lesson plans, syllabi, facilitation guides and online courses draw the UNNATURAL CAUSES series, this Web site, and carefully selected resources.
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