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Collaboration Multiplier - 0 views

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  • Scot Evans on 29 Jul 11
     
    Collaboration Multiplier is an interactive framework and tool for analyzing collaborative efforts across fields. It is designed to guide an organization to a better understanding of which partners it needs and how to engage them, or to facilitate organizations that already work together in identifying activities to achieve a common goal, identify missing sectors that can contribute to a solution, delineate partner perspectives and contributions, and leverage expertise and resources.
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MEASURING COMMUNITY CHANGE-Tamarack Institute for Community Engagement - 0 views

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shared by Scot Evans on 02 Dec 10 - No Cached
  • 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

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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A new collaboration system lets anyone, anywhere voice an opinion - 0 views

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shared by Scot Evans on 09 Apr 09 - Cached
  • Scot Evans on 09 Apr 09
     
    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.
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"Transformer: How to Build a Network to Change a System" | WiserEarth Blog - 0 views

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shared by Scot Evans on 23 Feb 11 - No Cached
  • 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.
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