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Scot Evans

Organizing Upgrade - 1 views

www.organizingupgrade.com

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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.
Scot Evans

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
Scot Evans

COALITION OF IMMOKALEE WORKERS - 0 views

www.ciw-online.org

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shared by Scot Evans on 29 Apr 09 - Cached
  • Scot Evans on 29 Apr 09
     
    The CIW is a community-based worker organization. Our members are largely Latino, Haitian, and Mayan Indian immigrants working in low-wage jobs throughout the state of Florida. We strive to build our strength as a community on a basis of reflection and analysis, constant attention to coalition building across ethnic divisions, and an ongoing investment in leadership development to help our members continually develop their skills in community education and organization.
Scot Evans

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

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shared by Scot Evans on 22 Nov 10 - No Cached
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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.”
Scot Evans

AISR: Commentary - The Growing Impact of Youth Organizing for Education Reform - 0 views

www.annenberginstitute.org/...index.php

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shared by Scot Evans on 24 Aug 11 - No Cached
  • In communities around the nation, youth organizing groups have become outspoken, effective, and powerful partners in school reform — and, in the process, are preparing to be empowered, educated, and engaged adults and citizens.
  • Scot Evans on 24 Aug 11
     
    In communities around the nation, youth organizing groups have become outspoken, effective, and powerful partners in school reform - and, in the process, are preparing to be empowered, educated, and engaged adults and citizens.
Scot Evans

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

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shared by Scot Evans on 17 Apr 09 - Cached
  • 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

Call for Investment in Prevention - 0 views

www.convergencepartnership.org/...%20CEO%20letter-final_0818.pdf

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shared by Scot Evans on 25 Aug 09 - No Cached
  • Scot Evans on 25 Aug 09
     
    CEO's of 6 national foundations and health care organizations released a joint letter yesterday calling for greater investment in community prevention.
Scot Evans

"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.
Scot Evans

Return on Investment of $115 to $1 - National Committee For Responsive Philanthropy - 0 views

www.ncrp.org/...turn-on-investment-of-115-to-1

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shared by Scot Evans on 18 Jan 12 - No Cached
  • "This report demonstrates without a doubt that foundation funding for advocacy and civic engagement results in substantial benefits for families and communities across the nation," said Aaron Dorfman, executive director of NCRP. "These strategies enable nonprofits and grantmakers to address complex social and economic challenges effectively and improve the lives of the under-served."
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