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An Initiative of FSG and Aspen Institute Forum for Community Solutions

Collective Impact Funder Community of Practice: Large Group Learning Call

November 17, 2016

PREPARED FOR: COLLECTIVE IMPACT FUNDER COMMUNITY OF PRACTICE PARTICIPANTS


Agenda for Today’s CI Funder COP Learning Call

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Topics for Today’s Virtual Meeting Timing

• Introductions and COP Overview 10 min

• Failing Forward: Lessons from Hitting Roadblocks

in Collective Impact o Presentation and discussion with Maggie Morales,

Lake County Community Foundation

o Presentation and discussion with Tawanna Black,

Northside Funders Group

o Presentation and discussion with Martha Maksym,

United Way of Northwest Vermont

60 min

• Open Time for Group Discussion on Lessons

Learned from Hitting Roadblocks in Your Work 15 min

• Next Steps 5 min


I. Introductions and COP Overview

II. Failing Forward: Lessons from Hitting

Roadblocks in Collective Impact

III. Wrap Up and Next Steps

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Goals of the Collective Impact Funder Community of Practice

• Networking and building

relationships with other funders

of collective impact

• Learning about the strategies

and nuances for funders

engaging in collective impact,

and how to most effectively

engage in and support collective

impact

• Improving the practice of

grantmakers as funders and

partners in collective impact

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Since Mid-2014, the CI Funder COP Has Offered Meetings and Peer Learning Calls on Topics Such as Community Engagement, Equity, Funder Alignment, and Leadership

2014 2015 2016

May 2014:

COP

launches at

first annual

CI Funder

Convening

(Aspen)

Sept. 2014:

30+ COP

participants

join first

large group

learning call

Jan. 2015:

Small group

peer

knowledge

exchange

calls begin

Nov. 2014:

40

attendees

at first in-

person

COP

meeting

(Seattle)

May 2015:

Second

annual CI

Funder

Convening

(New

Orleans)

Feb. 2015:

Second in-

person

COP

meeting

(DC); ~50

orgs now in

the COP

Oct. 2015:

Third in-

person

COP

meeting

(Chicago)

Feb. 2016:

Fourth in-

person

COP

meeting

(DC)

June 2016:

Third

annual CI

Convening

(Seattle)

Sept. 2016:

Fifth in-

person

COP

meeting

(Chicago)

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47 Organizations Are Currently Participating in the CI Funder COP

Confirmed Funder COP Participants (as of November 2016)

• Annie E. Casey Foundation

• Aspen Community Foundation

• Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

• Campbell Soup Company

• Community Memorial Foundation

• First 5 LA

• First 5 Monterey County

• GlaxoSmithKline

• Greater Cincinnati Foundation

• Gulf Coast Community Foundation

• Healthcare Georgia Foundation

• Health Foundation of Central Massachusetts

• Health Foundation of South Florida

• Hunt Alternatives / Demand Abolition

• Institute of Mental Hygiene

• Interact for Health

• Lake Area United Way

• Legacy Foundation

• Lumina Foundation

• Michigan College Access Network

• Monterey Peninsula Foundation

• Northside Funders Group

• Ontario Trillium Foundation

• Robert R. McCormick Foundation

• Saint Francis Foundation

• Santa Fe Community Foundation

• SC Ministry Foundation

• Social Venture Partners

• Stuart Foundation

• The Children’s Trust

• The Community Foundation of Herkimer & Oneida

Counties

• The Findlay-Hancock County Community Foundation

• The HCA Foundation

• The Lake County Community Foundation

• The Rider-Pool Foundation

• The Seattle Foundation

• The Staten Island Foundation

• The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation

• United Way of Greater Cincinnati

• United Way of Hancock County

• United Way of Northwest Vermont

• United Way of the Greater Lehigh Valley

• United Way of the Greater Triangle

• Venture Philanthropy Partners

• Wisconsin Partnership Program

• Funder COP Organizing Partners: Aspen Forum for

Community Solutions, FSG, GEO, and GFE

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COP Participants Are Geographically Diverse, But Also Have Clusters in Places like Chicago, Cincinnati, and Seattle

= Headquarters of CI Funder COP Participant

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Suggested Ground Rules for Our Failing Forward Discussion

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1 Listen actively and do not interrupt if someone is speaking

2 What is said here, stays here; What is learned here leaves here

3 No one knows everything; together we know a lot

4 Notice and respect your and others’ experiences, emotions, and feelings

5 Speak from the I, not for the group

6 We cannot be articulate all the time; therefore, assume positive intent from others’ comments

7 Expect and accept a lack of closure

8 Challenge each other to help facilitate change and support each other

9 Strive to be present and make the best use of our time together


Two “Failing Forward” Stories from Robert and Jen on the Collective Impact Forum Team

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Stories from Three COP Members

Martha Maksym

Executive Director


Maggie Morales

Manager of Community Engagement


Tawanna Black

Executive Director


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The Alliance for Human Services

• History of the Alliance’s Formation

• Foundation’s Role

• Identifying a Sustainable Leadership and Business Model

• The Alliance’s Status

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Lessons Learned

• The Foundation encouraged the coalition to “staff up” too quickly.

• Laying the groundwork for a collaborative vision is critical.

• What we considered a long-term investment was not long-term enough.

• Build a sustainable leadership structure.

Q & A

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Martha Maksym

Executive Director


Maggie Morales



Tawanna Black

Executive Director


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Martha Maksym

Executive Director


Maggie Morales



Tawanna Black

Executive Director


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Chittenden County Opioid Alliance

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Group Discussion

• For our three “failing forward” presenters, what was the

experience like for you?

• For those listening to these stories, what are notable

takeaways or themes across the three stories?

• Does anyone else have a “roadblock” or challenge you

are facing in collective impact that you’d like to share

with the group (either today -- time permitting -- or in a

future call)?

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We Are Actively Planning our 2017 COP Calls and Meetings

January 2017 Informal Group Call

• When: TBD on Jan. 5 or Jan. 10 (indicate your availability in this poll)

• Topic: Group reflections on the U.S. election, and implications for your investments in

collective impact

February 2017 In-Person Meeting

• When: Feb. 8 (5:30-8:30pm EST, includes dinner) and Feb. 9 (8am-4pm EST,

includes breakfast and lunch, with optional happy hour from 4:30-6pm EST)

• Where: Washington, D.C.

• Topics: How-to discussion on the funder’s role in community engagement

• Planning to attend? You will receive an RSVP link in December

2017 Collective Impact Convening

• When: May 23-25, 2017

• Where: Boston, MA (see next slide for more details)

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Make Plans to Join Us at the 2017 Collective Impact Convening on May 23-25 in Boston

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2017 Collective Impact Convening Boston Park Plaza Hotel | May 23-25, 2017

• Field-wide convening for more than 400 funders,

backbones, and other collective impact partners

• Deep-dive workshops, tools sessions, and

one-on-one coaching on topics such as capacity

building, community engagement, engaging the

private sector, equity, leadership, learning and

evaluation, and use of data

• Joint conversations with attendees of the

Opportunity Youth Incentive Fund Spring

convening, a gathering of over 200 opportunity

youth leaders meeting at the same venue

The call for session proposal deadline is December 11; I will share COP registration

guidance in a few weeks, per your COP membership terms


Collective Impact Research Study

• The Collective Impact Forum will be commissioning a third-party study of the

collective impact approach across the field.

• Purpose: To understand the ways in which collective impact has contributed to

population level outcomes in a sample of mature collective impact efforts across the

U.S., working to address a range of issue areas (e.g., education, juvenile justice

reform, health, economic development/employment, housing/homelessness,

substance abuse, obesity).

• Focus: The study will highlight where and how population level outcomes are being

achieved, challenges and opportunities CI efforts are experiencing, issues of

sustainability, and lessons learned regarding the achievement of population level

outcomes.

• Audiences: 1. Practitioners and supporters engaged in collective impact who seek to

understand lessons that have been learned to date in order to improve their own

efforts; 2. Those who are not involved in collective impact but are interested in seeing

more evidence that it can be an effective approach to achieving social impact on a

variety of social issues.

• Investment Opportunity: We estimate that this robust study will cost $400,000 -

$500,000, and we are in active fundraising mode. If anyone is interested in joining the

funding collaborative for the study, please let us know.

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