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Lessons and Challenges with Collaborative &
Collective Impact ApproachesKrystal Woolston, Montclair State University
Robert Hackett, Bonner Foundation
Fall 2015
Agenda
• Welcome: Introductions & Overview
• Collaboration vs Collective Impact Define terms
• Example: Montclair State University
• Discussion: Steps, Considerations, Challenges, Observations
• Resources
Collaborative vs Collective ImpactConvene around
Programs/Initiatives
Prove
Addition to What You Do
Advocate for Ideas
Work Together to Move Outcomes
Improve
Is What you Do
Advocate for What Works
5 Principles for Success for Collective Impact
• Common Agenda
• Shared Measurement Systems
• Mutually Reinforcing Activities • Continuous Communication • Backbone Support Organizations
Back
bone
O
rgan
izat
ion
Collective Impact Process
Why Partner with Collaboratives?
• They are key to systemic change
• Underfunded, often with no staff
• Depend on information and communication for effectiveness
Campus Assets• we already partner with a wide range of
local groups
• we are considered neutral for the most part
• we have useful networking skills in: organizing and facilitating meetings, doing research, using the internet to communicate and coordinate
Capacity Building OpportunitiesService
Providing Collaboratives
Volunteer Management
Program Development
Fundraising
Communication
Research
Students Can Assist With….• Administrative support
• Conduct research: ✓ Model programs & best practices ✓ Funding sources (finding upcoming grants) ✓ Data collection and analysis (local and state statistics) ✓ Conduct original research as needed (e.g., surveys, oral
histories, etc.)
• Assist in managing meetings (space, invitations, minutes)
• Set-up and maintain online networking (listervs, wikis)
• Organize social media outreach (Facebook, Twitter)
Orange Collaborative Example
• History of City of Orange
• Partnership with Orange Public Schools
Progress to Date• 2 Full-service University Assisted Community
Schools • Service-learning students • Bonner • Full-time EECO AmeriCorps Program • Services • 2.5 Million grant from DOE
• Healthy Orange Initiative
Successes• 73% of all students actively participating in
programs for support
• 36% of parents engaged in family activities
• Community Schooling has become rallying point for community organizations and partners
• District adopted community schools as part of strategic plan
Challenges
• Communication
• Funding Requirements
• Data Collection and Monitoring
• Partners
Lessons Learned• Partnership
• Be specific and put it in writing
• Governance Structure
• Communication
• Accountability
• Don’t let money rule
All Group Discussion• Observations
• Opportunities
• Successes & Challenges
• Considerations
• Steps
Steps• Reach out to existing vs starting new where
none exists
• Use local collaboratives using capacity-building opportunities form?
• Ask current partners what networks they are part of?
Common Considerations• Working on understanding different institutional
structures, calendar, language (e.g., hospital vs higher ed)
• What is the investment? what do people hope to get out of it?
• How to be respectful?
• What is higher education's role?
Challenges• Finding time in busy schedule to reach out to new
partners
• Finding the right students with the skills and interest
• Student schedules might not fit when collaboratives meet
• Who supervises the student when there isn't a staff director of the collaborative?
Resources
• StriveNetwork.org
• CollectiveImpactForum.org
Older Slides for Easy Reference
Community Weaving Supporting Local Networks
Why Partner with Collaboratives?
• They are key to systemic change
• Underfunded, often with no staff
• Depend on information and communication for effectiveness
Systemic Change Example
StriveNetwork.org
•Strive brought together more than 300 leaders of local organizations leaders to tackle the student achievement crisis.
•Their ambitious mission became to coordinate improvements at every stage of a young person’s life, from “cradle to career.”
•Strive focused the entire educational community on a single set of goals, measured in the same way.
•Participating organizations are grouped into 15 different Student Success Networks (SSNs) by type of activity, such as early childhood education or tutoring.
•34 of the 53 success indicators that Strive tracks have shown positive trends, including high school graduation rates, fourth-grade reading and math scores, and the number of preschool children prepared for kindergarten.
StriveNetwork.org
Five Principles for Success
• Common Agenda • Shared Measurement Systems • Mutually Reinforcing Activities • Continuous Communication • Backbone Support Organizations
BackboneOrg
Levels of Collaboration
SOCIAL CHANGE NETWORKSConnectivity Alignment Special-function
Mission is soley to connect people
and/or organizations to
one another
Mission is to both connect and
develop alignment among members, so that network members share a sense of identity
and/or value proposition.
Sets a specific goal to be accomplished
by the network.
Peter Plastrik and Madeleine Taylor, Network Power for Philanthropy and Nonprofits.” Available at www.barrfoundation.org.
NETWORK WEAVERS•Understand the structure and needs of the sector
• Improve knowledge sharing
•Catalyze and facilitate relationship development
•Begin to bring organizations together to work towards common goals
Peter Plastrik and Madeleine Taylor, Network Power for Philanthropy and Nonprofits.” Available at www.barrfoundation.org.
NETWORK BUILDING PROCESS1 2 3
Understand network needs, map connectivity and build
relationships with key players
Use a portfolio of tools/actions to build connections among network players and
strengthen network structure
Enable “virtuous cycle,” starting with stronger
network
Conduct learning / needs assessment
Map network structure and connectivity
Improve information flow
Make direct connections; facilitate group convenings
Build / strengthen network intermediaries
Identify and connect to new ideas and resources
More effective organizations
Stronger network
Stronger, more collaborative sector
Peter Plastrik and Madeleine Taylor, Network Power for Philanthropy and Nonprofits.” Available at www.barrfoundation.org.
Campus Assets for Community Weaving
• we already partner with a wide range of local groups
• we are considered neutral for the most part
• we have useful networking skills in: ‣ organizing and facilitating meetings, ‣ doing research, ‣ using the internet to communicate
and coordinate
Students/Campus Can Assist with...
• Administrative support
• Assist in managing meetings (space, invitations, minutes)
• Set-up and maintain online networking (listervs, wikis)
• Conduct research:
✓ Model programs & best practices✓ Funding sources (finding upcoming grants)✓ Data collection and analysis (local and state statistics)✓ Conduct original research as needed (e.g., surveys, oral
histories, etc.)
• Organize social media outreach (Facebook, Twitter)
www.bonner.org
Issues to Impact: Example — Immigration in New Jersey
Issue Immigrant integration and related issues.
Direct Service Citizenship application | Welcoming Events
Issue Education Documentary | Forums | Service Reflection
CBR Resource mapping
Issue Briefs Path to Citizenship | Ed Access | Labor
News Digest Local | State | National
Networking Statewide org | Campus prog | Social Med.
Identifying Partners
• Ask existing partners, contacts
• Google it
Collaboratives
Collaborative
InitiativeNetwork
WorkgroupCommittee
Alliance
Commission
Partnership Coalition
Council
Mapping Trenton Networks
Trenton, NJ
Healthy Kids Related Networksin Trenton, NJ
1. NJ Partnership for Healthy Kids, Trenton2. Shaping NJ3. Green Team4. State Advisory Council5. School Breakfast (the group we helped kickstart that will
now merge with the Healthy Kids)6. Trenton Prevention Policy Board- Health Team7. With Every Heart Beat is Life (WEHL)8. NJ Prevention Network- Healthy and Safe Physical
Environments; Active Living and Healthy Eating groups9. NJSAAC-Afterschool Snacks10. Tweet-2-Eat; Women's Fund11. Trenton Historic Development Collaboration
Four examples in TrentonISSUE
NETWORKStaff Support Support
Meetings
Manage Online
NetworkingResearch Social Media
Outreach
School Breakfast • VISTA
• Invitations• Note taking• Follow-up
• Email list
• Data• Model
Programs• Funding
After-School Programs • VISTA
• Invitations• Note taking• Follow-up
• Email list
• Data• Model
Programs• Funding
Prisoner Re-Entry • VISTA • Invitations
• Note taking • Email list
• Data• Model
Programs• Funding
Prevention Policy Board
• Staff• VISTA
• Invitations• Note taking• Follow-up
• Email list• Wiki
• Data• Model
Programs• Funding
NJ Teams• New Brunswick Community Food Alliance
• New Brunswick Partnership for Healthy Kids
• Trenton Prisoner Re-entry Task Force
• Trenton Policy Prevention Board
• Trenton Partnership for Healthy Kids
• Newark Center for Collaborative Change
• Newark City Hall Food Assessment
Network the NetworksAfter-School School Breakfast
Healthy Kids
Youth Employment
Juvenile Crime
Community Needs
✓Inventory community needs
✓ Survey
✓ Interview“How might you utilize a student intern 8-10 hrs a week?”
Matchmaking
Schedules
SkillsNeeds
Managing Teams
•Community Partner supervisor
- On-going direction
•Campus supervisor
- Quarterly meetings with student and site supervisor
Measure Network Impact
NETWORK STAGES1) Scattered Fragments 2) Single Hub-and-Spoke
3) Multi-Hub Small-World Network 4) Core / Periphery
from “Building Smart Communities through Network Weaving” by Valdis Krebs and June Holley © 2002-2006
NETWORK IMPACTNetworks can... Because they...
Increase efficiency • allow deep specializations to be linked rather than created under one roof.
Increase impact • can leverage the assets that already exist in a system by connecting them to each other.
Build remarkable capacities
• mobilize diverse and flexible individuals or organizations.
Peter Plastrik and Madeleine Taylor, Network Power for Philanthropy and Nonprofits.” Available at www.barrfoundation.org.
Quantitative Qualitative
✓ Efficiency: on average, how many steps it takes for any node to reach another node (lower is better)
✓ Resilience: how dependent the network is on key individuals
✓ Awareness: the number of individuals within the horizon of a given person/node
✓ Specific needs identified and met
✓ Information flow improvements✓ Spread of “best practices” or
new ideas✓ New or stronger hubs/weavers
acting as connectors✓ New collaborative activity✓ New resources connected or
introduced to the network✓ New shared resources serving
a greater number of organizations
NETWORK IMPACT METRICS
Peter Plastrik and Madeleine Taylor, Network Power for Philanthropy and Nonprofits.” Available at www.barrfoundation.org.
NETWORK BUILDING METRICS
✓ Identify needs, assets, and existing networks
✓Share knowledge and ideas
✓Make individual connections
✓Convene diverse groups to stimulate new thinking and connectivity
✓Build capacity of intermediaries
✓Spot new ideas and leaders and support their growth/spread
✓Connect network members to potential resources
✓Sector map✓New connections...‣ between weaver and
network members‣ among network
members‣ boundary spanning
connections
✓Statistical network strength measures‣ Efficiency‣ Resilience‣ Leadership / Awareness
✓Higher quality programs delivered
✓More clients served✓Underserved groups
better served✓More integrated
delivery (tied to higher quality
✓Greater capacity of sector to respond to / survive change
✓Observations of “other smart network” indicators‣ Innovations emerge
and spread across network
‣ Intermediaries stronger / playing valuable roles
‣ More voices get to table for issues with sector-level impact
‣ Natural collaboration increases (no weaver)
✓Synthesis of needs and ideas for projects
✓Convenings of diverse participants
✓Projects facilitated by weavers in process
✓New resources brought into the network
✓Support given to intermediaries
Network Weaver Activities
Outputs Network Level Outcomes
Sector Level Outcomes
Observed by Weaver
Measured by InFlow
Measurement TBD
Peter Plastrik and Madeleine Taylor, Network Power for Philanthropy and Nonprofits.” Available at www.barrfoundation.org.
NETWORK FUNCTIONS
Peter Plastrik and Madeleine Taylor, Network Power for Philanthropy and Nonprofits.” Available at www.barrfoundation.org.
Innovation generation of novelty (new knowledge, products)
Diffusion rapid spread of ideas, products
Combination assembling of new capacities
Alignment formation of new identity/brand
Mobilization reaching and activating many people
Exchange sharing of information widely
Assessment provision of diverse feedback/evaluation
Advocacy influencing existing decision making structures
Delivery bringing resources and assistance to increase capacity
re•imagine ourCommunity Partnerships
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NJ Collaboratives Bonners Serve With
Trenton Healthy Food Network
Mission Statement:
“Increase access to healthful, safe, affordable, culturally appropriate food while encouraging discussion and collaboration to make Trenton a healthier place to live, work, eat, and play.”
• Backbone: RWJ Foundation • Initiative: NJ Parternship for Healthy Kids• Housed in : Trenton YMCA • Collective Impact Structure
Help from Bonner AmeriCorps
• Coorinating Community Partners
• Establishing a Steering/Leadership Committee
• Research for Projects: Trenton Wellness Policy
• Assisting in Creating Working Groups
• Dissemintating Quality, Timely, Materials: Minutes, Org. Charts, Calendar Invites, etc.
• Collaborating with other AmeriCorps, VISTA, and Bonner Members
Capacity Building Opportunities Form
Internship Description
New Brunswick Community Food Alliance
Mission Statement:
"The NBCFA is committed to the development and maintenance of a sustainable local food system in the city of New Brunswick so that all of its residents have access to adequate amounts of nutritious, safe, affordable, and culturally appropriate food at all times in socially acceptable ways and enjoy the health and economic benefits of a strong local food system."
Help from Bonners & AmeriCorps: Rutgers the Collaborative
• Creating the NBCFA Logo
• Staffing out NBCFA
• Research to inform working groups
• Event planning
• Much, much, more...
• Ask Amy Michaels and Claudio!!