Lessons and Challenges with Collaborative and Collective Impact Approaches

59
Lessons and Challenges with Collaborative & Collective Impact Approaches Krystal Woolston, Montclair State University Robert Hackett, Bonner Foundation Fall 2015

Transcript of Lessons and Challenges with Collaborative and Collective Impact Approaches

Page 1: Lessons and Challenges with Collaborative and Collective Impact Approaches

Lessons and Challenges with Collaborative &

Collective Impact ApproachesKrystal Woolston, Montclair State University

Robert Hackett, Bonner Foundation

Fall 2015

Page 2: Lessons and Challenges with Collaborative and Collective Impact Approaches

Agenda

• Welcome: Introductions & Overview

• Collaboration vs Collective Impact Define terms

• Example: Montclair State University

• Discussion: Steps, Considerations, Challenges, Observations

• Resources

Page 3: Lessons and Challenges with Collaborative and Collective Impact Approaches

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

Page 4: Lessons and Challenges with Collaborative and Collective Impact Approaches

5 Principles for Success for Collective Impact

• Common Agenda

• Shared Measurement Systems

• Mutually Reinforcing Activities • Continuous Communication • Backbone Support Organizations

Page 5: Lessons and Challenges with Collaborative and Collective Impact Approaches

Back

bone

O

rgan

izat

ion

Collective Impact Process

Page 6: Lessons and Challenges with Collaborative and Collective Impact Approaches

Why Partner with Collaboratives?

• They are key to systemic change

• Underfunded, often with no staff

• Depend on information and communication for effectiveness

Page 7: Lessons and Challenges with Collaborative and Collective Impact Approaches

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

Page 8: Lessons and Challenges with Collaborative and Collective Impact Approaches

Capacity Building OpportunitiesService

Providing Collaboratives

Volunteer Management

Program Development

Fundraising

Communication

Research

Page 9: Lessons and Challenges with Collaborative and Collective Impact Approaches

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)

Page 10: Lessons and Challenges with Collaborative and Collective Impact Approaches
Page 11: Lessons and Challenges with Collaborative and Collective Impact Approaches
Page 12: Lessons and Challenges with Collaborative and Collective Impact Approaches

Orange Collaborative Example

• History of City of Orange

• Partnership with Orange Public Schools

Page 13: Lessons and Challenges with Collaborative and Collective Impact Approaches

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

Page 14: Lessons and Challenges with Collaborative and Collective Impact Approaches

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

Page 15: Lessons and Challenges with Collaborative and Collective Impact Approaches

Challenges

• Communication

• Funding Requirements

• Data Collection and Monitoring

• Partners

Page 16: Lessons and Challenges with Collaborative and Collective Impact Approaches

Lessons Learned• Partnership

• Be specific and put it in writing

• Governance Structure

• Communication

• Accountability

• Don’t let money rule

Page 17: Lessons and Challenges with Collaborative and Collective Impact Approaches

All Group Discussion• Observations

• Opportunities

• Successes & Challenges

• Considerations

• Steps

Page 18: Lessons and Challenges with Collaborative and Collective Impact Approaches

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?

Page 19: Lessons and Challenges with Collaborative and Collective Impact Approaches

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?

Page 20: Lessons and Challenges with Collaborative and Collective Impact Approaches

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?

Page 21: Lessons and Challenges with Collaborative and Collective Impact Approaches

Resources

• StriveNetwork.org

• CollectiveImpactForum.org

Page 22: Lessons and Challenges with Collaborative and Collective Impact Approaches

Older Slides for Easy Reference

Page 23: Lessons and Challenges with Collaborative and Collective Impact Approaches

Community Weaving Supporting Local Networks

Page 24: Lessons and Challenges with Collaborative and Collective Impact Approaches

Why Partner with Collaboratives?

• They are key to systemic change

• Underfunded, often with no staff

• Depend on information and communication for effectiveness

Page 25: Lessons and Challenges with Collaborative and Collective Impact Approaches

Systemic Change Example

StriveNetwork.org

Page 26: Lessons and Challenges with Collaborative and Collective Impact Approaches

•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

Page 27: Lessons and Challenges with Collaborative and Collective Impact Approaches

Five Principles for Success

• Common Agenda • Shared Measurement Systems • Mutually Reinforcing Activities • Continuous Communication • Backbone Support Organizations

Page 28: Lessons and Challenges with Collaborative and Collective Impact Approaches

BackboneOrg

Levels of Collaboration

Page 29: Lessons and Challenges with Collaborative and Collective Impact Approaches

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.

Page 30: Lessons and Challenges with Collaborative and Collective Impact Approaches

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.

Page 31: Lessons and Challenges with Collaborative and Collective Impact Approaches

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.

Page 32: Lessons and Challenges with Collaborative and Collective Impact Approaches

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

Page 33: Lessons and Challenges with Collaborative and Collective Impact Approaches

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)

Page 34: Lessons and Challenges with Collaborative and Collective Impact Approaches

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.

Page 35: Lessons and Challenges with Collaborative and Collective Impact Approaches

Identifying Partners

• Ask existing partners, contacts

• Google it

Page 36: Lessons and Challenges with Collaborative and Collective Impact Approaches

Collaboratives

Collaborative

InitiativeNetwork

WorkgroupCommittee

Alliance

Commission

Partnership Coalition

Council

Page 37: Lessons and Challenges with Collaborative and Collective Impact Approaches

Mapping Trenton Networks

Page 38: Lessons and Challenges with Collaborative and Collective Impact Approaches

Trenton, NJ

Page 39: Lessons and Challenges with Collaborative and Collective Impact Approaches

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 

Page 40: Lessons and Challenges with Collaborative and Collective Impact Approaches

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

Page 41: Lessons and Challenges with Collaborative and Collective Impact Approaches

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

Page 42: Lessons and Challenges with Collaborative and Collective Impact Approaches

Network the NetworksAfter-School School Breakfast

Healthy Kids

Youth Employment

Juvenile Crime

Page 43: Lessons and Challenges with Collaborative and Collective Impact Approaches

Community Needs

✓Inventory community needs

✓ Survey

✓ Interview“How might you utilize a student intern 8-10 hrs a week?”

Page 44: Lessons and Challenges with Collaborative and Collective Impact Approaches

Matchmaking

Schedules

SkillsNeeds

Page 45: Lessons and Challenges with Collaborative and Collective Impact Approaches

Managing Teams

•Community Partner supervisor

- On-going direction

•Campus supervisor

- Quarterly meetings with student and site supervisor

Page 46: Lessons and Challenges with Collaborative and Collective Impact Approaches

Measure Network Impact

Page 47: Lessons and Challenges with Collaborative and Collective Impact Approaches

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

Page 48: Lessons and Challenges with Collaborative and Collective Impact Approaches

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.

Page 49: Lessons and Challenges with Collaborative and Collective Impact Approaches

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.

Page 50: Lessons and Challenges with Collaborative and Collective Impact Approaches

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.

Page 51: Lessons and Challenges with Collaborative and Collective Impact Approaches

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

Page 52: Lessons and Challenges with Collaborative and Collective Impact Approaches

re•imagine ourCommunity Partnerships

98%

2%

75%

25%

Page 53: Lessons and Challenges with Collaborative and Collective Impact Approaches

NJ Collaboratives Bonners Serve With

Page 54: Lessons and Challenges with Collaborative and Collective Impact Approaches

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

Page 55: Lessons and Challenges with Collaborative and Collective Impact Approaches

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

Page 56: Lessons and Challenges with Collaborative and Collective Impact Approaches

Capacity Building Opportunities Form

Page 57: Lessons and Challenges with Collaborative and Collective Impact Approaches

Internship Description

Page 58: Lessons and Challenges with Collaborative and Collective Impact Approaches

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."

Page 59: Lessons and Challenges with Collaborative and Collective Impact Approaches

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!!