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Why the Strive Framework? Arguing the “Value Proposition” Strive 2012 Cradle to Career Network Convening Milwaukee September 28 2012

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Why the Strive Framework?Arguing the “Value Proposition”

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Why is it important to be able to articulate a “Value Proposition” for the Strive Framework?

GUIDING QUESTIONS

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What kinds of approaches are useful?

When should we be ready to articulate the “VP”?

GUIDING QUESTIONS

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- Participant “check-in”

OUR WORKSHOP FORMAT

- How two C2C organizations articulate the “Value Proposition”

- Table talk

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- Participant “check-in”

OUR WORKSHOP FORMAT

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Given your decision to attend this workshop . . .

what’s on your mind?

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Thanks for that input !

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- Participant “check-in”

OUR WORKSHOP FORMAT

- How two C2C organizations articulate the “Value Proposition”

- Table talk

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Coming back to the first of our

GUIDING QUESTIONS:

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Why is it important to be able to articulate a “Value Proposition” for the Strive Framework?

GUIDING QUESTIONS

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“Process” or “systems” interventions are more difficult to sell than “product” interventions.

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Urgency exposed by data can waylay community confidence in being able to do something constructive.

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“...a great idea can spread so quickly and be adapted in so many ways that its original or true meaning can become muddled or lost.”

Jeff Edmondson & Nancy Zimpher

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A sense of competition can control the non-profit space.

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Now, the second set of our

GUIDING QUESTIONS:

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GUIDING QUESTIONS

What kinds of approaches are useful?

When should we be ready to articulate the “VP”?

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WHO WE ARE

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Six School Districts Engaged

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On You Tube !

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From Isolation to Collective Impact

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New System in the Middle

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Building a case document

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Comparing the Strive civic infrastructure to doing the usual

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So, we have established that we have an URGENT PROBLEM.

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Next, we must admit that

our usual efforts have

NOT WORKED.

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we look for the administrative hero who will slay the dragon of ineffective programs . . .

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. . . or we undertake

episodic “one-off” projects

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. . . or we invest in “silver bullets.”

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Building a case document

Comparing the Strive civic infrastructure to doing the usual

Picking up on signals

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- Participant “check-in”

OUR WORKSHOP FORMAT

- How two C2C organizations articulate the “Value Proposition”

- Table talk