Introduction to Collective Impact 3.0
About this Presentation: Introduction to Collective Impact 3.0
Date: Monday, March 28, 2022
Time: 9:00 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. via Zoom
Registration: Free. All are welcome! Unable to attend? Register for the recording-only option.
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Overview: Join Sylvia Cheuy of internationally recognized Tamarack Institute for a presentation on how communities can use a Collective Impact 3.0 framework to collaborate for greater success in solving complex social issues and to increase our community’s capacity to work together to build movements and make lasting systems change around critical issues such as poverty reduction, educational achievement, and homelessness.
This presentation will include a review of the evolution of Collective Impact framework from its inception in 2011 to Collective Impact 3.0. The CI framework distills some of the key ingredients of successful community efforts to move “from fragmented action and results” to “collective action and deep and durable impact,” and shifts focusing from programs to policy and systems change outcomes. This work puts community at the center of the change process; Authentic and inclusive community engagement is, without a doubt, a condition for transformational impact and therefore a condition for CI 3.0.
Sylvia will also share the five interconnected practices around community change and dive into the evolution of Collective Impact towards movement-building, instilling equity in the work, ensuring authentic community engagement, and developing shared community aspirations. Numerous resources will be shared to help you learn how to implement Collective Impact in your community-change work and collaborations, and an opportunity for questions will be provided.
Brief History of Collective Impact: In 2011, John Kania and Mark Kramer of FSG published a ground-breaking article in the Stanford Social Innovation Review called Collective Impact, proposing a new framework for communities seeking to move the needle on complex issues like homelessness, educational achievement, and poverty reduction. In 2016, Mark Cabaj and Liz Weaver added their perspectives and lessons learned from nearly 10 years of place-based poverty reduction efforts across Canada by publishing Collective Impact 3.0. Collective Impact 3.0 improves upon the initial CI framework, asking us to think about systems change as a movement building strategy. CI 3.0 has woven proven observations and strategies from other community change approaches to increase effectiveness of implementation. Collective Impact is viewed by many as the melding of community engagement and collective impact practices and is now a permanent –even dominant – part of the landscape of community change.