Collective Impact

October 24, 2012

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Today’s TalkToday s Talk

C t d El t f C ll ti I tConcepts and Elements of Collective Impact

Collective Impact ExamplesCollective Impact Examples

How CI applies to their work

Questions and Answers

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FSG Overview

• Nonprofit consulting firm specializing in strategy, evaluation and research with offices in Boston, Seattle, San Francisco DC Geneva and MumbaiSan Francisco, DC, Geneva, and Mumbai

• Partner with foundations, nonprofits, governments, and corporations to develop more effective solutions to the p pworld’s most challenging issues

• Recognized thought leader in social impact, hil th d t i l ibilitphilanthropy and corporate social responsibility

• Staff of 100 full-time professionals with passion and experience to solve social problemsexperience to solve social problems

• Advancing Collective Impact via publications, conferences, speaking engagements, client projects

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FSG is Playing a Leadership Role in Accelerating Disciplined Collective Approaches to Solving Large Scale Social ProblemsCollective Approaches to Solving Large-Scale Social Problems

• Client work in Collective Impact: FSG understands how to enable and sustain cross sector partnerships through our workenable and sustain cross-sector partnerships through our work with clients in the following sectors:

Economic developmentEducation reformEnvironmental sustainabilityJuvenile justiceTeen substance abuse

• FSG articles paved the way for Collective Impact:Leading Boldly (2004)Breakthroughs in Shared Measurement (2008)Catalytic Philanthropy (2009)Catalytic Philanthropy (2009)Collective Impact (2011)Channeling Change: Making Collective Impact Work (2012)

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There Are Several Types of Problems

Simple Complicated Complex

Baking a Cake Sending a Rocket to the Moon

Raising a Childto t e oo

Social sector treats problems as simple or

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complicated

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Traditional Approaches Are Not Solving Our Of C CToughest – Often Complex – Challenges

F d l t i di id l t• Funders select individual grantees • Organizations work separately and

compete Isolatedcompete• Evaluation attempts to isolate a

particular organization’s impact

IsolatedImpact

• Large scale change is assumed to depend on scaling organizations

• Corporate and government sectors are often disconnected from foundations and nonprofits

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foundations and nonprofits

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Imagine a Different Approach – Multiple Players Working Together to Solve Complex Issues

• All working toward the same goal and measuring the same things

• Cross-sector alignment with government, nonprofit, philanthropic and corporate sectors as partnersphilanthropic and corporate sectors as partners

• Organizations actively coordinating their action and sharing lessons learnedsharing lessons learned

Isolated Impact Collective Impact

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Collective Impact Is a Unique and Differentiated Approach to Bringing Actors Across Sectors Together to Work Toward a Common Agenda

Type of Collaboration DefinitionCollaboration

Collective Impact Initiatives

Long-term commitments by a group of important actors fromdifferent sectors to a common agenda for solving a specificsocial problem

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Funder Collaboratives

Groups of funders interested in supporting the same issuewho pool their resources

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Public-Private Partnerships

Partnerships formed between government and private sectororganizations to deliver specific services or benefits

Multi-Stakeholder Voluntary activities by stakeholders from different sectorsElem

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Initiatives around a common theme

Social Sector Networks

Groups of individuals or organizations fluidly connectedthrough purposeful relationships, whether formal or informal

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It is distinct from other forms of collaboration

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Achieving Large-Scale Change through CCollective Impact Involves Five Key Elements

Common Agenda1 Common Agenda

Shared Measurement

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Mutually Reinforcing Activities

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Continuous Communication4

Backbone Support 5

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Strive: Common AgendaStrive: Common Agenda

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Strive: Shared MeasurementStrive: Shared Measurement

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The Collective Impact Approach Can Be Applied t M C l S i l Ito Many Complex Social Issues

Education Healthcare HomelessnessEducation Healthcare Homelessness

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Economic DevelopmentYouth Development Community Development

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How Do You Know If You Are R d f C ll ti I t?Ready for Collective Impact?

Influential Champion• Commands respect and engages cross-sector

leaders• Focused on solving problem but allows

ti i t t fi t f th l

Financial Resources

$participants to figure out answers for themselves

• Committed funding partners

Urgency for Change

$ Committed funding partners• Sustained funding for at least 2-3 years• Pays for needed infrastructure and planning

Urgency for Change• Critical problem in the community• Frustration with existing approaches• Multiple actors calling for change

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• Multiple actors calling for change• Engaged funders and policy makers

Source: Channeling Change: Making Collective Impact Work, 2012; FSG Interviews

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DiscussionDiscussion

1. What resonated most about collective impact? How can you apply this approach to advance your current collaborative work?

2. Which of the collective impact elements could be strengthened in your collaborative work?strengthened in your collaborative work?

3. What are key next steps you will take? What support d d?do you need?

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Collective Impact Efforts Tend to Develop over Th K Ph

Components for Success

Three Key PhasesPhase II

Organize for ImpactPhase III

Sustain Action & ImpactPhase I

Initiate Action

Develop group, structure

communication and

Create infrastructure (backbone and

processes)Facilitate and refine

for Success

Governance &Infrastructure

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decision making

Map the landscape and use data to make

processes)

Create common agenda (goals, strategy)

Support implementation (alignment to goal and

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Strategic Planning case

Facilitate community outreach

(goals, strategy)

Engage community and build public will

strategies)

Continue engagement, conduct advocacy

Planning

Community Involvement outreach

Analyze baseline data to ID key issues and

build public will

Establish shared metrics (indicators, measurement,

conduct advocacy

Collect, track, report progress (process to

Involvement

Evaluation &Improvement

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gaps and approach) learn and improve)Improvement

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Timing for Each Phase Varies by Collective Impact InitiativeImpact Initiative

Initiative Phase IIOrganize for Impact

Phase IIISustain Action & Impact

Phase IInitiate Action

May 2010 – Dec 2010(7 months)

Jan 2011 – Dec 2011(12 months) 2012

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Sept 2010 – Feb 2011(5 months)

Feb 2011 – Nov 2011(9 months) Nov 2011

May 2011-Oct 2011(5 months)

Nov 2011 – May 2012(7 months) June 2012

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Working in Collective Impact Requires a S fMindset Shift

Technical Solutions Adaptive SolutionsTechnical Solutions to Problems

Adaptive Solutions to Problems

Silver Bullet Silver Buckshot

Credit Credibility

Competition Coordination

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Discussion: Collective Impact and CHPCDiscussion: Collective Impact and CHPC

• How can the Consortium support regional CI efforts?

• How could Collective Impact be useful in sustaining and increasing the impact of the Consortium?

• What are next steps and what role are you willing to play?

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Thank You!Thank You!

Lalitha Vaidyanathan

M i Di t FSGManaging Director, FSG

lalitha.vaidyanathan@fsg.org

Collective Impact resources available on www fsg org

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Collective Impact resources available on www.fsg.org