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Collective Impact-Building More Effective Partnerships

Amanda Mancuso, MPHStrategy Management & Collective Impact ConsultantInsightformation

Public Health Challenges Systems Work Collaboration vs. Cooperation Collective Impact Systems Leadership

Agenda

Complex Problems

obesity

climate change poverty

Health System: is the organization or people, institutions, and resources that deliver health care to meet the health needs of a target population.

Food System: all the processes and infrastructure involved in feeding the population.

School System:

Systems Work

Community Health as a System

PHAB Standard 4.1: “Engage with the Public Health System and the Community in Identifying and Addressing Health Problems through Collaborative Processes”

RWJF Healthy Communities Challenge:“To support and leverage investments, resources, and the influence of others in the philanthropic, public, and private sectors to build durable, cross-sector connections between health and community development that will result in expanded opportunities for low-income people.”

Emphasis on Collaboration

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working on independent yet common goals (think drum circle)

Spontaneous participation that fuels peer-to-peer systems (you help me and I will help you)

Distributed networks support both individuals and the group

Collaboration People work together

on a common goal (think orchestra)

Working together to create consensus to build systems of increasing complexity

Tends to adopt joint identity

Cooperation vs. Collaboration

Shared Goal

Shared Strategy

“the commitment of a group of important actors from different sectors to a common agenda for solving a specific social problem”

5 Conditions for Collective Impact

Isolated Impact vs. Collective Impact

5 Conditions of Collective Impact

Changing How We Work Together

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Funders select individual grantees that offer the most promising solutions.

Collective Impact

Funders and implementers understand that social problems, and their solutions, arise from the interaction of many organizations from a larger system.

Shifting Funding Practices

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Nonprofits work separately and compete to produce the greatest independent impact.

Collective Impact

Organizations actively coordinate their action and share lessons learned.

Shifting Non-Profit Behaviors

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Evaluation tries to isolate a organization’s particular impact.

Collective Impact

Progress depends on working on the same goal and measuring the same things.

Shifting Evaluation Mindset

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Large scale change is dependent on scaling a single organization.

Collective Impact

Large scale change depends on increasing cross-sector alignment and learning among many organizations.

A Different Approach to Achieving Scale

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Corporate and government sponsors are often disconnected from foundations and nonprofits.

Collective Impact

Corporate and government sectors are essential partners.

Improved Government – Corporate Collaboration

Coined in the article “The Dawn of Systems Leadership”http://www.ssireview.org/articles/entry/the_dawn_of_system_leadership Three conditions:1. Ability to see the larger system2. Fostering reflection and more generative conversations3. Shifting from reactive problem solving to co-creating the

future Characteristics:EmpathyDeep ListeningOpennessSuccess is dependent upon the success of the system

Systems Leadership

Amanda Mancuso, Consultantamanda.mancuso@insightformation.com

Bill Barberg, President & CEObill.barberg@insightformation.com

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