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EDDIE TAYLOR CEO Northern Santa Barbara County United

#AllIn4CLC Great Things Happen When We Live United

#AllIn4CLC GALVANIZING the entire region around 5 SMART goals & strategies that prepare a highly qualified & literate workforce. A Collective Impact W orkforce A nd L iteracy I nitiative

How can you implement a Collective Impact Model in your community as a Small Cities United Way? Need to better position your organization to enable collective impact and see real, positive change in your community? Think “GALVANIZE”!

GALVANIZE  Gather Like Minds  Approach people you know who are open to big, new ideas  Make sure your “like minds” resonate with the need, the solution, and/or the process

GALVANIZE  ARTICULATE your concept as a solution, aligning it with the need it addresses  Use your “like minds” to help you articulate the concept and the need  Have group identify the people or types of people who should provide leadership for the effort

GALVANIZE  Establish LEADERSHIP  Recruit Leaders suggested by “Like Minds”  Consider a media figure or two for Leadership  Have Leadership and Like Minds jointly develop SMART goals and implementation strategies for the effort

GALVANIZE LEADERS AND LIKE MINDS DEVELOP SMART GOALS Ours are very ambitious! By the end of 2020: Goal #1 Double the number of associate and bachelor degrees awarded from institutions in the region Goal #2 Foster the success of 1,000 adults per year in gaining basic literacy skills (reading with comprehension at the 8th grade level) through education, community or workplace literacy programs.

GALVANIZE Goal #3 Double the number of career technical education (vocational/industrial) certificates awarded by target schools and training institutions Goal #4 Reduce by 50% the percentage of students unable to read at grade level (grades 3 ‐ 11) Goal #5 Increase the number of high-quality preschool and early child care spaces available to working families, in the Northern Santa Barbara County region, by 1,000.

GALVANIZE  Build VISIBILITY through implementation  Leverage constituencies of Like Minds, Leadership Team, elected and influencers to spread the word  Use data to generate interest  Take story to media from various angles  Schedule events featuring your Leaders or including them and their colleagues (e.g. panel discussions)

GALVANIZE  ATTRACT partners and collaborators, funders  Build partnerships with media outlets  Identify/recruit collaborators from event attendees  Seek partner recommendations from Leaders, Like Minds groups  Build on, but expand on the typical UW network

GALVANIZE  NEGOTIATE around obstacles  Funding /Resources  Ownership/ Organizational missions  Egos  Time  History/Legacies  Objectives

GALVANIZE  INTEGRATE objectives with existing community goals and initiatives  Identify any existing efforts aligned with yours, seek integration…  Bring them into the fold!

GALVANIZE  Build ZEAL through collaborative funding opportunities  Identify funding sources appropriate for effort  Build coalition of potential funded partners to carry out different aspects of effort

GALVANIZE  EFFECT CHANGE  Monitor effort to keep partners, Leaders, Like Minds on same page  Continue seeking potential large-scale funders to retain ZEAL  Actively work to reach goals!  Report SUCCESS!

GALVANIZE  G – GATHER like minds  A - ARTICULATE the goals (concept, strategies)  L - establish LEADERSHIP (or identify key LEADERS)  V - build VISIBILITY  A - ATTRACT partners and collaborators  N – NEGOTIATE around obstacles  I - INTEGRATE objectives with existing community goals/initiatives  Z - build ZEAL through successes / collaborative funding opps  E - Effect change

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