Working Your Assets Off Prosper Waco Initiative Working Your Assets Off MI 2017 Conference November 10, 2017

Presentation Overview Overview of the Prosper Waco initiative Deep dive into three financial security efforts using Scorecard Highlight additional cross-sector efforts I will make this slide more graphically pleasing PROSPER WACO

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What Is the Prosper Waco initiative? A collective impact initiative that convenes cross-sector partners to identify and implement strategic efforts to measurably improve the education, health and financial security of people in the Waco community. PROSPER WACO

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Overall Education Goal The Greater Waco community will build an environment that promotes lifelong educational attainment for all residents beginning at birth. I will make this slide more graphically pleasing PROSPER WACO

Overall Education Goal I will make this slide more graphically pleasing PROSPER WACO

Overall Health Goal McLennan County will reach the top quartile (60th or better) of Texas Counties in Quality of Life—currently 141st – and Health Behaviors– currently 209th – in Robert Wood Johnson Foundation County Health Rankings by 2020. PROSPER WACO

Overall Health Goal PROSPER WACO

Overall Financial Security Goal At least 55% of Waco residents will live with income above 200% of the Federal Poverty Level ($48,600 for a family of four) by 2020. PROSPER WACO

Overall Financial Security Goal PROSPER WACO

How Does Collective Impact Work? Partners agree on goals that can be measured Partners use the goals to guide their own work Partners work together to make things happen they couldn’t do on their own A “backbone” facilitates and measures success MP - do you want to talk about the structure of the backbone? PROSPER WACO

Building A Culture Focused On Results Training and support for nonprofit organizations to understand how to manage to outcomes and how data can be used to drive decisions Facilitating collaborative data-driven approaches (e.g., School Readiness Initiative, Community Health Needs Assessment) Responsible for monitoring a wide range of community indicators related to education, health and financial security and making them accessible to the community Data Dashboard PROSPER WACO

Elements of CI Elements of RBA Common Agenda Working toward common results and indicators Shared Measurement How much? How well? Is anyone better off? need to add in animation, each group will appear by itself Mutually reinforcing activities/aligned contributions A coordinated, systematic way of thinking PROSPER WACO

Turn The Curve on Financial Assets

Cross-Sector Efforts

Community Health Worker

Partners involved: Waco-McLennan County Public Health District, Providence Healthcare Network, Baylor Scott & White Medical Center-Hillcrest, Episcopal Health Foundation Action Plan: complete training; move to implementation phase; refine referral system; begin tracking impact PROSPER WACO

Community- Centered Health Home

Partners involved: Family Health Center, Baylor University, World Hunger Relief, Greater Waco Legal Services, Episcopal Health Foundation Action Plan: Physician council designed to identify opportunities for involvement in the initiative; medical-legal partnership will begin patient survey needs in early 2018 PROSPER WACO

Project Link

Partners involved: Waco ISD, La Vega ISD, MCC, TSTC, Rapoport Foundation Action Plan: college persistence and completion; coordinating with other college access programs in the community PROSPER WACO

Takeaways Framework eases fear of sharing data Provides clear framework for partners to move from talk to action quickly Allows for organizations to use the same lingo PROSPER WACO

Contact Information Matthew Polk, PhD, MBA Executive Director matthew@prosperwaco.org Brittany Fitz-Chapman, PhD Dir. of Data & Research brittany@prosperwaco.org PROSPER WACO

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