{ Collective Impact- Building More Effective Partnerships Amanda Mancuso, MPH Strategy Management & Collective Impact Consultant Insightformation

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

Complex Problems obesityclimate changepoverty

 Health System:  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

{{ Cooperation  People work together while 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

{{ Isolated Impact  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

{{ Isolated Impact  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

{{ Isolated Impact  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

{{ Isolated Impact  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

{{ Isolated Impact  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”  Three conditions: 1. Ability to see the larger system 2. Fostering reflection and more generative conversations 3. Shifting from reactive problem solving to co-creating the future  Characteristics: Empathy Deep Listening Openness Success is dependent upon the success of the system Systems Leadership

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