Initiatives

SAMPLE INITIATIVE - Collective Impact Forum

Announcement

You can use this space to announce news, upcoming events, and other items you would like to highlight.

For instance, the Collective Impact Forum has now reached 14,000 members! Thank you to all for supporting this growing community!

Paul Schmitz

Collective Impact Forum

Role: Backbone

Robert Albright

Collective Impact Forum

Role: Backbone

John Kania

FSG

Role: Backbone

Kar-Yee Lim

Government Agency, Singapore

Role: Advisor, Backbone, Steering Committee

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About this Initiative

Location:

United States of America (the), Far West (AK, CA, HI, NV, OR, WA)

Year Started:

2013

Initiative stage:

Organizing for Impact

Initiative Purpose and Goals:

Learn how to create a page to highlight the work you are doing within your collective impact initiative. Here, you can share about your progress, hold discussions about your programs, and share reports, photos, news and more.

For this specific section, you can share about your initiative's overall purpose and goal. You can also share about the population-level results that your initiative is working to achieve.

Down below, you'll see areas related to your collective impact initiative, from backbone structure to shared measurement to community engagement. Click on each heading to view the information listed for each section.

Initiative website:

http://collectiveimpactforum.org/

Collective Impact Elements in Place

Common Agenda

Continuous Communication

Shared Measurement

Backbone Support

Mutually Reinforcing Activities

Backbone Support

Organizations serving in the Backbone Role

The backbone role can range depending on the need and capacity of each collective impact initiative. In this section, you can share about what organizations play the role of the backbone for your CI initiative.

Backbone structure

Backbone support can be structured in different ways, depending on the initiative. In this section, you can share about what your backbone structure looks like. (e.g., Your backbone is a separate organization, is under the umbrella of another organization, is situated inside a funder, etc.)

Measures of Success

In this section, you can discuss about some of the shared measures your collective impact initiative has agreed upon to assess progress towards your overall goal.

For example, you can share about the shared measures you are tracking to assess:

How your end-beneficiaries are affected - What measures do you prioritize to help show how their lives are improving?
How your programs are doing - Are there shared measures that you like to use to show progress with your programs?
How your systems are changing - Are there system-level measures that your initiative is tracking?

Initiative Activities and Milestones

Activities

In this section, you can share about what projects, activities, and/strategies your initiative is doing to help reach its desired goals. For instance, starting school lunch programs, increasing business partnerships with workforce programs, and encouraging local or state policy changes.

Milestones

In this section, you can share about what milestones your initiative has achieved so far. What would you like to share?

Community Engagement and Advancing Equity

Community Engagement Activities

In this section, you can share about how your initiative is engaging the communities most affected and connected to its mission and goals. (For instance, holding community meetings, including community members to participate in the initiative's governance, establishing and using feedback loops with the community, etc.)

Activities to Advance Equity

In this section, you can share about how your initiative addresses issues of equity within its mission and activities. (For instance, gathering and diisaggregating data to better understand which communities are being left behind, building an inclusive governance with a diverse set of stakeholders, holding trainings on cultural competency for your board and steering committees, etc.)

Initiative Partners and Governance

Contributing organizations

What other organizations are contributing to this effort? In this section, you can share about your contributing organizations, such as partnering organizations, funder partners, and public-sector agencies that you work with. If you happen to have many partners, feel free to include a link to a website that might have them all listed.

Sectors Engaged

Nonprofit

Philanthropic Funders

Public Sector

Business Sector

Broader Community/People with Lived Experience

Initiative governance

In this section, you can share about your initiative governance and how it is structured. e.g., Are there steering committees in place, working groups, or other advisory groups?

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Discussions

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How do you like the initiative pages? By tracy.timmons-gray 3 years 3 months ago	0	3 years 3 months ago
Sample Discussion Thread - You can hold discussions about your CI initiative By tracy.timmons-gray 3 years 3 months ago	1	3 years 3 months ago

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