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Collective Impact
October 24, 2012
Boston | Geneva | Mumbai | San Francisco | Seattle | Washington FSG.ORG
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Juvenile Justice in New YorkJuvenile Justice in New York
$286,000 89% recidivism rate=
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Today’s TalkToday s Talk
C t d El t f C ll ti I tConcepts and Elements of Collective Impact
Collective Impact ExamplesCollective Impact Examples
How CI applies to their work
Questions and Answers
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FSG Overview
• Nonprofit consulting firm specializing in strategy, evaluation and research with offices in Boston, Seattle, San Francisco DC Geneva and MumbaiSan Francisco, DC, Geneva, and Mumbai
• Partner with foundations, nonprofits, governments, and corporations to develop more effective solutions to the p pworld’s most challenging issues
• Recognized thought leader in social impact, hil th d t i l ibilitphilanthropy and corporate social responsibility
• Staff of 100 full-time professionals with passion and experience to solve social problemsexperience to solve social problems
• Advancing Collective Impact via publications, conferences, speaking engagements, client projects
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FSG is Playing a Leadership Role in Accelerating Disciplined Collective Approaches to Solving Large Scale Social ProblemsCollective Approaches to Solving Large-Scale Social Problems
• Client work in Collective Impact: FSG understands how to enable and sustain cross sector partnerships through our workenable and sustain cross-sector partnerships through our work with clients in the following sectors:
Economic developmentEducation reformEnvironmental sustainabilityJuvenile justiceTeen substance abuse
• FSG articles paved the way for Collective Impact:Leading Boldly (2004)Breakthroughs in Shared Measurement (2008)Catalytic Philanthropy (2009)Catalytic Philanthropy (2009)Collective Impact (2011)Channeling Change: Making Collective Impact Work (2012)
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There Are Several Types of Problems
Simple Complicated Complex
Baking a Cake Sending a Rocket to the Moon
Raising a Childto t e oo
Social sector treats problems as simple or
7© 2012 FSGSource: Adapted from “Getting to Maybe”
complicated
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Traditional Approaches Are Not Solving Our Of C CToughest – Often Complex – Challenges
F d l t i di id l t• Funders select individual grantees • Organizations work separately and
compete Isolatedcompete• Evaluation attempts to isolate a
particular organization’s impact
IsolatedImpact
• Large scale change is assumed to depend on scaling organizations
• Corporate and government sectors are often disconnected from foundations and nonprofits
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foundations and nonprofits
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Imagine a Different Approach – Multiple Players Working Together to Solve Complex Issues
• All working toward the same goal and measuring the same things
• Cross-sector alignment with government, nonprofit, philanthropic and corporate sectors as partnersphilanthropic and corporate sectors as partners
• Organizations actively coordinating their action and sharing lessons learnedsharing lessons learned
Isolated Impact Collective Impact
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Collective Impact Is a Unique and Differentiated Approach to Bringing Actors Across Sectors Together to Work Toward a Common Agenda
Type of Collaboration DefinitionCollaboration
Collective Impact Initiatives
Long-term commitments by a group of important actors fromdifferent sectors to a common agenda for solving a specificsocial problem
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pact
Funder Collaboratives
Groups of funders interested in supporting the same issuewho pool their resources
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Public-Private Partnerships
Partnerships formed between government and private sectororganizations to deliver specific services or benefits
Multi-Stakeholder Voluntary activities by stakeholders from different sectorsElem
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Initiatives around a common theme
Social Sector Networks
Groups of individuals or organizations fluidly connectedthrough purposeful relationships, whether formal or informal
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It is distinct from other forms of collaboration
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Achieving Large-Scale Change through CCollective Impact Involves Five Key Elements
Common Agenda1 Common Agenda
Shared Measurement
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2 Shared Measurement
Mutually Reinforcing Activities
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Continuous Communication4
Backbone Support 5
11© 2012 FSGSource: Channeling Change: Making Collective Impact Work, 2012; FSG Interviews and Analysis
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Strive: Common AgendaStrive: Common Agenda
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Strive: Shared MeasurementStrive: Shared Measurement
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The Collective Impact Approach Can Be Applied t M C l S i l Ito Many Complex Social Issues
Education Healthcare HomelessnessEducation Healthcare Homelessness
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Economic DevelopmentYouth Development Community Development
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How Do You Know If You Are R d f C ll ti I t?Ready for Collective Impact?
Influential Champion• Commands respect and engages cross-sector
leaders• Focused on solving problem but allows
ti i t t fi t f th l
Financial Resources
$participants to figure out answers for themselves
• Committed funding partners
Urgency for Change
$ Committed funding partners• Sustained funding for at least 2-3 years• Pays for needed infrastructure and planning
Urgency for Change• Critical problem in the community• Frustration with existing approaches• Multiple actors calling for change
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• Multiple actors calling for change• Engaged funders and policy makers
Source: Channeling Change: Making Collective Impact Work, 2012; FSG Interviews
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DiscussionDiscussion
1. What resonated most about collective impact? How can you apply this approach to advance your current collaborative work?
2. Which of the collective impact elements could be strengthened in your collaborative work?strengthened in your collaborative work?
3. What are key next steps you will take? What support d d?do you need?
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Collective Impact Efforts Tend to Develop over Th K Ph
Components for Success
Three Key PhasesPhase II
Organize for ImpactPhase III
Sustain Action & ImpactPhase I
Initiate Action
Develop group, structure
communication and
Create infrastructure (backbone and
processes)Facilitate and refine
for Success
Governance &Infrastructure
S & p
decision making
Map the landscape and use data to make
processes)
Create common agenda (goals, strategy)
Support implementation (alignment to goal and
t t i )
Strategic Planning case
Facilitate community outreach
(goals, strategy)
Engage community and build public will
strategies)
Continue engagement, conduct advocacy
Planning
Community Involvement outreach
Analyze baseline data to ID key issues and
build public will
Establish shared metrics (indicators, measurement,
conduct advocacy
Collect, track, report progress (process to
Involvement
Evaluation &Improvement
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gaps and approach) learn and improve)Improvement
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Timing for Each Phase Varies by Collective Impact InitiativeImpact Initiative
Initiative Phase IIOrganize for Impact
Phase IIISustain Action & Impact
Phase IInitiate Action
May 2010 – Dec 2010(7 months)
Jan 2011 – Dec 2011(12 months) 2012
S & p
Sept 2010 – Feb 2011(5 months)
Feb 2011 – Nov 2011(9 months) Nov 2011
May 2011-Oct 2011(5 months)
Nov 2011 – May 2012(7 months) June 2012
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Working in Collective Impact Requires a S fMindset Shift
Technical Solutions Adaptive SolutionsTechnical Solutions to Problems
Adaptive Solutions to Problems
Silver Bullet Silver Buckshot
Credit Credibility
Competition Coordination
19© 2012 FSGSource: Channeling Change: Making Collective Impact Work, 2012; FSG Interviews and Analysis
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Discussion: Collective Impact and CHPCDiscussion: Collective Impact and CHPC
• How can the Consortium support regional CI efforts?
• How could Collective Impact be useful in sustaining and increasing the impact of the Consortium?
• What are next steps and what role are you willing to play?
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Thank You!Thank You!
Lalitha Vaidyanathan
M i Di t FSGManaging Director, FSG
Collective Impact resources available on www fsg org
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Collective Impact resources available on www.fsg.org