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Collective Impact: Creating Large Scale Change Transforming Philanthropy Forum Cartagena, Colombia May, 2011. Media. Students. Philanthropy. Community. Civic. Non-Profit. K-12. Faith. Parents/ Family. Early Childhood. Post Secondary. Corporate.
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Collective Impact:Creating Large Scale ChangeTransforming Philanthropy ForumCartagena, ColombiaMay, 2011
Media Students Philanthropy Community Civic Non-Profit K-12 Faith Parents/ Family Early Childhood Post Secondary Corporate Materials developed by Strive, a subsidiary of KnowledgeWorks. For more information, see www.strivetogether.org
Collective Impact IsolatedImpact Collective Impact When individual organizations demonstrate a successful intervention and then encourage others to replicate When organizations have the vision, leadership and resources to engage the relevant stakeholders in a structured process to address a specific social problem
There Are Five Conditions for Collective Success • Collective Impact Common Agenda Mutually reinforcing activities Shared measurement Continuous communication Backbone organizations
The Collective Impact Approach to Solving Complex Social Issues Is Occurring Across Many Sectors • Collective Impact Education Healthcare Environment Economic Development
Mindset Shifts • Adaptive vs. Technical Solutions • Silver Buckshot vs. Silver Bullets • Credibility vs. Credit • Collective Impact
Why Now? Why Colombia? • An era of scarce resources • Sector lines are blurring • The web is making information sharing free and ubiquitous • Recognition of tremendous inequalities • Collective Impact
What Does it Mean for Funders? • Be bold • Be patient • Be willing to fund the un-sexy • Be leaders • Collective Impact
Collective Impact ‘There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order to things.’ — Niccolo Machiavelli