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Making Meaningful Community Change

Making Meaningful Community Change. A Successful Network. A Stalled Plan. Where do we go from here?. Convening and engaging leadership. Providing broad regional focus. Meaningful programs Example: Secure Jobs Connect. Perceived failure: Homelessness is worse than ever.

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Making Meaningful Community Change

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  1. Making Meaningful Community Change

  2. A Successful Network. A Stalled Plan.Where do we go from here?

  3. Convening and engaging leadership

  4. Providing broad regional focus

  5. Meaningful programsExample: Secure Jobs Connect

  6. Perceived failure: Homelessness is worse than ever

  7. Numbers without context

  8. Question:How does a Network to End Homelessness achieve (and document) success in the context of homelessness as a persistent societal issue?

  9. Question:What is our role going forward and how will we define success?

  10. In progress:A small working group outlininga next-stage role that is different from but supportive of the CoCs and providers

  11. Defining our Unique Role

  12. Current exploration:National models emerging for community organizations seeking to become Agents of Change

  13. A Theory of Change • “… is the product of a series of critical-thinking exercises that provides a comprehensive picture of the early- and intermediate-term changes in a given community that are needed to reach a long-term goal articulated by the community.” Andrea Anderson, “An Introduction to Theory of Change,” the evaluation exchange, Harvard Family Research Project, Harvard Graduate School of Education

  14. *Adapted from www.theoryofchange.org (emphasis added)

  15. “The first step is for stakeholders to be clear about what they want to produce through their initiative. We find group members often have very different ideas about what they are working toward.” Theory of Change, the evaluation exchange, Harvard Family Research Project, Harvard Graduate School of Education

  16. Leadership Expectations* *From retreat “highest and best function” exercise

  17. Leadership Expectations* *From retreat “highest and best function” exercise

  18. Leadership Expectations* *From retreat “highest and best function” exercise

  19. Key questions:1. Which factors affecting homelessness can we truly impact? • That are supportive to the efforts of CoCs and providers • But not a duplication of their efforts

  20. 2. What is the actual work—and work plan—for the Network?

  21. Key Roles

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  24. Key Roles

  25. Potential Staffing Implications

  26. Next Step: Select key areas of concentration

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