Collective Impact Tools

Each chapter's primary tools are fundamental resources designed to help grow a more complete understanding of each stage of Collective Impact. Start your journey in this chapter by reviewing each of the primary tools. Once this is complete, you can move on to the secondary and diving deeper into resources to help gain a better grasp of specific elements that have been introduced.

Primary

• TOOL | Assessing Community Context
  Assess the current realities of your community in order to develop a robust Collective Impact Implementation plan
• TOOL | Top 100 Engagement
  Engage participants in a brainstorm and prioritize influential leaders who you can engage in your Collective Impact effort
  
• TOOL | Community Reference System 
  Ideally suited for identifying, and justifying, who to invite to a gathering when numbers are limited.
  
• TOOL| Defining your Issue
  Invites your collective to define your issue and its intended impact in as concrete a way as possible
• TOOL| The Empathy Map
  Useful to encourage participants to consider the perspectives of other key stakeholders and/or recipients of the initiative.
• TOOL| The Assessing Readiness for Collective Impact
  Used to ask useful questions to help assess the degree of consensus regarding the adoption of Collective Impact as an approach for addressing your issue
• TOOL | Assessing Collective Impact Resources
  Offers a guide to identify and record the full scope of resources available to be mobilized in support of your Collective Impact effort and also assess and identify resource gaps
• TOOL | Mapping Collective Impact Roles
  Used to identify and map the individuals engaged in your Collective Impact effort, the roles that each plays and also identify recruitment needs
• TOOL | Establishing Values and Principles for Working Together
   Understand the importance of values and principles for collaborative efforts
• TOOL | Stakeholder Engagement Wheel
  Help guide a conversation with others as to what their desired level of involvement is in the opportunities and work of your group going forward

Secondary

• TOOL | Gives and Gets
  Help your team understand and agree upon what we want to achieve together
• TOOL | Practices for Effective Dialogue
  Guidelines to assist your group in having effective dialogue
• TOOL | Collaboration Spectrum
  Help your collective work together across multiple sectors

Deeper Dive

• TOOL | Top 100 Partners
  Use this Tool to develop a strategy to identify and build strategic relationships in your work.
• PAPER | The Promise and Peril of Collective Impact
  Detailed analysis from an implementation perspective of Tamarack, a backbone organization
• ARTICLE | Building Organizational Readiness for Collective Impact
  For leaders who are considering whether or not to start – or join – a Collective Impact initiative
• TOOL | Compendium of Collective Impact Resources Part Three: Building Community
  Understand what pre-conditions and other considerations will be valuable in developing an effective and community-focused approach
• TOOL | Compendium of Collective Impact Resources Part Six: Engaging Stakeholders to Build Movements for Change
  A curated a list of papers, tools and resources which focus on the practice of effective community engagement