Achieving success is not about wishing for the best future, but being prepared to do the difficult work of getting ready. Ready Set Go: Building Readiness for Collaborative and Community Impact is a brand new paper designed to help community change practitioners set into place all the conditions required to move from idea to execution to impact.
Many of us jump into collaboration without considering the context of the community or the issue that we are hoping to change. We gather around collaborative tables and look to the future, often without considering how to leverage what already exists, how our community might respond and where potential synergies might be which could be the launch pads toward impact.
Ready Set Go is about focusing on building readiness before you launch your collaborative effort. Over the past fifteen years, Tamarack Institute has been working with communities of different sizes and strengths helping the leaders in those communities to move the needle on complex issues.
Communities that move toward success quicker, know how to navigate and balance programmatic and systems change efforts. If you are starting your community change work, or renewing your local change efforts, Ready Set Go will help you move forward with confidence, information and capacity.
Learn More:
- Read the just released paper: Ready, Set Go: Building Readiness for Collaborative and Community Impact
- Watch a webinar recording with Liz Weaver and Robert Albright, Director of Programs at the Collective Impact Forum on Building Readiness through the Collective Impact Feasibility Framework
- Read a blog written by Liz on the topic of readiness - Building Collaborative Readiness: Mapping Community Resources
