--- title: The Latest | Deb Halliday description: Community builder, master facilitator; engaged in education, social welfare policy; lover of underdogs and innovators. Visit me at debhalliday.com or @deb_halliday. --- [![20yrLogo-2_WhiteOrange](https://www.tamarackcommunity.ca/hs-fs/hubfs/Administration/Tamarack%20Logos/20yrLogo-2_WhiteOrange.png?width=200&height=47&name=20yrLogo-2_WhiteOrange.png "20yrLogo-2_WhiteOrange")](https://www.tamarackcommunity.ca/?hsLang=en-us) # The Latest Contribute. We love to hear your thoughts, your musings and your latest work. Please share with us! [![Write a post](https://no-cache.hubspot.com/cta/default/316071/33819a55-1164-4664-8ab0-c9fe2f42d6f1.png)](https://cta-redirect.hubspot.com/cta/redirect/316071/33819a55-1164-4664-8ab0-c9fe2f42d6f1) #### Subscribe. Be in the know. Get the latest updates about community change and building vibrant communities. 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Visit me at debhalliday.com or @deb_halliday. ### Recent Posts [![](https://www.tamarackcommunity.ca/hubfs/VC/Images/welcome-1.jpg) ](https://www.tamarackcommunity.ca/latest/welcome-to-the-party?hsLang=en-us) ### [Welcome to the Party! How to Onboard New Collaborative Partners](https://www.tamarackcommunity.ca/latest/welcome-to-the-party?hsLang=en-us) Posted by [Deb Halliday](https://www.tamarackcommunity.ca/latest/author/deb-halliday) on October 7, 2019 *This blog was originally published by the [Collective Impact Forum](http://collectiveimpactforum.org).* If collective impact efforts have any certainties, one surely is the ever-revolving (one might hope ever-evolving) door of community partners coming to the table. Our efforts for inclusivity, the reality that multi-sector coalitions invite instability as people leave jobs and new people come in: it’s inevitable that we will be regularly onboarding new partners. How do we invite in new faces without disrupting the focus and momentum of the team? I’m often asked this as I coach collective impact efforts. Here are a few strategies that seem to work. [Read More](https://www.tamarackcommunity.ca/latest/welcome-to-the-party?hsLang=en-us) [![](https://www.tamarackcommunity.ca/hubfs/Photos/Image%20Library/girl%20staring%20into%20sunlight%20cave.jpg) ](https://www.tamarackcommunity.ca/latest/feeding-the-light?hsLang=en-us) ### [Feeding the Light](https://www.tamarackcommunity.ca/latest/feeding-the-light?hsLang=en-us) Posted by [Deb Halliday](https://www.tamarackcommunity.ca/latest/author/deb-halliday) on May 25, 2018 My teen daughter is going through the anxieties and insecurities we all remember from those coming-of-age years. Adding to the stresses of her life are the much-noted amplifying effects of modern living: social media, 24-hour news cycles and the dehumanizing pace of an unbalanced world. [Read More](https://www.tamarackcommunity.ca/latest/feeding-the-light?hsLang=en-us) [![](https://www.tamarackcommunity.ca/hubfs/Stock%20images/Businesswoman%20hiding%20her%20face%20with%20sheet%20of%20paper%20with%20sketches%20at%20background.jpeg) ](https://www.tamarackcommunity.ca/latest/collaborative-frameworks?hsLang=en-us) ### [Collaborative Frameworks](https://www.tamarackcommunity.ca/latest/collaborative-frameworks?hsLang=en-us) Posted by [Deb Halliday](https://www.tamarackcommunity.ca/latest/author/deb-halliday) on October 26, 2017 Earlier this month I participated in a workshop on collaboration at a gathering of several hundred grantmakers, hosted by [Philanthropy Northwest](https://philanthropynw.org/). During the session, *Collaborative Exchange*, I presented on Graduation Matters Montana, a public-private initiative that resulted in record-breaking high school graduation rates. As I was preparing for the session, I was reminded of a [Tamarack Institute](https://www.tamarackcommunity.ca/?hsLang=en-us) talk in which [Liz Weaver](https://www.tamarackcommunity.ca/latest/author/liz-weaver) and [Mark Cabaj](https://www.tamarackcommunity.ca/library/author/mark-cabaj?hsLang=en-us) described what effective change efforts have in common. There are three things, they posited: (1) a framework; (2) principles; and (3) practices. How, I wondered, could I describe our work raising graduation rates, based on Weaver and Cabaj’s insights? [Read More](https://www.tamarackcommunity.ca/latest/collaborative-frameworks?hsLang=en-us) [![](https://www.tamarackcommunity.ca/hubfs/Photos/Image%20Library/clothes%20line%20laundry.jpg) ](https://www.tamarackcommunity.ca/latest/after-the-ecstasy-the-laundry?hsLang=en-us) ### [After the Ecstasy, The Laundry](https://www.tamarackcommunity.ca/latest/after-the-ecstasy-the-laundry?hsLang=en-us) Posted by [Deb Halliday](https://www.tamarackcommunity.ca/latest/author/deb-halliday) on June 1, 2017 I recently attended an extraordinary conference hosted by the [Tamarack Institute](https://www.tamarackcommunity.ca/?hsLang=en-us). I met wonderful, warm and interesting people, the workshops I gave were well-received, and to top it off, my mother came to see me present and she was very proud of me. Really: I couldn’t imagine a better work week. [Read More](https://www.tamarackcommunity.ca/latest/after-the-ecstasy-the-laundry?hsLang=en-us) [![](https://www.tamarackcommunity.ca/hubfs/hand%20ball%20data%20numbers.jpg) ](https://www.tamarackcommunity.ca/latest/data-is-more-than-just-a-four-letter-word?hsLang=en-us) ### [Data is More Than Just a Four-Letter Word](https://www.tamarackcommunity.ca/latest/data-is-more-than-just-a-four-letter-word?hsLang=en-us) Posted by [Deb Halliday](https://www.tamarackcommunity.ca/latest/author/deb-halliday) on May 2, 2017 I recently spoke with a very experienced, very frustrated community organizer. She had just come back from a meeting with a funder who repeatedly admonished her to provide measurable evidence that her project is making a difference.  [Read More](https://www.tamarackcommunity.ca/latest/data-is-more-than-just-a-four-letter-word?hsLang=en-us) [![](https://www.tamarackcommunity.ca/hs-fs/file-2319195590-jpg/Events/CCI/CCI_2013/Images/2013_CCI_Stones_Trust.jpg) ](https://www.tamarackcommunity.ca/latest/building-trust-for-collaboration?hsLang=en-us) ### [Building Trust for Collaboration](https://www.tamarackcommunity.ca/latest/building-trust-for-collaboration?hsLang=en-us) Posted by [Deb Halliday](https://www.tamarackcommunity.ca/latest/author/deb-halliday) on April 21, 2017 “Do you trust me?” Jack asks Rose in the movie, Titanic.  Jack is holding Rose by the waist so she can lean over the bow of a massive ship to experience what it might feel like to fly. Had Rose replied “No,” or had Jack been untrustworthy, the movie would’ve ended there. 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