Recently, there was a gathering in Toronto focused on how the voluntary or community benefits sector engages with data to advance and even transform community outcomes. This was the second stop on a world tour by the Data on Purpose group from Stanford University.
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As interest in collective impact grows, the question of how this work can look in rural communities continues to arise.
Rural communities face unique challenges when considering collective impact. With sparse organizational infrastructure and minimal philanthropic dollars, rural collective impact practitioners are asking: What does a backbone organization – or even a backbone function – look like when there are few local organizations, and even fewer private or public sector funds available to support the work?
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In a previous blog, I explored the components of trust including Stephen M.R. Covey’s 5 waves of trust from his book The Speed of Trust. This blog will go a little deeper, exploring how to build a personal trust account.
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A Harvard Business Review article describes that to build trust you need to align your interests and motivations with those of the
person you are working with or collaborating with.
A few years ago, John Ott, author of The Power of Collective Wisdom and the Trap of Collective Folly spoke at a Tamarack Community Change Institute and talked about scallops. Now I have not really thought much about scallops since, given that I really don’t like seafood, but John talked about the ‘scallop principle’.
Read MoreI recently attended the Evaluating Community Impact workshop that Tamarack hosted. During one of the presentations I thought to myself this is exactly how I picture community development playing out. A slide came across that read, “community change strategies and interventions tend to evolve through an adaptive cycle with different phases.” Hmmm. An example of an Infinity Loop was shown. Around the loop there were 5 different areas. Exploration, Development, Growth, Maturity and Release.
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