Welcome to the second edition of my Community Change Institute blogging series, where each week, I feature a new inspirational group who will be joining us at the upcoming Community Change Institute (CCI) this September 26-30, 2016.
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Graduation Matters Montana (GMM) was fortunate to have Liz Weaver of Tamarack Institute deliver the keynote address at our June 2016 Summer Summit. Liz shared the findings of her recent paper, “Transformational Change is Possible”. Much of her analysis aligns with the GMM framework, and I was pleased that Summit participants connected with her presentation.
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Last week, Tamarack’s Liz Weaver and Paul Born hosted a webinar on Community Change: The Art of Disruption as part of a Community Change Webinar Series. In this conversation Liz and Paul discussed some emerging ideas and strategies that are disrupting how some communities today are responding to the complex issues that they face.
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Saint John, New Brunswick is one of Vibrant Communities’ 13 original trail builder communities. They were among the first members to undertake the Vibrant Communities framework, establish a multi-sectoral collaboration, and work towards a set goal of poverty reduction.
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By now readers of my blog know that I am all about collective impact. It is a framework that I believe has real merit, under the right circumstances and with the right outcome in mind. But gosh, it is hard work and even though we have alot of experience in collaboration, we do not have the collective impact muscle fully developed yet.
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Knowledge of the three pre-conditions and five conditions of Collective Impact has grown exponentially since the original articles on this topic were first published by John Kania and Mark Kramer in the Winter of 2011. Since then, a growing field of practice in Collective Impact has been developing. Practitioners working in a diversity of fields are sharing insights and knowledge that they have gained as they work to translate Collective Impact into action across a range of issues and within a diverse array of communities and regions.
As a sure sign of the maturity of the field, the Collective Impact Forum and their co-catalyst partners, of which Tamarack is one, recently released these Principles of Practice. In a recent blog unveiling these principles of practice, The CI Forum's Jennifer Splansky-Juster wrote, "while the five conditions Kania and Kramer initially identified are necessary, they are not sufficient to achieve impact at the population level. Informed by lessons shared among those who are implementing the approach in the field, this post outlines additional principles of practice that we believe can guide practitioners to successfully put collective impact into action. While many of these principles are not unique to collective impact, we have seen that the combination of the five conditions and these practices contributes to meaningful population-level change."
