BACKGROUND
Increasingly, community organizations are engaging in collaboration as a means to try and solve some of the most complex issues that they face. But these challenging issues require a new approach, a new framework.
Internationally recognized trainer and community builder Liz Weaver provides an overview of collective impact and how this approach can enhance the impact of community change efforts.
- Learn how collaborative tables can organize for change
- Explore how the application of the three preconditions of collective impact and the five conditions for community change can enhance your local efforts
- Advance your community’s agenda with tools and techniques that move towards impact
- Embrace the power of citizen engagement and collective impact
SPEAKER
Liz Weaver is Vice President of Tamarack – An Institute for Community Engagement leads the Vibrant Communities Canada team and provides coaching, leadership and support to community partners and city leaders across Canada. Liz is one of Tamarack’s popular trainers and has developed and delivered curriculum on a variety of workshop topics including collaborative governance, leadership, collective impact, community innovation, influencing policy change and social media for impact and engagement.
Liz was previously the Director for the Hamilton Roundtable on Poverty Reduction. Liz has also held leadership positions with YWCA Hamilton, Volunteer Hamilton and Volunteer Canada.
ADDITIONAL RESOURCES
- Follow Liz's blog
- Regular updates about Collaboration and Collective Impact are posted on Tamarack Learning Communities Sites: www.tamarackcci.ca; www.vibrantcommunities.ca; www.seekingcommunity.ca
- Stanford Social Innovation Review articles on Collective Impact
- FSG Social Impact Consultants
- Collective Impact Forum
- Making Collective Impact Work
- Collective Impact Summit, October 6-10, 2014
- Nonprofit Management: Collective Impact
- Collective Action for Community Development
