8:30AM - 4:00PM

Advance your community's agenda with tools and techniques that move beyond impact

Join internationally recognized trainer and community builder Liz Weaver for a workshop that dives into the collective impact approach and how it 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 toward impact
• Embrace the power of citizen engagement and collective impact

This workshop is for those who:

• Desire new ways to lead, engage and transform your community
• Want to learn about collective impact and how to manage or work within a collaborative team
• Work on issues such as community engagement, health and well-being, poverty reduction, local government, community sustainability, neighbourhood renewal, crime prevention, youth development, citizen engagement, local food systems and other collaborative ideas.
• Are contemplating the start-up or renewal of a collaborative initiative
• Are a key supporter of community engagement and collaboration including NGOs, businesses; funders and national, provincial or local government

Register for Accelerating Community Change with Collective Impact

Why the Collective Impact Approach?

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. In 2011, John Kania and Mark Kramer of FSG Social Impact Consultants wrote an article, Collective Impact, that changed how we look at collaboration. Collective impact provides a framework for multi-sector community-based roundtables to re-consider how community change should occur and what impact these efforts should have. This workshop will explore the application of the three pre-conditions of collective impact and the five conditions for community change efforts.

Keynote speaker and workshop facilitator, Liz Weaver, will provide exciting tips to help your collaborative table explore the concepts of community change and collective impact as we address complex issues. Liz will lead the group through the key questions collaborative tables need to consider before applying the collective impact framework and share with the group examples, tools and resources they can use to scale up their collaborative community change efforts. She will also lead us in conversations about the new forms of collaborative leadership required for community change today.

Throughout the day, you will explore the key concepts of collective impact, spend time in dialogue and work through tools and resources that will help you increase your collaborative's effectiveness. You will also have an opportunity to connect and exchange with each other during the workshop.

"Subsequent to 8 community members attending Collective Impact training, an amazing shift has occurred in our community. We now have a basis of understanding with a common language for moving forward on complex issues that no one single entity can solve in isolation. More importantly, a positive attitude with sincere enthusiasm to collaborate cross-sector has emerged!"  - Nora Smith, Delburne, Alberta