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

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The Learning Agenda

This is a workshop designed to inspire and rejuvenate. Tamarack wants to revive your hope in the power of engagement and eliminate the "cynic" that has emerged in so many of us. 

As practitioners, we are all intensely interested in the "how" of this work. The workshop is designed for hands-on, experiential learning, story-telling, practice and application. Bring your smart phones and computer - you'll do more than follow a hashtag. Try out new technological tools, apply a proven engagement technique, and practice what you're learning as you're learning it. 

What You'll Learn

• Cutting edge technologies to make your engagement work easier and more effective
• The latest in interviewing, facilitation and dialogue techniques
• The essential framework for engagement to advance your collective impact work
• Hands-on, interactive practice of engagement techniques and technology
• Theoretical frameworks for engagement, systems change and movement building
• Practical examples and in-depth case studies from municipalities, community organizations, provincial (state) government and corporations

Register for Community Engagement

Measuring Outcomes

A unique feature of the Community Engagement the Next Generation three day workshop is the emphasis on measuring community engagement outcomes. You will learn:

• Three ways to measure outcomes in community change
• Techniques to analyze and make sense of loads of data
• How dashboards can give you real time feedback
• How to use tools like Google analytics to simplify your analysis
• How to write an engagement strategy with clear deliverables and outcomes
• How to create an effective return on investment report
• Examples from real people who have measured engagement outcomes 

How Do We Learn Together?

In addition to hands on learning there will be plenty of time to interact with other learners, faculty and practitioners. Everyone will be assigned to a small group learning lab that will provide you an opportunity to hear each other’s stories and dig deeper into the content.

During your time together you will be invited to help create a powerful and dynamic learning community dedicated to strengthening our individual and collective capacity to connect, engage and mobilize citizens, funders and policy-makers.  As a member of this learning community you will gain new insights and be part of shaping new knowledge to move your community towards a deeper commitment to realizing collective impact.

SOURCE: The Tamarack Institute

1:30 PM - 2:45 PM Eastern Time

Hear from two non-profit organizations enabling housing stability by empowering those living on low-incomes to build savings and financial capacity through supportive programs and services:

SEED Winnipeg will provide an overview of how their financial empowerment programs have supported access to stable and affordable housing.  SEED’s presentation will highlight their Inner City Homebuyer IDA Program, which provides financial literacy education as well as down paymentand closing cost assistance to low-income families through a 1:1 savings-matching program.

Boston, MA based Compass Working Capital will also be on hand to discuss their Family Self-Sufficiency Program, the first public-private partnership of its kind in the U.S. offering a scalable housing-based model that helps residents of federally subsidized housing to build financial security and reduce reliance on public assistance.

Don’t miss this webinar exploring various program models, partnerships and approaches to reaching those who are the most financially excluded. Through insights into SEED Winnipeg and Compass Working Capital’s individualized financial training tools and savings programs, you will learn more about how asset management is one of the key pillars to building results based pathways out of poverty.

Register for Enabling Housing Stability Through Asset Building

SPEAKERS:

Louise Simbandumwe, Director of Asset Building Programs, SEED Winnipeg (MB)

Sherry Riva, Founder and Executive Director, Compass Working Capital, Boston, MA (USA)

SOURCE: Canadian Housing & Renewal Association