Champions for Change: Leading a Backbone Organization for Collective Impact
Collective Impact results when actors from different sectors commit to a common agenda for solving a complex social issue. Backbone Organizations play a complex, behind-the-scenes role in the success of these collective impact initiatives. The Backbone Organization's role spans six major activities, requires a diversity of skills and is essential to maintain alignment across the partners. The effectiveness with which a Backbone Organization fulfills its role often determines the success or failure of the Collective Impact Initiative as a whole.
Champions for Change: Leading a Backbone Organization for Collective Impact is a multi-day interactive workshop designed specifically for the leaders of Leadership Roundtables, Coordinating Committees or Backbone Organizations of mature collective impact initiatives. The Tamarack Institute and FSG have partnered to develop this dynamic learning experience to offer leaders of Backbone Organizations an advanced learning opportunity designed exclusively for collaborative leaders.
As a participant you will:
- Strengthen your ability to guide your collective impact initiative toward results;
- Learn from, and build connections with, other experienced leaders of backbone organizations across a range of social issues; and
- Participate in creating new resources and tools for the field of community collaborative and collective impact practitioners, which will be disseminated after the workshop
Workshop sessions will include topics such as:
- Deeply understanding the roles and impact strategies of the backbone organization;
- Developing and learning from shared measurement;
- Community Engagement to build the will of your community;
- Making Collaborative governance effective;
- Sustaining funding for collective impact over the long term;
- Working in complexity and the importance of adaptive leadership; and
- Getting to true impact and systems change
Learn how your team can benefit from this amazing learning opportunity. Special rates are available for teams of three or more who attend together.
March 26
A resilient community or neighbourhood has the capacity to respond and adapt to the social, environmental and economic challenges. Join us online at no cost for this interactive webinar exploring the key characteristics of resilient communities and opportunities and strategies to strengthen resilience at the local level.
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