Skátne Teionkwaká:nere

“Together, we look ahead”

Collective Impact is a long-term grassroots movement and collaborative community approach toward change.  It requires all of us to have a clear, shared vision of our ideal future as well as a common understanding of our challenges and how we can work together to resolve them. 

This movement relies on volunteer community members working together from all walks of life - all age groups, different community groups, private business owners, teachers, students, spiritual leaders, community organization workers – to create action plans that align all the great work being done in the community to help improve our chances of reaching success together. 

Skátne Teionkwaká:nere is meant to focus on things that nobody else is doing in the community and connect groups already doing similar great work rather than duplicate or replace existing services. 

WHAT IS COLLECTIVE IMPACT?

The framework includes specific conditions:

Common Agenda
A shared vision of the change we want to see AND an agreed upon plan for how we intend to get there.

Shared Measurement
A small number of key indicators that we use to help us to monitor our progress and determine whether our work together is having the intended impact. 

Mutually Reinforcing Activities
The range of strategies and activities that we are working on together – across different groups and organizations – to make our common agenda a reality.

Engagement & Communications

How we share the stories of our progress with each.

Backbone Supports
Collective Impact is not an organization and it’s not a program. It’s a community-wide effort that requires contributions from across the community.  The backbone infrastructure is the necessary structures we need to keep us all working together well and making progress on our common agenda.

Collective Impact Framework 

Collective Impact is framework for community's to help get ideas off the ground. It's a proven way of working together across sectors as a network of community leaders together to translate a community’s shared vision into reality. It’s being used around the world to make positive change happen on a range of complex environmental and/or social issues.

Tracking and measuring
success in Collective Impact efforts

There are FOUR CORE COMPONENTS FOR SUCCESS needed to effectively sustain a collective impact effort. Within each of these core components, progress can be assessed across five phases of evolution that are typically seen in collective impact efforts. 

Components:  

  1. Governance & infrastructure 

  2. Strategic planning 

  3. Community involvement 

  4. Evaluation and improvement.  


Phases:  

  1. Assess readiness 

  2. Initiate action 

  3. Organize for impact 

  4. Begin implementation 

  5. Sustain action and impact