“The purpose of this resource is to provide a guide for partnership staff in addressing common challenges while building an accountability structure, particularly ensuring the structure is suited to meet local, contextual needs. It provides questions to consider when building your unique accountability structure to
✴︎ Available with free registration “The Guide to Evaluating Collective Impact … [offers] practitioners, funders, and evaluators a way to think about, plan for, and implement different performance measurement and evaluation activities. This guide’s three goals are to: Discuss the role of continuous learning and adaptation in the
This working paper from John Donahue, Director of the Weil Program on Collaborative Governance at Harvard’s Kennedy School, looks at where collaborative governance fits into the taxonomy of models for structuring collective action, how to categorize examples of collaborative governance (by duration, formality, focus, etc.),
“The [White House Council for Community Solutions] has developed this Community Collaboratives Toolbox to guide communities in creating or improving their own needle-moving collaboratives. This Toolbox is geared toward: Local officials (such as mayors, school superintendents and police chiefs) exploring collaboratives as a means to create
“Accountability can present a major barrier to achieving a cross-sector partnership’s intended impact. However, accountability is crucial to ensure work is moving forward and progressing in a way that contributes to a partnership’s shared result. Imagine a meeting or convening of partners where no one
✴︎ Available with free registration This Working Group Reporting Template is intended to assist with identifying indicators and/or key data points for shared measurement and should be used with the Instructions for Developing Shared Metrics. Specifically, the resource guides partners in considering whether a potential indicator meets
✴︎ Available with free registration “Franklin County Communities that Care Coalition is a collective impact initiative to reduce substance use and improve the ability of youth to reach their full potential in rural Franklin County, Massachusetts. A resource for collective impact backbone organizations, funders, and partners,
“The Better Data toolkit helps partners in a collective impact effort collect better data and use it to drive decisions. It guides them to collect complete data about youth outcomes, community supports, and leadership actions; align and connect data for decision making across systems; and
✴︎ Available with free registration “Opportunity Chicago is a collective impact initiative that successfully helped over 5,000 public housing residents prepare for and find quality jobs in Chicago, Illinois from 2006-2011. This case study provides collective impact backbone organizations, funders, and partners with an overview of
“This guide aims to provide practical information on creating and maintaining public-private partnerships to improve and expand youth programs in states and communities nationwide. It draws from the wisdom and experiences of successful partnership leaders at the national, state, and local levels and offers guidance