Collective Impact
Author: John Kania & Mark Kramer
Date: 2011
Abstract: Strive has brought together local leaders to tackle the student achievement crisis and improve education throughout greater Cincinnati and northern Kentucky. In the four years since the group was launched, Strive partners have improved student success in dozens of key areas across three large public school districts. Why has Strive made progress when so many other efforts have failed? It is because a core group of community leaders decided to abandon their individual agendas in favor of a collective approach to improving student achievement. Our research shows that successful collective impact initiatives typically have five conditions that together produce true alignment and lead to powerful results: a common agenda, shared measurement systems, mutually reinforcing activities, continuous communication, and backbone support organizations. This exciting evolution of the Strive collective impact initiative presages the spread of a new approach that will enable us to solve today’s most serious social problems with the resources we already have at our disposal.
Tags: Collective impact, Community engagement, Education, Impact, Partnering & collaboration,
Link to Resource: https://ssir.org/articles/entry/collective_impact
Date: 2011
Abstract: Strive has brought together local leaders to tackle the student achievement crisis and improve education throughout greater Cincinnati and northern Kentucky. In the four years since the group was launched, Strive partners have improved student success in dozens of key areas across three large public school districts. Why has Strive made progress when so many other efforts have failed? It is because a core group of community leaders decided to abandon their individual agendas in favor of a collective approach to improving student achievement. Our research shows that successful collective impact initiatives typically have five conditions that together produce true alignment and lead to powerful results: a common agenda, shared measurement systems, mutually reinforcing activities, continuous communication, and backbone support organizations. This exciting evolution of the Strive collective impact initiative presages the spread of a new approach that will enable us to solve today’s most serious social problems with the resources we already have at our disposal.
Tags: Collective impact, Community engagement, Education, Impact, Partnering & collaboration,
Link to Resource: https://ssir.org/articles/entry/collective_impact