STAKEHOLDER ENGAGEMENT SESSIONS
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INTRODUCTIONS
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Purpose of the Engagement
Sessions
 Increase understanding of Collective Impact
 Update you on what the Collective Impact for Toronto
Youth Initiative (CITY) has been up to
 Understand your organizational motivations, priorities, and
ideas for narrowing our common agenda
 Prepare your organization to participate in the Collective
Impact April Event, including making informed decisions
about narrowing our common agenda and approving a
governance model
 Gather any feedback related to planning for a successful
April Event
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Agenda
(approx. 2hrs)
 Introductions
 Collective Impact: an overview
 Collective Impact for Toronto Youth (CITY): What we’ve
been up to
 The Toronto Context: narrowing the common agenda
 Proposed Governance Model
 April Event: Making it Count!
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Activity: Participant
Introductions
 Please share your name and position within the
organization
 Choose one or two additional questions to answer as
part of your introduction:
 How are you feeling today?
 What motivates you to do the work that you do?
 What is something that you have learned from a young
person?
 What do you value about working collaboratively?
 What is something you are hoping to get out of this
session?
 What is something that you are looking forward to?
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COLLECTIVE IMPACT:
AN OVERVIEW
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Activity: Reflection
 Take a moment to write down one or two key
benefits to Collaboration.
 Share
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Video Introductions
 FSG Video: What is
Collective Impact
FSG is a nonprofit consulting firm
specializing in strategy, evaluation,
and research.
 CITY Video: Collective
Impact for Toronto Youth
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What is Collective Impact?
Collective Impact is the commitment of a group of important
actors from different sectors to a common agenda for solving a
specific social problem.
5 Conditions of Collective Impact
 Common agenda: all participants have a shared vision for change
 Shared measurement systems: agreement on the ways success will
be measured and reported
 Mutually reinforcing activities: activities that support and are
coordinated with the actions of others
 Continuous communication: regular meetings and communication to
develop trust, collaborative processes, and to share success
 Backbone support team: separate organization(s) with paid staff time to
plan, manage and support the Collective Impact initiative
*Adapted from: Kania, J. & Kramer, M. (2011) “Collective Impact,” Standford Social Review: Winter
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What the Research Tells Us?
 Large-scale social change comes from cross-sector
coordination rather than isolated interventions of
individual organizations
 Greater progress could be made in alleviating many of
our most serious and complex social problems if
nonprofits, governments, businesses, and the public
were united by a common agenda
 Funders see the potential of Collective Impact projects
and are often more likely to support Collective Impact
than choose to fund a single organization’s initiative
 Collective Impact has demonstrated results
* Adapted from: Kania, J. & Kramer, M. (2011) “Collective Impact,” Standford Social Review: Winter
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Examples: Collective Impact in Action
StriveTogether: A collective impact project in Cincinnati
and Northern Kentucky to improve student outcomes.
During its first five years in Greater Cincinnati, Strive noted positive
improvements in 40 of the 53 educational outcomes it measured.
http://www.strivetogether.org
E3 Alliance: E3 Alliance involves and energizes diverse
stakeholders to build community will, maintain and build
momentum, and drive toward shared commitment for
higher student outcomes and a strong economic future in
Central Texas.
http://e3alliance.org
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Activity: Reflection
 Does Collective Impact differ from your
understanding of collaboration? If so how?
 Take a moment to write down one or two added
benefits of Collective Impact.
 Share
 Questions about Collective Impact?
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COLLECTIVE IMPACT
for
TORONTO YOUTH (CITY)
What we’ve been up to
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History
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June 22, 2012 - Evergreen Brickworks: Approximately 60 people gathered to explore
the concept of developing a Collective Impact initiative related to improving outcomes
for youth in the city of Toronto. The Collective Impact for Toronto Youth Core Team
(Core Team) was formed.
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Fall – Winter 2012 - The Core Team mapped their assets and proposed collective
principles and a broad common agenda
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Spring – Summer 2013 - The Core Team researched mapping projects, on-line tools
and complimentary initiatives
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Fall – Winter 2013 - The Core Team attended collective impact training and applied
new knowledge to setting a framework and work plan for next steps.
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December 2013 - The Core Team circulated a Request for Proposals to hire interim
back bone staff
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January 2014 - The Core Team hired interim backbone staff to re-engage
stakeholders and drive the process for developing a shared agenda
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Winter 2014 - The Interim Backbone staff engage stakeholders to update them on
progress to date and gain their input on focusing the common agenda and choosing a
governance model
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April 28th, 2014 - Key stakeholders are invited to attend a Shared Agenda Setting
Event and vote on a governance model and processes for moving forward
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Activity: Video Review
 CITY Video: Reflecting
on Our Progress
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Broad Common Agenda:
Theory of Change
Vision / Mission / Goals
Vision:
All youth in Toronto experience maximum health,
and are skilled and safe so that they can be equal
participants in our city.
Goals:
All youth between the ages
of 13-24 the furthest away
from opportunities will:
Mission
We will accomplish this through increased access
to opportunities, improved cross- sectoral
coordination and the development of shared
measurement systems.
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THE BROAD COMMON AGENDA
Health
Community Outcome
Be physically and
mentally healthy
and emotionally
well
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Initiative
Outcomes
Enhanced access
to culturally
appropriate
mental health
treatment
Be supported by
positive adult
relationship
Be more
physically active
Practice healthy
habits
Experience less
anxiety,
depression
Engagement
Community Outcome
Community Outcome
Community Outcome
Have their voice
heard and
positively impact
their community
Have safe places in
the community
where they are
welcomed and
supported
Experience safe and
caring learning
environments that
support social and
academic /skills
development
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Civic
Education/E
mployment
Initiative
Outcomes
Improved
educational
experiences that
respond to youth
needs
Increased high
school graduation
rates
More youth find
meaningful
employment
Access diverse
training and
apprenticeship
opp.
Initiative
Outcomes
• More youth play a
leadership role in
informing
decisions that
affect them
• More youth are
active in
addressing social
issues in their
communities
Justice
Safety
System
Community
Outcome
Be respected by
the youth justice
system
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Initiative
Outcomes
• Improved safe
transportation
options
• Increased safe
outdoor spaces
for arts, sports
and recreation
• More youth feel
safe in their
communities
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Initiative
Outcomes
Improved
relationships
between
community and
police (police
accountability)
Better
reintegration
into community
Increased
diversion
Individualized
sentencing
Knowing rights
Not committing
crimes
Youth have
greater access to
programs
Criteria for Narrowing
the Broad Common Agenda
 Urgency: Is there compelling need for collective impact in this area?
 Resources: Are there existing and potential resources dedicated to this
need/area?
 Momentum: Are there existing projects, initiatives, or change already
happening (or planned) for this area?
 Furthest Away/Marginalization: Would a collective impact project in
this area benefit youth the furthest away from supports and resources?
 Scalability: Would it be possible to do a large-scale / cross-sectoral project
in this area?
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WHERE ARE WE? THE FOUR KEY PHASES OF
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Components
for Success
Phase I
Generate Ideas
and Dialogue
Phase II
Initiate Action
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Governance Convene community Identify champions
and form crossand
stakeholders
sector group
Infrastructure
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Phase III
Organize for
Impact
Phase IV
Sustain Action
and Impact
Create
infrastructure
(backbone and
processes)
Facilitate and
refine
Strategic
Planning
Hold dialogue about
Map the landscape
Create common
issue, community
and use data to
agenda (common
context, and
make case
goals and strategy)
available resources
Support
implementation
(alignment to goal
and strategies)
Community
Involvement
Facilitate
community outreach
specific to goal
Engage community
and build public will
Continue
engagement and
conduct advocacy
Establish shared
metrics (indicators,
measurement, and
approach)
Collect, track, and
report progress
(process to learn
and improve)
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Determine if there is
Evaluation
consensus/urgency
And
Improvement to move forward
* Resource borrowed from Innoweave materials
Facilitate
community
outreach
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Analyze baseline
data to ID key
issues and gaps
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Questions about CITY’s work to
date?
Next Steps…Using the criteria to
narrow the broad common agenda
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THE TORONTO CONTEXT
What does the data tell us?
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Activity:
Snapshot of Toronto Youth
 1: Rank each outcome area according to the 5
criteria. Use you own knowledge of each area – the Snapshot
Cards are there for additional info, but we do not expect you to
read them in detail. It’s OK if you don’t finish or if your answers
change down the road – this activity is intended to create
dialogue and a deeper understanding of these outcome areas.
 2: Identify your organization’s top 2 priority areas
and potential metrics you would be interested in
addressing
 Is your decision based on any external metrics/data
that we should be aware of?
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Next Steps for Narrowing the
Broad Common Agenda
 At the event we will present back what we found
and highlight themes and alignment so that the
group may choose a focused common agenda.
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PROPOSED
GOVERNANCE MODEL
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Proposed Governance Model
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Activity: Governance Model
 As an organization, please take time to review the
Proposed Governance Model and accompanying
handouts prior to April
 We’ll be looking for input on the model in April so that
we can move forward with a Collective Impact
infrastructure that outlines membership,
responsibilities, decision making..
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MAKING IT COUNT!
COLLECTIVE IMPACT
FOR TORONTO YOUTH
April 28th at The 519 Church Street
Community Centre
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Making it Count Event:
Purpose
 Review data gathered from the stakeholder
engagement sessions
 Choose the priority metric or focus that the CITY
Clusters will attempt to impact (narrow the "common
agenda”)
 Provide input on a proposed governance model for
CITY moving forward (including decision-making
and membership structures)
 Determine organizations’ commitment to being
involved with the CITY initiative moving forward
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Making it Count! Registration
 The Making It Count! event will be held on April 28th at
519 Church St. It will be a full-day event.
 All attendees can register online at:
http://www.studentscommission.ca/city/register2014.ph
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 We hope you will have a senior decision-maker, a
frontline worker and a youth representative attend the
event. All attendees must individually register.
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Making it Count! Expectations
 In order to be well informed for meaningful participation and
decision making, we hope that all attendees of the April 28th
Making it Count! event will attend a Stakeholder Engagement
Session.
 Between now and the April 28th, we hope that organizations will
review the information we have shared and develop an
organizational position on the following topics:
 What outcome area are you most interested in working on
through a Collective Impact approach?
 What focus/specific metric are you interested in moving
the needle on? (Narrowing the broad common agenda)
 Are you committed to moving forward with this initiative
and the proposed governance model?
(we’re on board! / we’ve still got questions… /we can’t be
involved at this time )
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Activity: Making it Count!
What do you want to see?
 Discussion
 If you attended the Collective Impact Event in 2012 at
Brickworks Evergreen, what did you like/dislike?
 Do you have any recommendations for the Making it
Count! April Event?
 What do you hope to see/experience/get out of the
event?
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THANK YOU!
We know your time is valuable – thanks for
spending this time with us!
Hope to see you April 28th at The 519!
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