Neighborhood Spotlight
Engagement and Visioning
Overview
http://www.legacyfdn.org/neighborhood-spotlight.php
INTRODUCTIONS
Technical Assistance Team
• Andy Fraizer, Executive Director
Indiana Association for Community Economic
Development (IACED)
• Rose Scovel, Director of Capacity Building,
IACED
• Rachel Mattingly, Program Manager, IACED
• Jim Capraro, Capraro Consulting
Process
SPOTLIGHT NEIGHBORHOODS
Neighborhood Spotlight
• Neighborhood Spotlight
– Focused on places and the people in places
– Not a coalition around a population or activity
• Goals
– Common agenda
– Shared measurement
– Mutually reinforcing activities
– Continuous communications
– Backbone support
Neighborhood Spotlight Process
• 2015: First partners in collective impact process;
technical assistance and second round selection
• 2016: Second selection completes collective impact
plan; technical assistance and third selection of
partners
• 2017: Third set of selected partners completes
collective impact plan
Overview
Year 2
Today!
THEORY OF CHANGE:
UNDERSTANDING COMMUNITY
Building Relationships
Catch each other’s attention
• Send an email or strike up a
conversation
Building Relationships
Establish interest in having a
conversation
• Note common goal or interest
Building Relationships
Learn each other’s stories
• Ask and answer questions
• Learn each other’s motivations, what
each has to contribute
Building Relationships
Make exchanges
• Find opportunities to offer insight,
support, or other things of value to
each other
Building Relationships
Make a commitment to the relationship
• Agree to future meetings or
exchanges
“Visions are subjective expressions of our values
manifested in the form of a possible future. A
vision is defined by what we are for rather than
what we are against.”
--Gabriel B. Grant
Problem-based Thinking
• Communicating in terms of a problem often
leads to denial, resistance, and polarization
• Focusing on problems limits thinking to
solutions that are “good enough”
– May result in “rebound effect,” when symptoms
come back stronger because the solution only
avoided an unwanted outcome and failed to
create the desired outcome
Vision-oriented Thinking
• Communicating in terms of a vision may
inspire others and create opportunities for
finding alignment
• Focusing on a possible future expands
thinking to alternative solutions or paths
– May identify root causes or integrative solutions
that lead to the desired outcome
COLLECTIVE IMPACT PLANNING
What does a Collective Impact Plan
DO/What is it?
• Through active community involvement, it
yields a vision of what a neighborhood sees
for its future
• Details clear goals to achieve that vision
• Articulates an action plan to reach those goals
How does it work?
• Community building creates relationships as
resources
– Asset Based Community Development approach
– Engagement before Visioning
• Collective Impact Planning: A Social Contract
– Formal and informal leadership engaged in the
process
• Going Public
ENGAGING THE COMMUNITY
ONE ON ONE PRACTICE
REPORT OUT AND REFLECTION
VISIONING EXERCISE
REPORT OUT AND REFLECTION
Next Steps
• Thursday, April 30: Contracting: Strategy,
Agreement and Commitment
• Thursday, June 18: Going Public
• Ongoing assistance as needed
Next Steps
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Rachel Mattingly, Program Manager
317-454-8542
rmattingly@iaced.org
http://www.iaced.org
Questions?