Geneva 2020 presentation for Fall Learning Community

1. Geneva 2020:
Collective Impact

2. “Collective Impact” by John Kania and Mark Kramer
Stanford Social Innovation Review, Winter 2011
When a community comes together to support a single cause,
the results can be truly transformative.
Geneva 2020 is an important effort to advance the Geneva
schools and build a stronger community.

3. Steering Committee
Steering Committee
•Jose Acevedo, President and CEO of Finger Lakes Health
•Greg Baker, Principal of the Geneva High School
•Pat Collins, Professor of Education at Hobart and William Smith Colleges
•Stu Einstein, Community Lunch Program Coordinator, former Mayor of Geneva
•Katie Flowers, Director of the Center for Community Engagement and Service Learning at HWS
•Mark D. Gearan, President of Hobart and William Smith Colleges
•Jane Gerling, Community Member
•Rev. Jim Gerling, Community Member
•Louis Guard, Chief of Staff and Counsel to the President, Hobart and William Smith Colleges
•Matt Horn, City Manager
•Jim MaKinster, Associate Professor of Education at Hobart and William Smith Colleges
•Lucille Mallard, President of the Geneva Chapter of the NAACP
•Kelly J. Mittiga, Senior Vice President, Director of Deposit and Retail Operations, First Niagara Bank
•Alejandra Molina, Director of Office of Intercultural Affairs, Hobart and William Smith Colleges
•Victor Nelson, Secretary of the Board of Directors of the African American Men’s Association
•Trina Newton, Superintendent of the Geneva City School District
•Susan Pliner, Associate Dean for Teaching, Learning and Assessment at Hobart and William Smith
Colleges
•Karen Springmeier, Executive Director, Finger Lakes Workforce Investment Board, Inc.
•Montrose Streeter, Assistant Vice President of Student Affairs at Hobart and William Smith Colleges
•Heather Swanson, Public Information Officer, Geneva City School District
•Mark Venuti, Chair of the Board of the Boys and Girls Club of Geneva
•Catherine Williams, Vice President for Communications, Hobart and William Smith Colleges

4. Collective Impact
Long-term commitments from different sectors with a
common agenda to solve a social challenge.
• Common Agenda
• Shared Measurement System
• Mutually Reinforcing Activities
• Continuous Communication
• Backbone Support Organization

5. Common Agenda
Three Goals Identified by GCSD
as Critical to the Future of our Children
Graduation Rate
Career and College Readiness
Literacy
Cited: www.successforgenevaschildren.org

6. Shared Measurement System
Graduation Rate
Raise the graduation
rate to 90% by 2020
for all students.
Career and College Readiness
Literacy
Ensure that 20% of
students score at the
mastery level on
NYSED regents exams
(85% or above).
Expand GHS alumni
outreach efforts.

7. Mutually Reinforcing Activities
“How can we collaborate to ensure progress towards
Geneva 2020 Goals? What commitments can we make
to support teachers?” http://www.hws.edu/about/geneva2020_priorities.aspx

8. HWS “mutually
reinforcing
activity”

9. Continuous Communication

10. Backbone Support Organization
HWS Colleges

11. SUNY views education as a continuum that begins at birth and is carried on
through school, college, career, and even into retirement. SUNY's Office of the
Education Pipeline is establishing a series of systemic and sustainable regional
education networks across the state and bringing together partners who have
signed on to strengthen this educational continuum.
http://www.suny.edu/cradletocareer/

12. "When a community comes together to support a single cause,
the results can be truly transformative. Geneva 2020 is an
important effort to advance the Geneva schools and build a
stronger community."