Anne H. Silvis, University of Illinois Extension Specialist in Leadership Development and Director of the Laboratory for Community and Economic Development, will describe practices that build collaboration at the community level and how collaborative efforts foster improved outcomes for individuals, organizations and communities. This plenary session will offer participants a chance to explore concepts and strategies with one another in small groups.

1. Greetings from University of Illinois Extension!

2. Collaboration for Collective ImpactWhat we know, what we don’t know,and what we can do about it! Anne Heinze Silvis Extension Specialist University of Illinois Extension

3. Defining Collaboration

4. Defining Collaboration

5. Why collaboration?

6. Why collaboration?Because it works! Not only does it work,it is the only way that works.

7. What we know about building collaborations . . . .

10. Collaboration:What it is/What it is not

11. Collaboration:What it is/What it is not

12. Collaborationrequires new roles and speaks to current conditions.

13. Community Conditions

14. Illinois Rural Life Poll

15. Building toward collaboration

16. Key Principles for Collaborative Solutions:1. encourage true collaboration as the form of exchange.

17. Key Principles for Collaborative Solutions:2. engage the full diversity of the community, especially those most directly affected.

18. Key Principles for Collaborative Solutions:3. practice democracy and promote active citizenship and empowerment.

19. Key Principles for Collaborative Solutions:4. employ an ecological approach that builds on community strengths.

20. Key Principles for Collaborative Solutions:5. take action by addressing issues of social change and power on the basis of a common vision.

21. Key Principles for Collaborative Solutions:6. engage spirituality as your compass for social change.

22. No problem can be solvedfrom the same consciousnessthat created it. We must learn to see the world anew. Albert Einstein