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Special initiatives PDF 8-3-12
The document describes several campus and community initiatives aimed at increasing engagement. The High-Impact Initiative is a 3-year developmental program that connects high-impact educational practices to community engagement projects. It aims to promote institutional and community change through multi-sector teams. The Community Networking Corps helps build capacity for collective impact by strengthening networks of non-profits through campus resources like student research and meeting facilitation. PolicyOptions.org will be an online community information hub and newsletter.
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- 1. Campus- and Special Initiatives Community-Wide Engagement
- 2. What We’ll Cover •High-Impact Initiative • Community Networking Corps • PolicyOptions.org
- 3. How We Innovate! ✤ “From best practice to common practice” ✤ Experiment ✤ Refine ✤ Define best practice ✤ Spread
- 4. Motivation for High- ImpactInitiative ✤ Change and pressure in non-profit landscape ✤ Shrinking resources ✤ Increased focus on evidence and impact ✤ An aim to move programs to the next level, towards impact
- 5. Motivation for High- ImpactInitiative ✤ Crisis and change in higher education ✤ Proven program model ✤ Need for staff and faculty development ✤ A hope to mobilize teams for institutional change
- 6. What is theHigh- Impact Initiative? ✤ A strategic initiative to amplify high-impact practices by connecting them to high-impact community engagement ✤ A cohort based developmental program model
- 7. Building a national learningcommunity ✤ An aim to leverage knowledge and best practices from the Bonner Program and Network, as well as the field more broadly
- 8. Why Link HIPsand HICEPs? ✤ To show how all high impact practices can be linked ✤ To drive institutionalization of community engagement ✤ To promote institutional and community change
- 9. Transformation Teams Students Partners Design and carry out high- impact projects and Staff mobilize institutional Faculty and community change
- 10. A 3+ YearDevelopmental Strategy Year 4 and beyond...continue to participation in national learning community Year 1 Year 3 • Strategic planning •Attend institute • Build team • Sustainability vision • Data collection & plan • Identify assets • Refine projects and • Attend institute institutional changes • Select & do first • Begin to implement projects impact assessment Year 2 • Expand team & participation • Attend institute • Select & do next two projects • Document and share learning
- 11. To get involved ✤ Invitations in August ✤ President’s Letter by November ✤ Team leader and team by December ✤ Meet two times prior to March Planning Retreat ✤ Attend Planning Retreat ✤ Attend Institute with potential projects
- 12. PARTNER NEEDS 92% Direct Action (service) 47% 89% Capacity Building 19% 87% Convening 28% 85% CBR 25% 92% Policy News & Analysis 24% 88% Community Info Hub 34% 0% 25% 50% 75% 100% Need / Highly Need Occurring
- 13. Community Networking Teams BuildingCapacity for Collective Impact
- 14. What non-profit groups or networks work in your cities or states?
- 15. What makes a goodnetwork good? What makes a weak network weak?
- 16. from “Building SmartCommunities through Network Weaving” by Valdis Krebs and June Holley © 2002-2006
- 20. Alliance Council Collaborative Initiative Network The goal is collective impact Committee Commission Workgroup Partnership Coalition
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- 23. How can campuseshelp?
- 24. Campus Assets for Community Networking • we already partner with a wide range of local groups • we are considered neutral for the most part • we have useful networking skills in: ‣ organizing and facilitating meetings, ‣ doing research, ‣ using the internet to communicate and coordinate
- 25. Roles Students CanPlay (with networking support) • Administrative support • Assist in managing meetings (space, invitations, minutes) • Set-up and maintain online networking (listervs, wikis) • Conduct research: ✓ Model programs & best practices ✓ Funding sources (finding upcoming grants) ✓ Data collection and analysis (local and state statistics) ✓ Conduct original research as needed (e.g., surveys, oral histories, etc.) • Organize social media outreach (Facebook, Twitter)
- 26. Network the Networks After-School School Breakfast Healthy Kids Juvenile Crime Youth Employment
- 28. Single Groups Collective Action Team Community Leaders Networking Corps Regular Volunteers (weekly) Meetings Research Occasional Volunteers Technology (1x) Fundraising Site/Issue-Based Team Community Networking Team
- 29. Bonner Foundation Support •share models of network weaving, esp. those involving campuses/students • develop technical trainings for students on meeting facilitation, setting up wikis, managing listservs, etc. • network our campuses piloting this approach
- 30. • What information do you need? • Where do you find it? • Challenges?
- 31. PolicyOptions.org Community Information Hub
- 34. Planned Features Community Calendar Community Listserv Customized Email News Digest Sub-categorization
- 35. Digests Begin!
- 36. Staffing needed? 4-8 hoursper week Student 1 hour + Faculty or Staff Student
- 37. PolicyOptions Guides Begin!