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.

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-
Impact Initiative
✤ 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-
Impact Initiative
✤ 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 the High-
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
learning community
✤ An aim to leverage
knowledge and best
practices from the
Bonner Program and
Network, as well as
the field more broadly

8. Why Link HIPs and 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+ Year Developmental 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
Building Capacity for Collective Impact

14. What non-profit groups
or networks work in
your cities or states?

15. What makes a
good network good?
What makes a
weak network weak?

16. from “Building Smart Communities 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

21. Trenton, NJ |Map

23. How can campuses help?

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 Can Play
(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 hours per week
Student 1 hour
+ Faculty or
Staff
Student

37. PolicyOptions Guides
Begin!