Apply the Collective Impact Model to create

Sustainable and Strategic Partnerships

Rose Gundersen, E.J.D.Co-founder and Executive Director

Network of anti-slavery

activists & safe houses = Freedom Railroad

Harriet Tubman (1822 –1913)

American Dream

I live the Dream

Shattered Dream•Threats of violence on victims & family overseas•Debt bondage with visas withheld

Modern-day Slavery

Our DaughtersCollege and Career

Underage WA teen rescued in Portland

• 80% of human trafficking victims are women and children• At least 100,000 domestic

minors are exploited as sex trafficking victims

Study estimates that 90% of prostituted people (regardless of age) are trafficked by pimps

Brutality & Hunger

WA State is awarded 1st in law of all 50 states

LONG-TERM goals:• Comprehensive

Law• Comprehensive

Prevention

Our Work:

Are we still carrying our own puzzle

piece?

Are we having difficulty

fitting with one another?

Collective Impact’s Five Conditions to Solve Complex Social Issues

1. A Common Agenda2. A Shared Measurement System3. Mutually Reinforcing Activities4. Continuous Communication5. Backbone Support Organizations

Shape-Up Somerville, MA•Campaign’s Vision: to greatly reduce childhood obesity in Somerville, MA

•Scope: 1st -3rd Graders Before, During, and After school combined approach.

• Created two primary goals for all different facets to work toward:• Increase exercise by 125kcal/day• A sustainable program to change lifestyle

• 3 Phases / 3-year plan

• Community-wide program with many sectors involved

List of Community Partners

• Tufts University• Somerville Public Schools• Somerville Youth Network• MA Dept. of Health• Cambridge Health Alliance• Institute for Community Health• Groundwork Somerville• Active Living by Design

What made Somerville work?

• Willingness to embrace changes at all levels• Continuous communication, education, & training• Modeling and Reinforcement of Governmental and

Community Policies• Collaborations and partnerships with schools, community

leaders, parents and community groups.• Continuous reinvestment in program facilities, equipment and

infrastructure.• Grant Funding: Shape Up Somerville, PEP, Growing Health• Planning and a positive, proactive approach to problem solving• Always keeping the kids (or those you are serving) first

How do their conditions match with our the Five Conditions?

1. Common Agenda- All groups worked towards common goal of – increased physical activity– create sustainable infrastructure encouraging activity and healthy eating– Always keeping the kids (or those you are serving) first

2. Shared Measurement: Agreed upon measure to determine effectiveness:– Kcal/day used to measure increase in activity

3. Mutually Reinforcing Activities– Before/During/Afterschool all reinforced common ideals cumulatively combating

obesity.– Modeling and Reinforcement of Governmental and Community Policies

4. Continuous Communication– Scheduled “check-ins” and meetings to assess success and adjust plans– Continuous communication, education, & training

5. Backbone Support Organizations– Researchers and Students did not implement programs but were responsible for

organizing and coordinating a variety of efforts to stimulate programs.– Collaborations and partnerships with schools, community leaders, parents and

community groups.

The Elizabeth River Project• Collective impact approach to restore a river in Portsmouth, VA

– Industries, Businesses, Schools, Municipalities, Federal Government, and Non-profits

• Uses demographic-specific programs to target multi-sectors– River Stars and River Stars Schools, River Otter Society, The Learning Barge,

Adult Education• Guiding Principals:

– Build strong partnerships through a collaborative approach.– Incorporate public education into every action.– Plan proactively to reduce the impacts of rising sea levels.– Monitor progress in each action area, using "indicators" tracked against a

baseline. – Promote environmental justice for all stakeholders.

http://www.elizabethriver.org/The_Elizabeth_River/Action_Plans.aspx and Watershed Report 2008

Steps Towards Progress

• Year-by-year “Road Map” and step-by-step achievable action plan in place:– Seven Steps including: Sediment clean up, restoring

wetlands, oysters, and forests, increase oxygen levels, reduce harmful bacteria, environmental responsibility for business and development, integrate policies and regulations, create a call to action with roles for all.

– Details specific challenge, deadline goals (2014 & 2020), and possible solutions and actions to achieve desired results.

Watershed Report 2008

Steps Towards Progress

KnowledgeWorks – an initiative to transform education in the US

• Vision: – Students are prepared for tomorrow’s challenges with the

ability to create, adapt and solve problems• Goals: – To effect meaningful policy and structural change (to

support the reform) at local and state levels, and – To ensure change can survive across time and political shifts

(sustainability).• Emphasis: – Not just to change an isolated school, but the structure

within which education operates

The Strive Model - Cincinnati, OH (a subsidiary of KnowledgeWorks)

• Education Coalition: – Connects leaders at all levels and across all sectors

in a community (“Cradle to Career”)– Over 300 groups: philanthropies, colleges, public

agencies, non-profits, and businesses) – United around a common vision for education and

a set of student outcomes (goals, measurements and results)

Student Road Map a shared agenda developed together

The Strive Model

• Public policy and school support reform:– Improves systems and services by promoting

collaboration and data-driven decision making – Implements action plans of high impact strategies

effectively and efficiently • Advocacy:– Advocates for public and private resources to

support what works for children

Strive Partnership in Cincinnati

• Outcome1: – Increased graduation and college enrollment rates– Better kindergarten preparation (readiness) – Student and family area support

• Impact – Strive Network (www.strivenetwork.org)– It is working with university anchors in nine other

cities to implement partnerships based on the Strive framework.

1: http://knowledgeworks.org/action/our-results/system-result/ccs-study/cincy-strive

The Strive Network• Benefit: Enables members to share expertise, identify and adapt programs that work and

develop effective tools and resources that can be brought to bear on specific challenges. (http://strivenetwork.org/strive-network)

Details of Strive Partnership’s Five Conditions

1. Common Agenda– Increasing kindergarten readiness; supporting students inside and outside of school; providing academic help;

encouraging students to graduate and enroll in college, and complete college well prepared to enter the workforce and succeed.

2. Shared Measurements– 54 data-based, shared measurements: e.g. High school graduation rates, college enrollment rates, test scores, pre-

school readiness data, etc. that indicate progress at 5 major points for a student between kindergarten and workforce readiness.

3. Mutually Reinforcing Activities– Strive assigns specific tasks for individual partners in alignment with community-level indicators, identifies

data needed to monitor progress, and sets annual program performance goals.

4. Continuous Communication– Interaction between Strive professional staff and partners– Annual reporting to demonstrate partners’ progress and increase accountability

5. Backbone Support Organizations– KnowledgeWorks, support staff, guided by an executive committee that includes corporate CEOs, leaders of

corporate and private foundations, the superintendents of five local school systems, presidents of local universities, and executive directors of the most influential education nonprofits and advocacy groups.

– functions as an intermediary and executes on those decisions.– works with service providers to help them continuously improve their outcomes. It advocates for its policy

agenda to align community giving around its priorities.

Mars Chocolate CompanyPrimary Goal: A Revitalized Cocoa Sector in Cote

d’IvoireObjectives:Build capacity of intermediary organizations to work with farmers in each community on the following:1. Set up Farmer Field Schools2. Improve communities’ financial management3. Adoption of sustainable land management4. Implement literacy programs5. Educate and Sensitize communities in health issues like

HIV/AIDS, TB, Malaria etc.6. Identify and Implement measure to eliminate abusive labor

practices

Key Components

• Communities develop their own community action plan and set their own priorities for its implementation

• Deliver training, material, planning and management skills to build the respective constructions and capacities

• In all instances, iMPACT works through collaboration with relevant government institutions (the Ministries for Agriculture, Health and Education) – Collaboration ensures capacity building not only in

the communities but also in the public sector, and – Concerted effort ensures the sustainability.

Partners: existing

Intermediary Organizations Mars

Chocolate Partners

International Cocoa

Initiative (labor issue)

IFESH (sustainable education)

Sustainable Tree Crop

ProgrammeRainforest Alliance

(Certification of cocoa)

Africare (Healthcare)

German Technical

Cooperation (bus mgmt of

farm)

• 40,000 People impacted• 70% of farmers adopted sustainable

agricultural practices• Measured improvement in cocoa quality,

productivity, and income• Decreased child labor and improved education• 75% follow recommendations for HIV/AIDS

prevention

Results after 3 years

How does their project align with the five conditions?

1. Common Agenda– Mars Chocolate funded the programs implemented by the many different

organizations and therefore maintained a cohesive campaign

2. Shared Measurement– Their studies used agreed upon measures, and having interim goals along the

way helps to keep pace and assess progress being made

3. Mutually Reinforcing Activities– Each sub-section worked to support and encourage the other programs and

goals.

4. Continuous Communication– Regular meetings, focus groups, adjustments

5. Backbone Support Organizations– Mars chocolate established both a Mars chocolate position to oversee the

project as well as government agents whose sole role was oversight and assessment of the program

Inspiration and Intrigues?

• What intrigues you about the examples shared?

• Are you inspired by these examples and how?

• Interested in developing a collective model for combating human trafficking?

• What will it look like?

WA Engage: the hub for CATs, the broker for tools & best practices, the connector to resources

Operating Principles:• Centralized support• Accountability• Communication• Measurable goals• Develop & Implement

: assessment & prevention tools

WA Engage as the Hub, Broker,

Connector

Federal Way

Thurston County

Kittitas County

Tri-Cities

Yakima

Other communities

Result: Impact Multiplication and Sustainability

Assessment

• Surveys will raise awareness and establish baselines:• Qualify

understanding

• Quantity awareness and training needs

• Collect anecdotal and quantifiable data

• Identify current and potential resources

Prevention Kit

• Assess and broker tool and best practices for• relevancy and• delivery to

communities• Develop

community based tools and support system

• Network and document and assess successes and challenges to improve and replicate

Map out allies in Federal Way and South King County?

• City Vision• Other

municipalities

• Law Enforcement

• Schools• Boys and Girls

Club• Service groups

• Shelters• Job training

Protection Prevention

Partner-ships

Prosecution

Executive Director/Co-founder: Rose Gundersen, E.J.D rose@waengage.com 360-561-7616

Board President/Community Associate:Brenda Oliverbrendao@waengage.com

Join the Movement

website: www.WAEngage.com