View the slides from Collective Impact Forum’s April 24th webinar, “Developing a Common Agenda,” featuring contributions from NVI local partner Peak Military Care Network.

Appreciative inquiry is a change management approach that allows groups to focus on identifying what is working well, analyze why it is working well, and use those insights to build on their strengths moving forward. This webinar will walk through the process of running an appreciative inquiry exercise within the context of a cross-sector partnership, and share some tips and tricks for maximizing its outcomes in your collective impact effort moving forward.

Appreciative inquiry is a change management approach that allows groups to focus on identifying what is working well, analyze why it is working well, and use those insights to build on their strengths moving forward. This webinar will walk through the process of running an appreciative inquiry exercise within the context of a cross-sector partnership, and share some tips and tricks for maximizing its outcomes in your collective impact effort moving forward.

Create a shared workspace with topical channels so that your collaborative can chat and share files.

Members of your collaborative can view, comment on, or edit a document together in real-time, or asynchronously, preventing version control issues.

Run surveys and collect non-sensitive data and feedback using SurveyMonkey.

This list of potential stakeholders can serve as a starting point for collaboratives that are just forming or growing and are deciding who to invite to the collaborative table. It is not exhaustive and is intended as a framework for brainstorming stakeholders in your community.

Download FSG’s self-assessment to determine how ready your community is for collective impact, and whether collective impact is the right approach for a social issue in your community.

A free e-course covering the why and how of the collective impact model.

Developed by NVI in partnership with PsychArmor Institute, this 9-minute course was written and narrated by Robert Albright of the Collective Impact Forum. You’ll learn the collective impact framework, define where you are on the collaborative journey, and identify what is needed to move forward.

Developed by NVI in partnership with PsychArmor Institute, this course is for community leaders interested in learning how to use collective impact principles to foster collaboration. Guided by General Martin Dempsey, you will learn about the core capabilities needed to foster collective leadership.

This 40-minute webinar covers basic email marketing topics from the concept of the stakeholder engagement funnel to free and affordable tools for your collaborative.

These slides are from the March 21st presentation of “Introduction to Collective Impact” by Robert Albright and Jennifer Splansky Juster of Collective Impact Forum.

Download the VA’s VetPop spreadsheets to see a demographic breakdown of veterans in your area (based on census data).

This cross-site study report shares practical learning from collective impact practitioners implementing the model in the field.

IVMF offers population data and insight into the needs of veterans and military families.

This Excel spreadsheet is designed to serve as an editorial calendar for planning out communications. It is tailored to the common needs of veteran-serving collaboratives, but mostly it is a structured blank slate for you to fill with your 2021 calendar “hooks” and mission-focused communications. Please adapt and edit to your specific needs. 

PLEASE NOTE: The calendar already includes all 2021 federal holidays, several mil-vet holidays and days of observance, select weekly/monthly observances, some major holidays and observances from several common cultural and religious traditions, and select “hashtag holidays” (days commonly celebrated on social media). These pre-filled “calendar hooks” are included for the convenience of reference only; they are not exhaustive nor are they intended to be prescriptive. As you customize the calendar for your audience and needs, it’s best practice to keep inclusivity in mind.

Sources
Links are included for the convenience of reference only; inclusion does not imply endorsement.
General holidays: Time and Date
Federal holidays: Office of Personnel Management
Major religious and cultural observances: National Parent Teacher Association (PTA)
“Hashtag holidays”: Sprout Social, Hubspot

Backbone organizations: download this toolkit right now for resources to help you with strategic planning, governance, member involvement, and more.

Learn to use shared documents for collaborative writing, editing, and remote work. NOTE: Do not use Google for sensitive or confidential information.

Co-work on slide presentations or keep “living” versions of group slide decks in Google Slides. NOTE: Do not use Google for sensitive or confidential information.

Need to gather non-sensitive information from your collaborative or community? Put together a form or survey using Google Forms, and manage the data you collect from Google Sheets.

Share this simple, two-minute animation to introduce the concept of collective impact to people outside the social change space.

This 15-minute documentary-style video shows the collective impact framework at work in San Diego.

Collective impact pioneer John Kania lectures on “getting real about how social change happens,” or the role of emergence in collective impact.

Tamarack Institute, an international collective impact technical assistance leader, offers a free intro to collective impact theory.

Tamarack Institute, an international collective impact technical assistance leader, discusses how to integrate human-centered design with your collaborative work.

Tamarack Institute, an international collective impact technical assistance leader, discusses how to engage collaborative members in the “co-design” process.

Tamarack Institute, an international collective impact technical assistance leader, shares the evolution of collective impact and what future efforts and conditions they believe will impact social change.

Watch this webinar if you’re working out how your backbone will be structured and make decisions.

This FSG/Collective Impact Forum webinar is all about shared measurement and evaluating your collaborative’s impact.

Learn about how collective impact influences systems change in this “virtual coffee” webinar.

Learn how to get started developing a common agenda with your collaborative.

In “Leveraging Social Media for Stakeholder Impact,” NVI Communications Manager Rhi Guzelian illuminates why social media is a valuable part of your comms strategy, how to choose a platform, considerations for getting set up and maintaining your presence, some pitfalls to avoid, and great examples to follow.

These slides are for the following NVI partner workshop:
Organizing Responsibility and Using Consensus for Inclusive Decision-Making in Your Collaborative

Guest Speaker: Junious Williams, Senior Advisor, Collective Impact Forum
Tuesday, Sept. 17, 10-11:30am PST / 1-2:30pm EST
A collective impact initiative brings together a diverse cast of characters with many establishing new relationships as they build infrastructure to improve outcomes on an important social problem.  The collective impact infrastructure requires thoughtful approaches to sorting out who makes what decisions and how decisions are made. This webinar will explore how to organize decision making responsibility for various decisions and how to use consensus building tools in decision making processes.

This one-hour webinar shows collaboratives:
The stakeholder engagement funnel, and how to move audiences from seeing your work to championing your work
The value of a shared vocabulary in collaborative messaging
How to talk and write about your collaborative work
When and how to tailor your message based on audience and medium

This one-hour communications webinar led by our communications manager, Rhiannon Guzelian, is designed to help you plan your community-based collaborative’s 2020 communications calendar. We cover considerations like communicating on and around holidays and days of significance to military veterans, how to differentiate your messaging in a sea of content, and defining calls to action that align with your collaborative’s goals for the year.

“A vast array of benefits, programs, and services supporting veterans, service members, their families, and survivors has emerged in the post-9/11 era: a “sea of goodwill” that includes players in the public, private, and nonprofit sectors. While many are aware that there are services offered by nonprofit organizations and federal agencies, benefits at the state level remain little known within the veteran community. These state-level benefits, though extensive, vary widely and can be difficult to identify, compare, and access. 
In a new online tool – Veteran Benefit Finder – and corresponding report “State-Level Benefits for Veterans,” CNAS cataloged and analyzed 1,814 unique benefits offered by states across the U.S. to allow stakeholders to explore the range and distribution of those benefits. The Veteran Benefit Finder online tool accompanying this report is designed to be useful for veterans, service members, military families, and survivors – and those who support them. By allowing users to filter by type of benefit, beneficiary, and state, the resource provides a unique and invaluable reference for gaining greater insight into available state benefits. 
In this session, CNAS Senior Fellow and Director of the Military, Veterans, and Society Program, Kayla Williams, will provide an overview of their findings and demonstrate how to use the tool.”

Make sure your 2021 comms are mission-focused and on message! Our Plan Your 2021 Comms Calendar webinar (delivered December 3, 2020) was designed to help local partners craft a top-level plan for their 2021 communications calendar; start thinking about their comms “battle rhythm” so they can be proactive, not reactive; and lay the groundwork for teamwork-oriented processes that can keep collaborators engaged in the shared responsibility of telling the collaborative’s story!

MFRI is a resource for population data, surveys, and research about military families and veterans.

Free courses on military culture and veterans for caregivers, providers, and the public.

CIF’s website is jam-packed with articles, videos, webinar archives, and information about collective impact from experts. CIF also hosts an online community for collective impact practitioners.

“Informing and inspiring leaders of social change,” SSIR offers both scholarly and practical articles on social issues and models for social change. John Kania and Mark Kramer’s collective impact papers were first published here.

Find communities with active Community Veterans Engagement Boards.

Military OneSource publishes reports analyzing trends in military family needs and culture.

A regular partner of Collective Impact Forum, Aspen Community Solutions offers educational resources and consulting for collective impact efforts.

Collaboration for Impact is an Australian collective impact community and resource collection with excellent illustrative tools to help you explain collective impact theory.