02/04/2016 Collective Impact Funder Community of Practice: In-Person Meeting | February 4, 2016 PREPARED FOR: COLLECTIVE IMPACT FUNDER COMMUNITY OF PRACTICE PARTICIPANTS

02/04/2016 I. Introductions and COP Overview II. Building and Sustaining Momentum in CI III. Lunch Peer Discussions IV. Peer Assist Workshops V. Wrap Up and Next Steps 2

Fay Hanleybrown Managing Director Using the Ecocycle Framework in Collective Impact: A Perspective from Fay Hanleybrown, FSG Fay Hanleybrown Managing Director

What does it mean to work within complex adaptive systems?

Collective impact efforts tend to transpire over five phases Governance and Infrastructure Strategic Planning Collective impact efforts tend to transpire over five phases Community Engagement Phase I Assess Readiness Phase II Initiate Action Phase III Organize for Impact Phase IV Begin Implementation Phase V Sustain Action and Impact Components for Success Evaluation And Improvement Convene community leaders Identify champions and form cross-sector Steering Committee “SC” to guide the effort Determine initial workgroups and plan backbone organization Launch work groups “WGs” and select backbone organization Building out the backbone organization; evolve WGs to meet emergent strategy Hold dialogue about issue, community context, and available resources Map the landscape and use data to make case Create common agenda, clear problem definition, population level goal Develop Blueprint for Implementation; identify quick wins Refine strategies; mobilize for quick wins Determine community readiness; Create a community engagement plan Begin outreach to community leaders Incorporate community voice - gain community perspective and input around issue Engage community more broadly and build public will Continue engagement and conduct advocacy Determine if there is consensus/urgency to move forward Analyze baseline data to ID key issues and gaps Develop high level shared metrics and/or strategies at SC level Establish shared measures (indicators and approach) at SC and WG levels Collect, track, and report progress (process to learn and improve) Source: FSG Interviews and Analysis

From lifecycle to ecocyle in collective impact The Performance Loop The Renewal Loop Source: Brenda Zimmerman, http://www.plexusinstitute.org/edgeware/archive/think/main_aides9.html

The ecocycle model recognizes that collaboratives evolve over time 02/04/2016 The ecocycle model recognizes that collaboratives evolve over time = Key inflection point Renewal/Exploration Maturity/Conservation Exploitation Creative Destruction There is an opportunity to explore the different elements of a collective impact effort by mapping them onto this framework

02/04/2016 Resisting the transitions required in each phase gets you caught in traps = Key inflection point Renewal/Exploration Maturity/Conservation Parasitic Trap Rigidity Trap Scarcity Trap “ We don’t resist change. We resist transitions.” David Leach, MD, ACGME conference Sept ’07 Resisting transitions is getting caught in traps. Chronic Disaster Trap Exploitation Creative Destruction Avoiding the traps demands new leadership, new social connections, and new resource realignments