1. Working Your Assets Off
Prosper Waco
Initiative
Working Your Assets Off
MI 2017 Conference
November 10, 2017

2. Presentation Overview
Overview of the Prosper Waco initiative
Deep dive into three financial security efforts using Scorecard
Highlight additional cross-sector efforts
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4. What Is the Prosper Waco initiative?
A collective impact initiative that convenes cross-sector partners to identify and implement strategic efforts to measurably improve the education, health and financial security of people in the Waco community.
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6. Overall Education Goal
The Greater Waco community will build an environment that promotes lifelong educational attainment for all residents beginning at birth.
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7. Overall Education Goal
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8. Overall Health Goal
McLennan County will reach the top quartile (60th or better) of Texas Counties in Quality of Life—currently 141st – and Health Behaviors– currently 209th – in Robert Wood Johnson Foundation County Health Rankings by 2020.
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9. Overall Health Goal
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10. Overall Financial Security Goal
At least 55% of Waco residents will live with income above 200% of the Federal Poverty Level ($48,600 for a family of four) by 2020.
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11. Overall Financial Security Goal
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12. How Does Collective Impact Work?
Partners agree on goals that can be measured
Partners use the goals to guide their own work
Partners work together to make things happen they couldn’t do on their own
A “backbone” facilitates and measures success
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13. Building A Culture Focused On Results
Training and support for nonprofit organizations to understand how to manage to outcomes and how data can be used to drive decisions
Facilitating collaborative data-driven approaches (e.g., School Readiness Initiative, Community Health Needs Assessment)
Responsible for monitoring a wide range of community indicators related to education, health and financial security and making them accessible to the community
Data Dashboard
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14. Elements of CI Elements of RBA Common Agenda
Working toward common results and indicators
Shared Measurement
How much? How well? Is anyone better off?
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Mutually reinforcing activities/aligned contributions
A coordinated, systematic way of thinking
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15. Turn The Curve on
Financial Assets

16. Cross-Sector Efforts

17. Community
Health Worker

18. Partners involved: Waco-McLennan County Public Health District, Providence Healthcare Network, Baylor Scott & White Medical Center-Hillcrest, Episcopal Health Foundation
Action Plan: complete training; move to implementation phase; refine referral system; begin tracking impact
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19. Community-
Centered
Health Home

20. Partners involved: Family Health Center, Baylor University, World Hunger Relief, Greater Waco Legal Services, Episcopal Health Foundation
Action Plan: Physician council designed to identify opportunities for involvement in the initiative; medical-legal partnership will begin patient survey needs in early 2018
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21. Project
Link

22. Partners involved: Waco ISD, La Vega ISD, MCC, TSTC, Rapoport Foundation
Action Plan: college persistence and completion; coordinating with other college access programs in the community
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23. Takeaways Framework eases fear of sharing data
Provides clear framework for partners to move from talk to action quickly
Allows for organizations to use the same lingo
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24. Contact Information
Matthew Polk, PhD, MBA
Executive Director
Brittany Fitz-Chapman, PhD
Dir. of Data & Research
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25. Questions?
Thank you!
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