1. HOW DO YOU BUILD A STRONG CROSS-SECTOR PARTNERSHIP TO IMPLEMENT THE PRINCIPLES OF COLLECTIVE IMPACT AND ACHIEVE YOUR GOALS? Presented to: The Integration Initiative Learning Community #8 Oakland, CA March 11, 2014

2. Why are we talking about cross-sector partnerships? 2

3. The innovation in collective impact, is not the principles… Source: Channeling Change: Making Collective Impact Work, Stanford Social Innovation Review, January 2012.

4. Interest-based frame of cross-sector partnerships

5. Group Exercise #1 Individually, complete the cross-sector partnership assessment form. Come back together as a group, and identify the following: – What is your team’s answer to each question? – Which questions did team members answer differently? – Which answers surprised you?

6. Round Robin! Which questions did team members answer differently? Which answers surprised you?

7. What do your answers mean? Let’s go over them together!

8. What is Living Cities learning about building stronger cross-sector partnerships to implement the principles of collective impact?

9. Result

10. Charge

11. Authority AuthorizedEmpowered

12. Representatives

13. Level of Intervention

14. Structure InformalFormal

15. Trust Building & Maintenance Cycle

16. Problem-Solving Cycle

17. Look out for these patterns and misalignments! 17

18. 18 The Bermuda Triangle Result Charge Level of Intervention

19. Representatives & Structure

20. 20 The Form-Perform Paradox

21. 21 Weak Analyzing & Reflecting

22. Group Exercise #2 Compare your cross-sector partnership’s traits and behaviors to the traits we just went through. Where were things aligned and misaligned with the model? What are your interpretations of why that is? (Try and identify at least 3 interpretations of why that could be). What are 2-3 things you can commit to trying to do in order to strengthen your partnership?

23. Final Round Robin! What is one thing that you site is going to commit to trying to better strengthen your cross-sector partnership’s structure/behaviors?

24. 24 Alison Gold Assistant Director of Knowledge & Impact Living Cities Phone: 646-442-2238 Email: agold@livingcities.org Twitter: @AKGold11, @Living_Cities #xsector Web: www.LivingCities.orgwww.LivingCities.org