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Planning and Change Management

Collective Impact provides planning and change management services to assist organizations and communities to envision the future and develop the necessary actions to realize it. We help clients create a "roadmap" to guide their efforts toward preferred results.

Collective Impact facilitates planning and change management processes for organizations and communities. We combine elements of traditional strategic planning, use a logic model - theory of change approach, and provide tools that assist clients through each step of their change process. Collective Impact guides clients through all phases of planning and change management, including issues analysis, vision and mission development, action planning, and benchmarking and monitoring change efforts. We can also help clients communicate, brand, and evaluate their efforts.

Our approach is mission-driven, meaning that we help clients focus on why they exist and ways to better implement their efforts to realize their mission. Collective Impact understands that clients are at different stages of organizational or community development. We customize our approach to address each client's unique needs and situation.

Collective Impact has experience providing planning and change management services for many entities, including non-profit organizations, governmental agencies, entrepreneures, multi-disciplinary groups, collaboratives, and systems of care. We are skilled at helping to achieve consensus among diverse groups of people.

Collective Impact has specific experience assisting clients in developing outcomes frameworks for benchmarking, identifying trends, and monitoring success. These frameworks help clients to demonstrate returns on investments and value-added benefits to funders, customers, policy makers, or the general public.

Collective Impact also works with communities to integrate their children and family service systems. We help communities identify where they are on the integration continuum and develop the necessary steps to move forward. Connect The Dots is a "creative communities" development strategy that helps strengthen community capacity and enrich social capital.

Planning and change management services from Collective Impact can help clients to be proactive rather than reactive, to create change and improvement rather than react to change. This will better position organizations and communities for greater success.

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Collective Impact continues to work with Washington Drug and Alcohol Commission (WDAC) and Greene County Drug and Alcohol Program on their problem gambling initiatives. With the increased availability of legalized gambling in Pennsylvania comes increased concern regarding the individual and social costs of problem gambling. The Pennsylvania Department of Drug and Alcohol Programs (DDAP) is addressing this concern by increasing problem gambling prevention, education and outreach efforts throughout the state. Problem gambling prevention activities are intended to increase awareness of problem gambling within the general public; inform teachers, policy makers, and other professionals about the impact of problem gambling on the family unit, schools and communities; and educate at-risk populations such as college students, youth, and older adults about risk and protective factors in an effort to prevent problem gambling.

Success

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For over a 16 month period, Collective Impact provided an array of planning, coordination, facilitation, stakeholder engagement and input, and research services to assist Ridgeline and the West Virginia Governor’s Early Childhood Planning Task Force in the creation of the 10-year comprehensive Development Plan for Early Childhood in West Virginia. Recognizing the importance of the earliest years of life, Governor Earl Ray Tomblin created the Early Childhood Planning Task Force in May 2013. The Task Force was charged with creating a development plan for West Virginia’s early childhood system. A 10-year plan for improving early childhood programs, financing and governance was completed in September 2014. The Task Force partnered with the state’s Early Childhood Advisory Council on the creation of the plan. More than 1,200 West Virginians provided input through community forums, stakeholder discussions, study groups, an online survey, and key informant interviews.

Testimonials

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After hearing from nonprofits around the state that one of their greatest needs was to learn how to collaborate with other nonprofits, businesses, and government within their communities, the West Virginia Nonprofit Association reached out to Bruce Decker to facilitate 4 regional trainings on Building Bridges for Community Impact. The day long workshops were a good balance of content and group engagement. Bruce addressed the ‘nuts and bolts’ of collaboration, and then wove in ‘real life’ group exercises that resulted in preliminary partnerships and regional action plans on issues relevant to each community. His facilitation skills kept the participants engaged. He offered new information, fresh ideas, and taught participants new skills for strategic planning. It was a great experience to work with Bruce and I look forward to tapping into his expertise in the years ahead. ~ Laura Lee Haddad, Executive Director, West Virginia Nonprofit Association, Lewisburg, WV

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As the Athletic Director and head coach of the Varsity Soccer team at Ryerson University, Dr. Joseph is often asked what skills he is searching for as a recruiter: is it speed? Strength? Agility? In Dr. Joseph's TEDx Talk, he explores self confidence and how it is not just the most important skill in athletics, but in our lives. Click here to view!

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