Special InitiativesCampus- and Community-Wide Engagement

What We’ll Cover

•High-Impact Initiative

•Community Networking Corps

•PolicyOptions.org

How We Innovate!

✤ “From best practice to common practice”

✤ Experiment✤ Refine✤ Define best practice✤ Spread

Motivation for High-Impact Initiative

✤ Change and pressure in non-profit landscape

✤ Shrinking resources✤ Increased focus on evidence and impact

✤ An aim to move programs to the next level, towards impact

Motivation for High-Impact Initiative

✤ Crisis and change in higher education

✤ Proven program model✤ Need for staff and faculty development

✤ A hope to mobilize teams for institutional change

What is the High-Impact Initiative?

✤ A strategic initiative to amplify high-impact practices by connecting them to high-impact community engagement

✤ A cohort based developmental program model

Building a national learning community

✤ An aim to leverage knowledge and best practices from the Bonner Program and Network, as well as the field more broadly

Why Link HIPs and HICEPs?✤ To show how all high impact practices can be linked ✤ To drive institutionalization of community engagement✤ To promote institutional and community change

Design and carry out high-

impact projects and mobilize institutional and community

change

Faculty

PartnersStudents

Staff

Transformation Teams

A 3+ Year Developmental Strategy

Year 1• Strategic planning

• Build team • Data collection• Identify assets• Attend institute• Select & do first

projects

Year 2• Expand team & participation

• Attend institute• Select & do next two projects• Document and share learning

Year 3•Attend institute

• Sustainability vision & plan

• Refine projects and institutional changes• Begin to implement impact assessment

Year 4 and beyond...continue to participation in national learning community

To get involved✤ Invitations in August✤ President’s Letter by

November✤ Team leader and team by

December ✤ Meet two times prior to

March Planning Retreat✤ Attend Planning Retreat✤ Attend Institute with

potential projects

Direct Action (service)

Capacity Building

Convening

CBR

Policy News & Analysis

Community Info Hub

0% 25% 50% 75% 100%Need / Highly Need Occurring

PARTNER NEEDS47%

92%

19%89%

87%

85%

92%

88%34%

24%

25%

28%

Community Networking TeamsBuilding Capacity for Collective Impact

What non-profit groups or networks work in your cities or states?

What makes agood network good?

What makes a weak network weak?

from “Building Smart Communities through Network Weaving” by Valdis Krebs and June Holley © 2002-2006

The goal iscollective impact

CollaborativeInitiative

Network

WorkgroupCommittee

Alliance

Commission

Partnership Coalition

Council

Trenton, NJ |Map

How can campuses help?

Campus Assetsfor Community Networking

• we already partner with a wide range of local groups

• we are considered neutral for the most part

• we have useful networking skills in: ‣ organizing and facilitating meetings, ‣ doing research, ‣ using the internet to communicate and

coordinate

Roles Students Can Play(with networking support)

• Administrative support

• Assist in managing meetings (space, invitations, minutes)

• Set-up and maintain online networking (listervs, wikis)

• Conduct research:✓ Model programs & best practices✓ Funding sources (finding upcoming grants)✓ Data collection and analysis (local and state statistics)✓ Conduct original research as needed (e.g., surveys, oral

histories, etc.)

• Organize social media outreach (Facebook, Twitter)

Network the NetworksAfter-School School Breakfast

Healthy Kids

Youth Employment

Juvenile Crime

Single Groups Collective Action

Community Networking Team

CommunityNetworking

Corps

MeetingsResearch

TechnologyFundraising

Occasional Volunteers(1x)

Regular Volunteers(weekly)

TeamLeaders

Site/Issue-Based Team

Bonner Foundation Support• share models of network weaving, esp.

those involving campuses/students

• develop technical trainings for students on meeting facilitation, setting up wikis, managing listservs, etc.

• network our campuses piloting this approach

• What information do you need? • Where do you find it?• Challenges?

PolicyOptions.orgCommunity Information Hub

Planned FeaturesCommunity Calendar

Community Listserv

Customized Email News Digest

Sub-categorization

Digests

Begin!

Staffing needed?

Student

Student+

4-8 hours per week

1 hour

Faculty or Staff

PolicyOptions Guides

Begin!