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
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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!