T HE C ENTER FOR C OLLABORATIVE C HANGE Making Newark Thrive
• Our goal is to alleviate poverty and fuel a cycle of opportunity in our city and beyond.
About Us • The Center for Collaborative Change connects people, ideas and resources to make Newark thrive. • The mission of the Center for Collaborative Change is to engage community members and assist civic leadership in developing policies and programs in order to accelerate Newark’s revitalization while ensuring an inclusive process. • The collaborative change model is premised on the idea that if efforts are better designed and aligned to address the city’s most pressing needs, the effects of these investments will multiply, ultimately making Newark thrive.
Our Opportunity With its energy, tenacity, diversity, and promise , Newark, NJ, has access to the resources and expertise it needs to transform into a place of health, safety and opportunity for all .
Why We Exist Newark is “ resource-rich, but collaboration-poor .” • Change efforts are too infrequently based upon data- • driven needs assessments and evidence-based practices. Community members often feel that they have not been • consulted before change efforts are set in motion, breeding skepticism and hostility toward otherwise well- intentioned efforts.
• To get there, we need to focus on the things that matter most to people and that have the greatest potential for saving and improving their lives. • Then, we need to invest in high impact solutions that harness the unique assets of our community to meet those unique community needs.
Specifically, we do four things. • A ssess community needs and assets • B uild solutions through research and innovation • C onnect ideas, people and resources to implement these solutions • D evelop opportunities for civic participation
A. NEEDS ASSESSMENTS • A ssess community needs and assets The Center believes that Newark must invest in solutions to issues that people care most about and in interrupting the cycle of poverty, violence and disinvestment that holds our city back. That’s why the first element of the Collaborative Change model is to synthesize community-level data with stakeholder insights . This allows us to identify priority issues for which there is the greatest community need, the political will for change, and the potential to fuel a cycle of opportunity in our city.
C OMMUNITY Y OUTH M APPING 2012 making Newark thrive
Best Things
... in their own words What are the best things about Newark? • "The attempt people make to bring the community closer and change the negative view of Newark" • "The pride the residents exude about their city despite the crime and negativity. The City pride is unconditional" • "The hard working children of this community" • "Teachers, schools, helpers and people who give back" • "I see more police on the streets and new buildings being built"
What are best things in Newark? Youth Insight Charts
Biggest Problems 90% Biggest 57% problem - frequency overall
2009 Needs Assessment Survey
UNDER THE HOOD • Finance & Development • Operations & Administration • Governance & Leadership • Relationship Management & Communications
FINANCE & DEVELOPMENT Goal: Increased financial stability and security. Objective (Finance): Establish and maintain effective systems for monitoring and improving financial management. Objective (Development): Secure and sustain adequate funding to deliver high-impact, high-quality programming.
BUSINESS MODEL A. Needs Assessment • Grants, donations, revenues from B & D B. Research & Innovation • Sponsorships, tickets, grants for annual Best Practices Summit C. Collaborative Implementation • Individual or collective grants, PSEG partnership (Action Lab) • Exploring corporate donations/sponsorships for volunteering/talent-on-loan aspect D. Civic Engagement • Contracts
Innovation Matrix
Building Collaborative Solutions to Make Newark Thrive: Our Method • Comprehensively and inclusively assess local needs, assets & systems, and • Identify community priorities and potential for impact . Assess • Research and define the issue , partners, and parameters, and • Design an iterative path to creating collaborative, sustainable solutions or Design system changes . • Build and execute in-house, • Broker and manage external partners & pro bono teams, or • Incubate and support the development of new solutions. Implement • Measure and evaluate impact and progress of solutions. • Refine and make course corrections. Improve • Build capacity and broker sustainable supports for implementing partner(s). • Get out of the way : wrap up, embed, or spin off. Sustain
Building Collaborative Solutions to Make Newark Thrive: Our Products What We Make What We Do Insight, data, reports • Needs, assets, systems, priorities and impact . Assess • Comprehensive Needs Assessment • Community Police Relations Surveys • Research, define and design what • Master Plan Civic Engagement needs to be done. Design • Build , Collaborative, sustainable • Broker , or solutions or system changes • Incubate solutions. Implement to make Newark thrive! • Measure • Strong Healthy Communities Initiative • Evaluate • NPS Expanded Learning Time Initiative • Refine Improve • CDBG Optimization Project • Build capacity • Newark Action Lab • Support • Hand off Sustain • Newark Change Brokerage
What We Do What We Make Results Insight Individuals • Needs, assets, Thrive! systems, priorities and Health Assess impact . Information, • Research, Education data, define and design what reports needs to be Design done. Economic Opportunity • Build , Communities • Broker , or Thrive! • Incubate Implement solutions. Trust Solutions • Measure Engage- Collaborative, • Evaluate ment sustainable • Refine Improve solutions or Institutions system Thrive! changes to Efficiency • Build capacity make Newark • Support thrive! • Hand off Sustain Effective- ness
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