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THE CENTER FOR COLLABORATIVE CHANGE

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.

• Assess community needs and assets
• Build solutions through research and innovation
• Connect ideas, people and resources to implement

these solutions

• Develop opportunities for civic participation

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.

• A. NEEDS ASSESSMENTS

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.

• Assess community needs and assets

COMMUNITY YOUTH MAPPING

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"

Youth Insight Charts

What are best things in Newark?

Biggest Problems

Biggest problem

• frequency
• verall

90% 57%

2009 Needs Assessment Survey

• Finance & Development
• Operations & Administration
• Governance & Leadership
• Relationship Management

& Communications

UNDER THE HOOD

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

Assess

• Comprehensively and inclusively assess local needs, assets & systems, and
• Identify community priorities and potential for impact.

Design

• Research and define the issue, partners, and parameters, and
• Design an iterative path to creating collaborative, sustainable solutions or

system changes.

Implement

• Build and execute in-house,
• Broker and manage external partners & pro bono teams, or
• Incubate and support the development of new solutions.

Improve

• Measure and evaluate impact and progress of solutions.
• Refine and make course corrections.

Sustain

• Build capacity and broker sustainable supports for implementing partner(s).
• Get out of the way: wrap up, embed, or spin off.

Building Collaborative Solutions to Make Newark Thrive: Our Method

Assess

• Needs, assets,

systems, priorities and impact.

Design

• Research, define

and design what needs to be done.

Implement

• Build,
• Broker, or
• Incubate solutions.

Improve

• Measure
• Evaluate
• Refine

Sustain

• Build capacity
• Support
• Hand off

Insight, data, reports

Collaborative, sustainable solutions or system changes to make Newark thrive!

Building Collaborative Solutions to Make Newark Thrive: Our Products

What We Do What We Make

• Comprehensive Needs Assessment
• Community Police Relations Surveys
• Master Plan Civic Engagement
• Strong Healthy Communities Initiative
• NPS Expanded Learning Time Initiative
• CDBG Optimization Project
• Newark Action Lab
• Newark Change Brokerage

Insight Solutions Information, data, reports Collaborative, sustainable solutions or system changes to make Newark thrive!

Health Education

Economic Opportunity

Individuals Thrive! Trust

Engage- ment

Communities Thrive!

Efficiency Effective- ness Institutions Thrive!

Assess

• Needs, assets,

systems, priorities and impact.

Design

• Research,

define and design what needs to be done.

Implement

• Build,
• Broker, or
• Incubate

solutions.

Improve

• Measure
• Evaluate
• Refine

Sustain

• Build capacity
• Support
• Hand off

What We Do What We Make Results