Collective Impacy Approach: A Case Study

Chronic and complex problems require a collective approach with a shared vision and goals, and collaborative effort in the same direction. The selected collective impacy approach is based on the belief that no single policy, public department, organizaiton or program can decipher and solve the seriously complex community issues and problems. The approach calls for multiple organizations and entities from different sectors to abandon their own narrowly limited agenda in favor of a collaborative agenda, shared assessments and evaluations and alignment of resources, expertise, and united effort. The envisioned collective impact initiatives have a centralized infrastructure with dedicated staff whose role is to help participation organizations …show more content…
that in the near future there will be 80,000 unfilled jobs because of an unprepared workforce. despite recent resources being earmarked for low-income communities in workforce development and training, we still see a seriously large gap. there is a breach in communication and sharing of information and opportunities available for low-income communities.

therefore, CEA actively participates and is building collective impact initiative within the 6 neighborhoods with high rates of unemployment, lack of homeownership, and low median income. the collaborations are to begin to address workforce development and training needs and particularly providing opportunities through education and outreach to the community of all availbale training within the area. …show more content…
major goals of this initiative are to generate create a common agenda by coming together to collectively define the problem and create a shared vision to solve it; specify the selected issues problems together and create establish cross sectional and common evaluative assessments which allow for tracking of major progress as well as challenges; strategically revise and continually improve community wide impact and achieve desirable