Collective Impact/Coalition Building
Collaborative design and implementation of lean operational infrastructures that build organizational capacity to support cross-sector actions driving systems level change.
Our Approach
Establishing the Common Agenda
Critical to any coalition is developing a shared understanding of the goal and theory of change. To establish their common agenda, we guide collectives through a process that engages a broad set of stakeholders including people with the lived experience of the core issue. Through this work they build a framework for continual learning about the influencers in the system.
Implementing the Infrastructure
The collective creates the infrastructure needed to support their work through a guided process that results in governance agreements, relationship management systems and metrics. The development of the theories of change lead to formation of work groups and plans for action. All elements of infrastructure include explicit equitable practices that embed the uplifting of lived experience experts in the work of the collective.
Human Capabilities
Stakeholders identify system barriers.
Sustaining and Renewing
Backbone organizations support the collective through systems for nurturing engagement, ensuring equity, and staying in action. Ongoing measures hold the collective accountable to their commitment to systems change and drive continuous learning and adapting for increased impact.
Fullfilling a crucial role
Strategy Arts helped us define equity as it pertains to our collective work across these diverse economic and cultural landscapes. They not only helped our stakeholders examine and analyze our communities’ baseline data, but also created a list of considerations that will help guide our future actions. We now know that we have their reliable, strategic and thoughtful expertise in our back pocket for future planning and collaboration.
– Beth Parker, MS.Ed
Assistant Director, Minus 9 to 5
Stakeholder Research
Tailored stakeholder research that helps internal and external stakeholders provide the in depth perspectives that build organizational knowledge, inform strategic decision making, and guide product design.
Market and Competitor Analysis
Strategic messaging, branding, and communications planning to build long-term brand value and authentically communicate customer/consumer value.
Analytics and Data Synthesis
Data analysis and visualization to provide actionable information from complex research findings and stakeholder data.
Stakeholder Research
Trust building research approaches that captures in-depth perspectives from internal and external stakeholders to build organizational knowledge, inform strategic decision-making, and guide product design.
Systems Change Analysis
Map and define the complex system of a problem and then plot theories that can make meaningful changes in people's lives
Meeting and Convening Logistics
Meeting logistics that create safe meeting environments and provide participant supports to ensure participants are treated equitably and can focus on meeting discussions
Meeting Facilitation
Comprehensive meeting planning, facilitating, and documentation focusing on meeting process, content and engaging participant experiences to ensure meeting goals are achieved.
Project Planning & Management
Project team inclusive planning coupled with simple implementation tools for ongoing project management.
Workflow Focused Product Innovation
Customer inclusive research to map existing workflows, ideate ways to improve them, and discover unseen opportunities to create customer value through new product innovation.
