2019 Collective Impact Symposium

Join us for a day of inspiration and action focused on how cross-sector partnerships can help to address Lane County's pressing challenges: high school graduation, literacy, kindergarten readiness, and family health & stability.

Participants from the business, public, and nonprofit sectors are invited to attend!

8:00 AM - Registration & Continental Breakfast

8:30 AM - Welcoming Remarks & Keynote Address
Collective Impact: Moving from Vision to Implementation

Jennifer Splansky-Juster

Executive Director, FSG Collective Impact Forum

Jennifer Splansky Juster has over 15 years of social sector leadership experience, including advising foundations, NGOs, and partnerships on issues related to strategy, evaluation, and the design of collective impact initiatives.

Over the course of her career, Jennifer has also worked with a range of foundations, nonprofits, government agencies, and corporations across sectors on issues of strategy, evaluation, and program design. Former clients include the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the David and Lucile Packard Foundation.

Junious Williams, Jr.
Senior Consultant, FSG Collective Impact Forum

Mr. Williams is the principal of Junious Williams Consulting Inc. (JWC), a firm specializing in research, policy analysis, collaboration facilitation, program development, and assessment focused on increasing equity and social justice. He has worked extensively over the past 25 years on a variety of multi-stakeholder, multi-sector collaborations providing guidance and support in design, implementation, and program improvement for initiatives spanning issues from full-service community schools to cradle-to-career pathways; from opportunity youth education and employment to improving outcomes for boys and men of color.

10:15 AM - Micro Talks

Local voices blend content expertise with public knowledge to share perspectives on the state of our community and opportunities to engage in efforts to make progress towards United Way's four priority outcomes:

Family health & stability
Kindergarten readiness
Elementary school success
Youth productivity

11:30 AM - Local Collective Impact panel

Conversational panel discussion with representatives of Lane County Collective Impact initiatives.

12:00 PM - Collective Impact Poster Session

Featuring Collective Impact initiatives from throughout Lane County, presented during the lunch hour. Initiatives include 15th Night, Connected Lane County, Siuslaw Vision, Lane Early Learning Alliance, Healthy Homes, and Live Healthy Lane.

1:15 PM - Breakout Sessions

Evaluation - Getting to What Matters. Presented by Steve Patty, PhD, Dialogues in Action

All of us who work with people need a way to both prove and improve our impact in the lives of those we serve. We need data to demonstrate what we are doing is making a difference. We also need data to show us how to get better. We need better ways to evaluate what really matters.

Too often, however, evaluation fails to give us a crisp and clear picture of impact. It is frequently burdensome, perfunctory, and unwieldy - a chore to perform, not an exciting and incisive discovery of the keys to causing human impact. We tend to measure the wrong things in the wrong ways, making our evaluation inert and tiresome. How do we make our evaluation better?

Based on the work of over a decade of capacity-building with hundreds of programs and agencies across North America, this workshop will provide innovative thinking and proven techniques to help us prove and improve our impact.

Collective Impact and Corporate Social Responsibility. Moderated by Elena Fracchia, Columbia Bank. Panelists include Brittany Quick-Warner (Eugene Chamber of Commerce), Shelly Galvin (CBT Nuggets), Christopher Martin (PenFed Credit Union), and Greg Erwin (Sapient Wealth Management).

How can engaging with Collective Impact initiatives strengthen your Corporate Social Responsibility efforts?

For some businesses and industries, Collective Impact represents a new way of engaging with the nonprofit community: a strong focus on shared metrics, mutually reinforcing activities rather than isolated efforts, and cross-sector partnerships oriented towards a common agenda.

Panelists reflect on how the private sector's unique assets can be leveraged to catalyze and bolster collective efforts in Lane County.

Public Sector Partnerships and Collective Impact. Moderated by Pat Farr, Lane County Board of Commissioners. Panelists include Dr. Gustavo Balderas (Superintendent, Eugene 4J), Jacqueline Moreno (Lane County Public Health), Selene Jaramillo (Lane County Public Health) and Randi Bowers-Payne (City of Eugene).

What role can the public sector play in Collective Impact efforts?

From providing operational “backbone” support to advocating for policy change and raising community awareness, public sector players are positioned to help advance broad-ranging, systemic efforts to address community challenges.

Panelists share insights and lessons learned from involvement in local Collective Impact initiatives.

3:00 PM - Ideas to Action

Using Open Space Technology, participants will have the opportunity to self-organize around questions of shared interest that have come up during the day. Participants can volunteer to host a topic discussion, join a conversation hosted by another participant, or float between multiple topics. No grouping is too big or too small.

Outcomes will be documented and shared out following the Open Space session.

4:00 PM - Closing & Reflections

4:30 - Reception / Happy Hour at The Fir

Registration closes November 12th