How Innoweave Can Help Your Organization Generate Greater Impact
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Innoweave is designed to assist organizations in enhancing their impact through social innovation, addressing challenges such as financial pressures and the need for measurable outcomes. It offers various resources including webinars, workshops, and coaching to guide nonprofits in clarifying their impact goals and developing effective strategies. The program aims to foster collective impact and innovative approaches to achieve significant community changes over a defined timeline.
How Innoweave Can Help Your Organization Generate Greater Impact
- 1. How Innoweave Can Help Your Organization Generate Greater Impact September 23rd, 2015 Hosted by CanadaHelps
- 2. J.W. McConnell Family Foundation • 75 year-old national family foundation • Member of Social Innovation Generation (SiG) • Focus on enabling innovative environment for community organizations to thrive • Launched Innoweave two and a half years ago to help nonprofits implement social innovation approaches
- 3. 3 Challenges for our sector (everywhere)… • Financial pressures o Years of slow growth economy o Government deficits o Slow growing charitable donor base • Outcomes o Performance based o Evidence based o Creativity o Leverage private funding o Partnerships and innovation o Accountability
- 4. … and emerging opportunities • New ways to generate or use money to generate outcomes o Social Enterprise and Social Procurement o Social Finance • Networks and Multi-sectoral approaches o Constructive Engagement o Collective Impact o Network approaches to scale impact o New technologies and new business models o New ways of using data and measurement tools
- 5. Helping organizations across Canada
- 6. Striving for Enhanced Impact Can you clearly answer the following question? Is this vision clearly understood and shared across your organization? “What impact does our organization want to have in our community over the next 3-5 years?” Can you explain with measurable indicators: “The outcomes that we work towards are ..., we have a clear idea of how to achieve those outcomes, which is…, and we would like to refine our plan to increase even more our impact”
- 7. Your answers will guide how Innoweave can help you “What impact does our organization wish to have in our community?” • Positive and measurable change directly attributable to an organization • Specific focus on defined impact area. • Ambitious (e.g. large-scale) yet focussed. Example: organization working towards reducing homelessness: • Intended impact: reduce homelessness by 10% over 3 years in a specific community • Organization’s activity aiming at generating an impact: offer 10% more transition to housing
- 8. “The outcomes that we work towards are ... …we can clearly articulate how we expect to achieve those outcomes... …but we need to begin to learn how well our new programming is meeting new expectations…” • Effect or real, measurable change that takes place through the intervention of the organization. • Outcomes should be considered markers of success that are critical • Organizations should then be able to start developing key information points to help understand whether expectations of new programming/activities are aligned to what’s really happening Your answers will guide how Innoweave can help you
- 11. 1. Learn about each tool: web/webinars Basic web info for NFPs on each tool Recorded webinars (Scaling Impact 101)
- 12. 2. Select: Should we explore…? Ability to invest time/energy PLUS For Scaling Impact • Clear impact goals • Successful approach ready to scale • Organizational readiness For Developmental Evaluation • Clear initiative • Questions on how to develop it • Ability/resources to adapt as you go For Collective Impact • Clear impact goal • Hypothesis of how • Required partners Self Assessment Tools • 5 questions • Feedback
- 13. 3. Workshops: teams develop a plan • Leadership teams of 3-4 including board members • Well prepared • Discussion of your issues • Leading to next steps • Prepares teams for coaches and grants • Impact & Strategic Clarity: draft TOC • Social Enterprise: feasibility / business plan • Developmental Evaluation: evaluation scope of work • Collective Impact draft TOC/engagement plan
- 14. 4/5. Coaching to test and refine the plan • Network of >170 Coaches registered on innoweave.ca o Content expertise, knowledge of sector, and coaching skills o Selected by organizations o Refine scope of work / develop contract together • Small grants for organizations to hire coaches o Regular January/July deadlines o Clear idea o Clear questions that you need to answer
- 15. Benefit of Innoweave Modules (1 of 2) Impact and Strategic Clarity Collective Impact Scaling Impact Full potential (workshop/c oaching / beyond) First steps (attend a web working session / workshop) • Outcomes orientation and plan for (expanded) impact • Internal (and external) alignment • Tested with evidence • Framework for continuous learning • Framework for future decision making • Position to innovate • Communicate impact and how you achieve it • Begin to align activities around outcomes • Use early session findings as a lens in key decisions and in the design of new initiatives • Use insights to focus presentations, reports and funding proposals on direct impact and position within high level organizational theory of change
- 16. Benefit of Innoweave Modules (2 of 2) Collective Impact/ Scaling Social Enterprise Social Finance/Out comes Finance Cloud Computing / Constructive Engagement DE Full potential (workshop/c oaching / beyond) First steps (attend a web working session / workshop) Implement a new approach that directly enhances your impact (e.g. by engaging differently and/or using different financial models) • Be inspired by new approaches on webinars • Develop ‘first drafts’ in workshops that can be tested and used to communicate plans Formally evaluate, adapt, and improve as you go Clarify your innovative initiative and how you will innovate as you go
- 17. Impact and Strategic Clarity Social Finance Social Enterprise Devel’tal Evaluation Cloud Computing Collective Impact Outcomes Finance Scaling Impact Constructive Engagement Developers and Adapters Bridgespan Group Evoy and Garrow Community Forward Fund / MaRS Enterpising nonprofits CCO SiG@Wt’loo / Mark Cabaj Com’unagir Framework /Grantbook Pilote Numerique Tamarack / FSG Dynamo MaRS CII SiG@ Waterloo Sean Moore Sample of Partners PwC Vancouver CF UW Ottawa YMCA Can’da Pillar Maytree UW York Edmonton CF Trico Fnd UW Calgary UW BH CSC NFLD OCSA Trillium CCO CISED Trico UW Ottawa Sust. Net Trillium UW Calgary Sust. Net. Com’nagir UW Wpg UW Ottawa COCo Sustain. Net. Counsel. Fnd. UW Winnipeg CAROW Trico Fnd UW Calgary PwC UW Calgary Wpg UW Hamilton Victoria Sust. Net Laidlaw Fdn Ministry of Children and Youth Services (Ont.) Finance for Good MaRS CII UW Toronto CCVO ONN UW Toronto ~150 coaches listed on Innoweave.ca NACY / Imagine United Way Canada CISCO Government of Canada OTF / ONN Each module has a different set of partners
- 18. Social Innovation Micro-tools: Quick exercises -> insights -> innovation
- 19. Upcoming Webinars/Workshops Webinars (National/web-based) • Introduction to Social Enterprise, September 23 • Introduction to Impact & Strategic Clarity, September 30 • Introduction to Impact & Strategic Clarity (French), October 1 • Introduction to Developmental Evaluation (French), October 2 • Innoweave Coaches Engagement Webinar – Oct 6 • Social Enterprise Opportunity Identification, October 14 Workshops • Collective Impact – Toronto, ON, October 7 • Developmental Evaluation – Montreal, QC, October 19 • Scaling Impact – Calgary, AB, October 21 • Social Enterprise – Cambridge, ON, October 21 • Social Enterprise – National/web-based, November 17 + 19 • Cloud Computing – National/web-based, November 25 • Developmental Evaluation - National/web- based, Nov 2015 • Scaling Impact- National/web-based, Date TBD For a full list of events, please visit www.innoweave.ca/en/workshops
Editor's Notes
- #4: Financial pressures Years of slow growth economy Government deficits Competitive fundraising environment Slow growing charitable donor base New attitudes/expectations Performance based / outcomes focus Leverage private funding Partnerships and innovation Accountability
- #6: 5 seconds
- #7: (mission vs comment atteindre le succès dans un temps défini + gestion des priorités + gestion des résultats)
- #11: Short into: Who we are Introduce each of the 9 different modules– smorgus board – we’ll come back to these in more detail 5 steps – increase investment and value
- #19: Smaller scale; individual insights