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Webinar: Cultivating Local Collective Impact Capacity Through Place-Based Philanthropy

16Jan2019
Hosting Organization: 
Tamarack Institute
When: 
Wednesday, January 16, 2019
12:00pm - 1:00pm EST
Where: 
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The ability for local leaders from diverse sectors to work together to address their shared challenges and to realize an inspiring - and shared - community vision is a defining characteristic of successful, resilient communities. Place matters, and ensuring that cross-sector leaders have the skills, capabilities and a shared approach for translating their shared vision into a set of high-impact strategies is often overlooked as an essential investment, yet it is foundational to the long-term success of any community change effort.

For the past five years, The Rider-Pool Foundation, a locally-based philanthropist in Allentown Pennsylvania, has been investing in a deliberate effort to build collective impact capacity amongst a diverse cross-section of their community’s leaders.  This webinar will profile the early results of Rider-Pool’s Collective Impact Fellows Initiative. 

Join guests Ron Dendas and Ed Meehan of The Rider-Pool Foundation as they share the thinking behind this innovative and intentional investment in the “how” of Collective Impact and how it has been a catalyst for innovative community initiatives that are having a positive impact on the well-being of their community.  Hear about the lessons being learned from the CI Fellows’ Initiative and some early thoughts of what’s next as this investment in innovation and learning continues to evolve. 

They will be joined by webinar host, Sylvia Cheuy, Consulting Director of the Tamarack Institute's Collective Impact Idea Area. Together, they will share the thinking behind this innovative and intentional investment in the "how" of Collective Impact and how it has been a catalyst for innovative community initiatives that are having a positive impact on the well-being of their community. Hear about the lessons being learned from the CI Fellows' Initiative and some early thoughts of what's next as this investment in innovation and learning continues to evolve.

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