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Our Process
Our process guides state and local organizations through designing and implementing an effective initiative, informed by communities’ needs.
Our Process
Our process guides state and local organizations through designing and implementing an effective initiative, informed by communities’ needs.
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Discovery
The first step to creating sustainable change is knowing your starting point. We work with state and local organizations to get a better understanding of communities’ needs and statewide opportunities. We use the information to make recommendations about ways to work, learn, and create together to reach shared goals.
State Landscape Scan
Discover what’s currently happening at the state-level, and what opportunities are available. State partners share information about organizations, including their existing programs, policies, priority areas, local networks, reach, data sources, training, and funding.
Coffective can support with:
State partner identification & engagement
Facilitated state partner meetings
Program information gathering
State partner profiles
Local Landscape Scan
What’s going on at the local-level? Hearing local perspectives early in the process ensures a complete picture of communities’ needs and organizations’ interests are incorporated into state-level decision-making. Learn about local needs, priorities, successes, and challenges. Discover local organizations’ interest in and capacity for working, learning, and creating with others.
Coffective can support with:
Community group identification & engagement
Identifying gaps in tools, training, and activities
Local network surveys & interviews
Inventory of tools, training, and activities
Gauging local interest in participating in initiative
Local network report
Landscape Opportunity Analysis
Put all that information to use! Based on the landscape scan(s), we provide an analysis that state partners can use to further align their efforts as well as to plan initiatives.
The analysis can include recommendations on opportunities for:
Program alignment
Solutions (bundled tools, training, and activities)
Collaborative planning
Initiative focus area(s)
Community voice integration
Funding
Initiative Design
Now that you have a starting point, decide where you want to go and how you want to get there. We offer guidance on designing an actionable initiative that helps organizations make true progress toward overall goals by working, learning, and creating together.
Implementation Design
Goals are achievable with a clear plan of action and resources to help execute that plan. Using insights from the Discovery phase, state partners can plan how their initiative will be implemented. This includes selecting solutions (bundles of existing and/or not-yet-created tools, training, and activities) customized to communities’ needs.
Coffective can support state partners in working together on:
Focus area(s) selection
Implementation strategy selection
Solution (tools, training, and activities) creation
Workplan and timeline development
Evaluation Design
Ensure your initiative is effectively and continually making progress toward its intended impact by designing a valid, adaptable, and equitable evaluation strategy.
Coffective can assist with:
Custom measurement strategy development
Logic model & evaluation plan creation
Funding Design
It’s important to make sure initiative efforts and progress don’t stop with the end of a fiscal cycle. Determining how to engage community, state, and national funders now will help expand offerings, scale efforts, and create sustainable impact into the future.
Coffective can support with:
Funding opportunity & timeline identification
Grant application language writing
Implementation
Turn your plans into action! Here is where organizations bring their initiative to life with the support of Coffective and each other. The ultimate goal of this phase is to support communities in achieving shared goals by providing the tools, training, and activities they need to effectively work, learn, and create together.
Tools, Training, and Activities
Resources make implementing an initiative possible and creating lasting change achievable. Local organizations use the selected solutions — bundles of tools, training, and activities — to make progress toward focus area goals.
Coffective can provide:
Solutions (tools, training, and activities)
Implementation technical assistance
Working Together
We support community, government, and clinical organizations in developing partnerships and coordinating their efforts to ensure their services are creating positive, sustained change for their communities.
Coffective can help organizations in working together with the support of:
Community Match
Community partnership technical assistance
Local organization profiles
Collaborative activity toolkits
Learning Together
Many communities are already making great progress toward their goals. We promote scaling these successes by helping share communities’ evidence-based tools, training, and activities. We also coach communities on how to incorporate lessons into their own work.
Coffective can facilitate organizations in learning together through:
One-on-one technical assistance calls
Collaborative of peer-to-peer learning
State & regional sharing webinars
How We Did It
Communities of practice
Mentor-mentee pairings
Creating Together
The Discovery phase uncovered missing tools, training, and activities as well as organizations’ interest in helping fill those gaps. Here is where local organizations can co-create new solutions or adapt existing solutions to meet communities’ specific needs.
Coffective can help with:
Tool, training, and activity co-creation
Tool, training, and activity adaptation
Evaluation
Data is about more than numbers. Use stories and opinions from the community alongside numbers to create a complete data story and fully understand the efficacy of your efforts. Assess data throughout implementation so adjustments can be made based on changing needs and new insights.
Coffective can provide:
Shared quantitative / qualitative database
Data analysis and stratification by race/ethnicity
Data collection solutions
Interim initiative report