What is a Place-Based Partnership?

Overview

New to place-based partnerships work and want to learn how to bring your community together to drive change? This learning journey, Onboarding for Collaborative Improvement, explores the fundamentals that allow communities to work together to get better results.

Onboarding for Collaborative Improvement Learning Journey

Overview

How can we work together for a better future for everyone? This three-course journey explores the fundamentals that allow communities to work together to get better results. You will learn key methods for starting and sustaining collaborative work, the role that backbone organizations play in keeping a community aligned, and how to identify and engage the right partners to start making an impact. 

You should embark on this learning journey if you want to:  

• Understand the core principles of collaborative improvement 
• Explore ways to engage in shared learning 
• Align action towards better outcomes  

Courses in this learning journey include: 

• Introduction to Collaborative Improvement: The Essentials  
• What is a Backbone?  
• Engaging Partners in the Work 

What is a learning journey? 

Learning journeys are a curated collection of self-paced courses, designed to help you move from understanding to action on key concepts needed to improve outcomes in a community. As you work through the courses, you will gain the fundamental knowledge that will lead you to application and deeper insight. If you want to dive even deeper, sign up for an optional quarterly live session to talk through what you’re learning and applying with peers and subject matter experts. 

1. Introduction to Collaborative Improvement

1. Introduction to Collaborative Improvement: The Essentials

How can you create a collaborative plan to expand opportunities for all youth in your community? This mini course provides an overview of collaborative improvement. In the collaborative improvement,  a process where teams test new ideas, observe the impact of their actions and use data to make adjustments. This approach uses Results Count methodology, continuous improvement principles and human-centered design, with an explicit focus on how to positively impact all members of your community. Join this course to build your awareness and understanding of core collaborative improvement techniques.

2. What is a Backbone?

2. What is a Backbone?

The backbone is the core of a place-based partnership. It consists of essential staff and structures of a partnership and fulfills several core functions, ensures accountability across the partnership, and helps to implement and lead the work. This course is an important early step in building your understanding of how to build civic infrastructure.

3. Engaging Partners in Place-Based Work

3. Engaging Partners in Place-Based Work

Place-based partnerships thrive when they have strong partners collaborating and engaged in their work. Join this self-paced mini course to learn tools and techniques to identify the right partners and communicate with them about their essential roles. You’ll explore the best way to engage these key partners in collectively placing more youth on a path to economic mobility.