Collaboration for Impact to Offer 1 Million in Support to Australian Community

 Collaboration for Impact, a Catalyzing Group consisting of Result Leadership Group USA, Centre for Social Impact, Westpac Foundation, Social Solutions Group,  Blackbaud Pacific, Social Ventures Australia, Australian Communities Foundation Impact Collective has recently launched The Search—a new initiative offering $1 million in support to an Australian Community working to address the country’s biggest challenges. To receive funding, communities will demonstrate a strategy to address the chosen problems, utilizing the Collective Impact framework.

As part of its funding, Clear Impact will be providing Clear Impact Scorecard™ software training to the finalists—training which will form an integral part of the ‘shared measurement’ component of the Collective Impact framework.

Collaboration for Impact has released a video explaining The Search initiative and how communities can apply:

After a staged nine-month capacity building application process, one community will be selected from ten finalists to receive up to $1 million in funding and resources over a three year period. In addition to acting as a ‘lighthouse’ example for future Collective Impact Initiatives, the selected community will  transform the way that Australian Communities work together to solve issues like poverty, alcohol related violence, homelessness, youth unemployment, and childhood obesity— through the adoption of the socially innovative Collective Impact framework.

The Collective Impact approach is premised on the idea that no single organization or policy is enough to combat complex social problems. The framework is a structured approach to making collaboration work across government, business, philanthropy, non-profits, and citizens by calling for the abandonment of separate agendas in favor of a common agenda, shared measurement, and alignment of effort.

All interested applicants need to submit an Expression of Interest Online by Wednesday September 17^th by 5pm AEST.

Click Clear Impact Scorecard™ to learn more about the software and how it can assist with collaborative problem-solving efforts.

To learn more about The Search initiative and how to apply, please click here.

To learn more about the Collaboration for Impact and how the Collective Impact framework works to improve communities, click here.