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Who We Are

Collective Impact, LLC provides capacity building services to help organizations and communities thrive. Our network was formed to provide organizations and communities with comprehensive consulting, media, and technology resources that strengthen their ability to achieve their mission.

Since 2001, Collective Impact has been helping organizations and communities build capacity. Capacity is the ability or power to do something or get things accomplished. We define capacity building as “strategies or solutions that empower organizations and communities to operate more effectively and efficiently.”

Collective Impact uses a strengths-based approach in building capacity. Organizations and communities often focus on their problems or needs. We believe that those we serve have great strengths to build upon. We see our role as helping identify and maximize those strengths by using an approach that emphasizes resources and capabilities. This approach is reflected throughout our values and operating principles.

Collective Impact is not only the name of our consulting firm, but it is also our overall philosophy and approach that we use with all of our clients in every project with which we are involved. It is our guiding principle that directs how we collectively with our clients, interact, perform and succeed.

Our Vision

Collective Impact's vision is "for organizations and communities to thrive." Our vision is the ultimate state that we are working towards. We exist to help realize our vision.

We believe that successful organizations and communities have the following characteristics:

Collaborative leadership – This refers to the belief that leaders exist at all levels of an organization or community. Collaborative leaders demonstrate high levels of trust, achieve team work, and are willing to give something up for the greater good.
Effective and efficient infrastructure – This includes those things that make organizations and communities function well, such as proactive communication, continuous learning, financial integrity, data-driven decision-making, etc.
Innovative action – This refers to the implementation of “out-of-the-box” ideas, processes, tools, and solutions to achieve greater results.
Favorable market presence – This includes strong images and positive public opinion of organizations and communities and their efforts.
High social capital – This refers to the connections and networks that exist within and among organizations and communities and the value that these hold for their members.
Continuous learning – This consists of on-going assessment and evaluation of organizations and communities to identify more effective and efficient ways of operating.
“Thrivable” development – This refers to the ability of organizations and communities to exist beyond basic sustainability by getting the most out of their resources to achieve the greatest impact possible.

Our Mission

Collective Impact's mission is "to build capacity with organizations and communities to help them achieve their mission, realize their vision and thrive."

Our mission directs our efforts in working with clients and serves as a guide for achieving our vision.

For more information, contact us at:

Telephone: 724.728.3368

E-mail: emailus@collectiveimpact.com

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What's New

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Collective Impact is working with the West Virginia Autism Training Center(WVATC) for the development and delivery of team building training services. Collective Impact, LLC, will assist WV ATC in the provision of desired training services.

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For the fourth year, Collective Impact coordinated the CommunityWorks in West Virginia's Affordable Housing Internship Program with twelve interns participating in the 2013 cohort. Over the summer, college students worked with diverse housing and housing related organizations across the state for 12 weeks of intensive service where they experienced a variety of learning activities.

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"The Indiana County Department of Human Services has been a long time customer of Collective Impact; we have used their branding communication and Venue Internet services (website) for over fifteen years. The website is very easy to manage and to make changes to. More importantly, our customers tell us how easy it is to navigate our website to search our human services directory (by topic or name) or find our flyers and brochures. The few times that we've had problems, the Collective Impact team is quick to respond to correct any issues. We've also contracted with Collective Impact for project evaluation. The cost is reasonable, their time and commitment to the project is sufficient and the outcome is a quality report." ~ Bonni S. Dunlap, Ph.D. – Director, Indiana County Department of Human Services

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