If you've been involved in a major infrastructure project in the last ten years, chances are you've been asked to consider its social impact. For engineers and technical specialists, this can be a daunting task since many of the rules and the tools you've been trained to rely on simply don't apply.
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One of the things I like best about building workshops is the discipline required to sort what I believe to be true into words and boxes that make sense to other kinds of thinkers.
This week, I helped deliver a workshop on corporate social risk for engineers and geoscientists who create large infrastructure and resource projects.
What is Collective Impact and how does it work?
Broadly defined, Collective Impact is an approach to social challenges that are too complex for one organization to address on its own.
Through the Collective Impact process, multiple organizations work together to achieve big goals like feeding the hungry, increasing literacy and finding homes for the homeless.
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What is it we hope for?
More than 40 leaders have come together to create an immigration strategy that bridges regional differences and delivers economic and social benefits to new Canadians and communities.
Using a Collective Impact approach to strategic planning, the group collaborated to answer the question: “What is it we hope for?” and identify three key conditions they want to change.
