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Identify Community Stewards

Introduction
Introduction Identify a wicked problem or engage the community Define your community Identify Drivers and Resisters Identify Community Stewards Identify a Backbone Organisation Identify and recruit your Action Team Choose a Collaborative Leader (within the Action Team) Undertake a new member skills survey Build community momentum Keep the momentum for change The action team will change too Gather information
Introduction Vision setting Values Setting Goals (starting with the end in mind) Choosing projects Turning plans into action Project management Finding funds and resources Advocacy
Introduction Measuring if (and where) change has occurred or not Celebrating success & identifying the lessons learned Systemising new processes and best practices Publicising the successes and lessons learned Measuring how well the Action Team has performed Skilling up new Action Team members and leaders

Be A Partner

“A leader is like a shepherd. He stays behind the flock, letting the most nimble go ahead, whereupon the others will follow, not realising that all along they are being directed from behind.”

—Nelson Mandela

Another important source of Action Team members in a Community Led Impact Partnership centres on the concept of stewardship. Community Stewards are integrators who cross boundaries of jurisdiction, sector and discipline to address complex regional issues. They see the connections between economic, environmental and social concerns and know how to “connect the dots” to improve their regions.

Community Stewards build support from leaders, citizens, interest groups and policy professionals in government, business, education, community sector and the public. They build a shared regional vision; they are coalition builders.

Stewardship supports the assumptions of a cooperative world; it replaces competition with collaboration, self-interest with service. It asks us to care more about the impact of a community led project than about self-interest.

Think about who are the stewards in your community who might put the project above the self-interest of individual organisations or careers. They might NOT be the obvious high profile leaders one normally thinks of. They might not be people with important titles.

Whoever you see as Community Stewards, they WILL be important given that a community led project by definition is about doing something good for the whole of the “community”.

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