5. Changing Models for Getting
Things Done?
Philanthropy
Townships Workforce
Community
Social Service Development
Cities/Towns
Neighborhood
Counties Associations
Feds
State Courts
Schools
Police
Social Service
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6. Community Change Is Getting Done
in Different Ways
We are moving
from hierarchies
to networks
7. Community Change Is Getting Done
in Different Ways
We are moving
from hierarchies
to networks
8. We Building Community by
Building Networks
Communities are built on
connections.
Better connections mean better
opportunities.
9. Two Components of a Network
Nodes Links
People, groups, Relationships,
or organizations flows, or
transactions
10. The Real Power Comes in:
Combining Assets in
New and Innovative
Ways – Linking and
Leveraging
17. Exercise 1: Framing
Appreciative Questions
Shrinking Employment BASE
Base closure
Deteriorating Infrastructure
Failing Schools
Filling Up Our Business Park
18. Medora, Indiana
Strategic Doing Case Study
Why can’t we make headway in turning the
abandoned outlet mall into a food
distribution warehouse?
19. Medora, Indiana
Strategic Doing Case Study
What would Medora, Indiana look like if it was a hot
spot for locally-produced foods?
21. Exercise 1: Framing
Appreciative Questions
Keep the end-in-mind for the discussion.
Experiment with the construction and scope to
get a feel for how each can change the
direction of the inquiry.
Ask yourself, ” Is this a question to which we
do not already know the answer? If we do, it is
not inquiry.
Run the question by someone to see how well
the question works and where it leads.
23. Exercise 2: Identifying Assets
Helps to begin answering the
question, “what could we do
together?”
24.
25. Exercise 2: Identifying Assets
Identify the assets represented
around your table that could
contribute to your appreciative
theme.
Whatcould we do together (and that
OU/EDI could learn from) to form a
supportive EDI alumni network?
26.
27. Exercise 3: Combining Assets
Put together different combinations of
your assets to help brainstorm
several ideas
38. Exercise 6:Make Commitments
Decide on near-immediate action
steps each person can take to move
things forward.
What milestones do you need to hit in
the next 30 days?
42. Exercise 7:Define Your 30/30
When will you get back together?
How will you stay in touch?
43. The Results
The Sweet Victory Challenge is now in its 5thyear and in 2012
they received over 1,000 entries and now attracts a panel of
celebrity judges. Over 5,000 visitors attended the festival in
2012, a 500% increase over 2011.
44. Thanks!
Scott Hutcheson
hutcheson@purdue.edu
765-479-7704
Editor's Notes
Here is another link-and-leverage success story. A group of community leaders in North Central Indiana were discussing the need to get more high school students interested in manufacturing careers. The region’s manufacturers had good jobs available that were going unfilled. One person at the meeting made a passing comment that most of the young people she knew were only interested in playing Guitar Hero. That triggered someone else to think about a Purdue professor who runs a sort of fantasy camp for adult guitar enthusiasts, helping them make their own guitar. The group then begin to think of kids who like to play Guitar Hero as an asset and then linked these three assets together. Purdue now runs a high school summer camp where students make their own guitar and learn about advanced manufacturing.