Diverse organizations and individuals working together for strengthened programs, connection and improved awareness of services that meet essential human needs.
A word from our Network Weaver, Christina Fulsom.
A Paradigm Shift
In order to create lasting solutions to social problems on a large-scale, organizations - including those in government, civil society, and the business sector - need to coordinate their efforts and work together around clearly defined goals.
Collective Impact is a significant shift from the social sector's current paradigm of "isolated impact," because the underlying premise of Collective Impact is that no single organization can create large-scale, lasting social change alone. There is no "silver bullet" solution to systemic social problems, and these problems cannot be solved by simply scaling or replicating one organization or program. Strong organizations are necessary but not sufficient for large-scale social change.
ETHNN is being employed to address a wide variety of issues including education, employment, healthcare, housing and transportation.
More than 35,000 people in our community are struggling to break out of poverty. That's one person out of six, or one child out of four. Even more troubling is that despite a lot of hard work by many wonderful organizations, the numbers keep increasing. What are we doing wrong? We have evidence-based effective programs operated by caring and knowledgeable individuals, everyone doing his or her best to improve lives; yet despite our efforts, the number of people is unacceptable. If we keep doing the same things, the numbers will continue to rise and we'll fall farther behind. We've reached a point in time where if we hope to foster human dignity and tap the potential of those we serve, we must work together and trust in each others' strengths. It's time for collective action! Difficult? Without a doubt. Necessary? Absolutely! Exciting? Yes!
Join us... As Nido Qubein said, Your present circumstances don't determine where you can go; they merely determine where you start", this applies to both those we serve and each other.
We can do this!
Christina Fulsom
Founder and Network Weaver
In order to create lasting solutions to social problems on a large-scale, organizations - including those in government, civil society, and the business sector - need to coordinate their efforts and work together around clearly defined goals.
Collective Impact is a significant shift from the social sector's current paradigm of "isolated impact," because the underlying premise of Collective Impact is that no single organization can create large-scale, lasting social change alone. There is no "silver bullet" solution to systemic social problems, and these problems cannot be solved by simply scaling or replicating one organization or program. Strong organizations are necessary but not sufficient for large-scale social change.
ETHNN is being employed to address a wide variety of issues including education, employment, healthcare, housing and transportation.
More than 35,000 people in our community are struggling to break out of poverty. That's one person out of six, or one child out of four. Even more troubling is that despite a lot of hard work by many wonderful organizations, the numbers keep increasing. What are we doing wrong? We have evidence-based effective programs operated by caring and knowledgeable individuals, everyone doing his or her best to improve lives; yet despite our efforts, the number of people is unacceptable. If we keep doing the same things, the numbers will continue to rise and we'll fall farther behind. We've reached a point in time where if we hope to foster human dignity and tap the potential of those we serve, we must work together and trust in each others' strengths. It's time for collective action! Difficult? Without a doubt. Necessary? Absolutely! Exciting? Yes!
Join us... As Nido Qubein said, Your present circumstances don't determine where you can go; they merely determine where you start", this applies to both those we serve and each other.
We can do this!
Christina Fulsom
Founder and Network Weaver
We are committed to creating sustainable community solutions to poverty by collaboratively fostering human potential through trusting relationships, empowerment and education.