Bringing people together to connect, learn, share, and innovate for impact.

  • In today’s environment of dynamic change, continuous learning is imperative for individuals, teams, organizations, and communities.
  • The challenge lies in bringing people together in ways that are time-efficient and directly relevant to the daily work of participants.
  • What if we could bring people together to connect, learn, share, and innovate for positive impact?
  • At CHS we use a field-tested, time-efficient impact network model to support community building, capacity building, and system building.

Our impact network model brings people together to connect, learn, share, and innovate for positive impact.

  • Connect. Build relationships around shared goals, opportunities, and challenges.
  • Learn. Gain knowledge, insights, and tools from evidence, experts, and experience.
  • Share. Exchange ideas, resources, promising practices, and lessons learned.
  • Innovate. Develop and adapt solutions to real-world challenges.
  • Impact. Create positive impact for community building, capacity building, and system building.

Depending on the goals, a network can be designed to support community building, capacity building, system building, or a strategic combination of all three.

  • Community-focused impact networks bring people together to build community connections and create positive community change.
  • Topics. The network topics can include community development, education, health, housing, human services, public safety, transportation, and more.
  • Sponsors. Sponsors for community building networks can include foundations, hospitals, public agencies, and other organizations focused on community improvement.
  • Members. The network members can include individuals and teams from nonprofits, public agencies, civic organizations, and more.
  • Activities. The network members can engage in webinars, access online learning resources, share ideas, and collaborate for strategy development.
  • Results. The network results include stronger organizations and creative collaboration for positive community impact.

  • Capacity-focused impact networks bring people together to build stronger organizations.
  • Topics. Topics for capacity building can include strategy, leadership, teamwork, operations, culture, quality, and evaluation.
  • Sponsors. Sponsors for capacity building networks can include associations, foundations, public agencies, and other entities interested in supporting organizational capacity building.
  • Members.  The network members can include individuals and teams nonprofits, public agencies, and other mission-driven organizations.
  • Activities.  The network members can engage in webinars, access online learning resources, exchange ideas with peers, and pursue project-based activities to apply what they are learning.
  • Results. The network results include positive changes in learning, action, and impact for the participating individuals, teams, and organizations.

  • System-focused impact networks bring people together to create more effective systems that work for everyone.
  • Topics. Topics for system building can include access improvement, quality improvement, data development, service integration, environmental change, and policy change.
  • Sponsors. Sponsors of system building networks can include foundations, public agencies, associations, and other organizations interested system improvement.
  • Members. Members of system building networks can include organizations from within and across sectors including business, nonprofits, public agencies, and civic organizations.
  • Activities. The network members can engage in webinars, access online learning resources, share ideas, and innovate for system change.
  • Results. The network results can include better system supports for community members, and more rational system structures for community organizations.
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