Bringing people together for community building, capacity building, and system building

  • 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.
  • At CHS we create and support impact networks that bring people together for 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 building 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 building networks bring people together to learn and take action 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 building 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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