Regional Target Champions - Rocky Mountain Partnership

Four Entities Have Stepped Up as Regional Target Champions

These champions have committed to the community wide movement to ensure 71k more young people are on a path to social and economic mobility, and have committed to Knowing and claiming their number’ towards this target and setting annual target(s) to the Cradle to Career outcome(s) their work ladders to.

The Role of Regional Target Champions

No single organization is to blame for the pervasive social challenges we face, nor can any single organization be the sole architect of their solution.

The nonprofit sector most frequently operates using an approach that we call isolated impact. It is an approach oriented toward finding and funding a solution embodied within a single organization, combined with the hope that the most effective organizations will grow or replicate to extend their impact more widely. Funders search for more effective interventions as if there were a cure for failing schools that only needs to be discovered, in the way that medical cures are discovered in laboratories.

As a result of this process, nearly 1.4 million nonprofits try to invent independent solutions to major social problems, often working at odds with each other and exponentially increasing the perceived resources required to make meaningful progress.

Social problems arise from the interplay of governmental and commercial activities, not only from the behavior of social sector organizations. As a result, complex problems can be solved only by cross-sector coalitions that engage those outside the nonprofit sector.

“Collective Impact”, Kania & Kramer (2011)

Who Are Regional Target Champions

Entities or groups with a focus on or the capacity to address the needs of populations within the Cradle to Career outcome age range

Their work ladders to at least one of the Cradle to Career outcome areas

Could include nonprofit organizations, coalitions, local government, neighborhood groups, and businesses that directly impact Cradle to Career outcomes or who address the factors and barriers that prevent young people from being successful (healthcare, basic needs, housing, food security, juvenile justice, etc.)

Role of Regional Target Champions

		Pledge to join the community wide movement to ensure 71k more young people are on a path to social and economic mobility measured at the outcome level through the proven C2C outcomes

		Commit to the Knowing and claiming their number’ towards the overall 71K target and set annual target(s) to whatever C2C outcome(s) their work ladders to

		Develop a key driver that illuminates what is impacting their focus population and their specific efforts to address these factors

		Track the progress and impact of their efforts and use this information to adjust, expand, abandon, or scale their efforts

		Identify gaps so the collective can problem solve around how to fill those gaps

		Contribute to a region wide policy agenda that removes barriers and advances efforts towards achieving regional goal

		Participate in Community of Practice with other Target Champions

Learn More about becoming a Regional Target Champion

Contact Jody Nowicki, Senior Director of Collaborative Action, JodyNowicki@RMPBackbone.org, with additional questions or to learn more.