by Mike Clark – When I explain my work in the field of collective impact and systems design, I have some go-to phrases, like:
Germantown Systemic Change Initiative
Collective Impact: Three Basic Questions
by Mike Clark In providing services and programs to assist those in poverty, there are several basic questions we need...
Collective Impact in Systemic Change
by Mike Clark Is there an impact -- a collective impact - -that can be demonstrated in a systemic change initiative?...
Art as Prophecy: A Man for Our Times
Seeking Justice & Redemption, Shining Hope & Love People associated with the Germantown Systemic Change Initiative (Philadelphia, PA, USA) often find creative ways to address continuing structural issues that surround impoverished people and frustrate their...
Serve: Germantown Systemic Change Initiative
The Germantown Systemic Change Initiative (GSCI) is a project aimed at improving the lives of the vulnerable citizens of the Germantown neighborhood of Philadelphia by building meaningful collaboration among community-based organizations and creating a collective...
Three years in the making… creating a backbone
Three years in the making… creating a backbone. In 2010, following a Vincentian Family Gathering in Belleville, Illinois, people from 15 Vincentian-affiliated organizations in Germantown met to answer the question “so what now?”