Measuring Partnerships for Impact
Welcome to the Measure Partnerships for Impact (MPI) website!
The ultimate purpose in measuring partnerships is to build a strong and functional foundation in the partnership/collaborative to help groups reach their impact goals.
Our goal is to MOTIVATE you to see the need for measuring your collaborative.
To find the MPI Assessment Tool: click here
To Contact Us: click here
Read our position paper that examines the value of building, sustaining and measuring the strength and effectiveness of partnerships, resulting in accelerated social impact. Click here to read it.
Exciting news!
MPI was recently featured in the Tamarack Engage Magazine: click here to read the article.
Who We Are
We are two practitioners in the field of collaborative work who, like many of you, want to make a positive contribution to the success of groups who are trying to impact conditions of well- being in their communities.
Our work is the collection of what we have lived and breathed with large and small partnerships, conversation by conversation, meeting by meeting, email by email, training by training until we noticed an opportunity to address a missing piece of the puzzle. The missing piece is the willingness and ability for groups to reliably measure their internal strengths and challenges so they can focus on intentional strategies to accelerate the achievement of their impact goals. This gap was so apparent that we had to explore it, study it and share possible solutions. The potential to help groups avoid the many pitfalls of collaborative work and succeed at turning important population level curves was too pressing to ignore.
The information on our website contains thoughts that can be used to enhance the approach to the collective impact process. Our experience informs our opinion that groups need to measure how well their partnership is working to inform them of strengths and opportunities that can be leveraged to reach their impact goals. Varying types of evaluation may be required as partnership evolve over time.
Julie Pehar
R.R.T., B.A., MEd.
Julie holds a Masters Degree in Education from the University of Toronto in the discipline of Sociology and Equity and a Bachelor of Arts Degree from McMaster University in Sociology and Women’s Studies. Julie is a business owner and consultant in the Greater Toronto Area working with many collaboratives and networks, municipal governments and United Ways using the Collective Impact and Results Based Accountability frameworks. Julie is an Innoweave coach and a part-time (2015/16) professor in the faculty of Applied Health and Community Studies, Social Service Worker Program Sheridan College Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning.
Seema Taneja
M.A.
Seema holds a Masters Degree in Community Psychology from Wilfrid Laurier University. Seema has worked in and now consults with the not-for-profit sector in the areas of data, measurement, evaluation, and strategy. Seema is a recognized trainer in Results-Based Accountability (RBA) and has lead several processes to support communities and organizations develop effective results, indicators, and measures so to enhance much of the work they are already engaged in. Seema is also an Innoweave coach and has supported several organizations in understanding and leveraging elements of Collective Impact to strengthen and accelerate their work. Seema supports open data and data sharing and leads initiatives that accelerate this philosophy into integrative planning for communities.
