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Breakthrough Community Change: A Guide to Creating Common Agendas That Change Everything

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Discover a powerful methodology for bringing communities together to uncover hidden assets and transform deep-rooted challenges.

Veteran community organizer Paul Born’s work has contributed to lowering cancer rates in Maine, improving mental health for young people in Florida, and reducing poverty rates in Canada by 20 percent. In this much-needed new book, he shares stories of how he was able to catalyze local communities and guide them to make significant progress on seemingly intractable community problems.

Born has found that the secret to success is to organize and unite around a common agenda.This is not a list of topics, like a meeting agenda, nor a strategic plan. He offers a process for bringing leaders from businesses, human service organizations, and governments together with people who have a lived experience of a specific community problem. A common agenda is a statement of shared aspirations, a map of the assets in the community, and a road map for how to work together to make those aspirations a reality.

Part I of this book describes how to identify your community’s readiness for change; form leadership, action, and strategy teams; create a common agenda; and establish plans for community engagement. Part II presents the approaches and skill sets needed to do the work described in part I.

Remarkably, enormous systemic problems such as climate change, poverty, disease, racism, housing, and many more issues can be best addressed at the local level. Communities can develop solutions tailored to their unique circumstances and can collaborate at a magnitude that can result in a truly transformative impact. This book shows how to make change happen.

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“Paul Born, the head of the institute, emphasizes that the crucial thing these communitywide collective impact structures do is change attitudes. In the beginning it’s as if everybody is swimming in polluted water. People are sluggish, fearful, isolated, looking out only for themselves. But when people start working together across sectors around a common agenda, it’s like cleaning the water”.
—David Brooks, from his New York Times column "Winning the War on Poverty," 4 April 2019.

“Award-winning social entrepreneur Paul Born is one of the most creative anti-poverty leaders of his generation. Unwilling to surrender to a problem many consider intractable, he brings singular commitment and expertise to the fight. In Breakthrough Community Change, he shares those insights with organizations, equipping them to collaborate, change failing systems and achieve impact at scale.”
—Melody C. Barnes, Chair, Aspen Forum for Community Solutions; Executive Director, Karsh Institute of Democracy, University of Virginia; and former director, White House Domestic Policy Council

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Paul Born is the cofounder and former CEO and co-CEO at Tamarack Institute, a leading authority on the ideas and practice of community engagement, collective impact, and community innovation. He is also the founder and past CEO of Vibrant Communities, now active in over 500 municipalities with campaigns to end poverty, deepen community, build youth futures, and tackle climate change. In 2019 Born was appointed as a member of the Order of Canada; he is also a senior fellow at Ashoka, the world’s largest network of social innovators. He is the author of five books.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Publication date ‏ : ‎ April 11, 2023
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Print length ‏ : ‎ 240 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1523002174
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1523002177
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.31 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.63 x 0.53 x 8.56 inches
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When founding the charity Tamarack Institute for Community Engagement in 2001 with philanthropist and business leader Alan Broadbent,Paul Born titled his first speech "Seeking the Possibilities of Community." The title surprised even him, because he had been called on that day to talk about the technical process of change in cities and how community engagement and collaboration can lead to a larger collective impact. Even in those early days of the institute's research-- long before its work transformed how social issues like poverty were being addressed across the country, changing more than fifty government policies, supporting over two hundred social innovations, and reducing poverty for more than two hundred thousand people--Paul and his team understood that there was a direct correlation between people's sense of community and their willingness to improve the conditions of those who lived around them.

In 1998, as Paul, who then directed the Community Opportunities Development Association (CODA), and his team were honored by the United Nations Human Settlements Programme 160 About Paul Born as one of the forty Habitat best practices in the world, Nicholas You, who had flown in from Nairobi, Kenya, to present the award, stated, "We give you this award not only because you have reduced poverty for thousands of people, but more importantly because through your work you have created what will become known as a human problem solving machine [technique]." A technique that senior leaders at DuPont Canada and partners in Tamarack's work later would call "community potentialization."

Paul has always been fascinated by community. He grew up the son of refugees in a deep community of about one hundred families, all of whom had suffered the plight of mass starvation and had fled murder, rape, and oppression. As in many of the families in his community, both of his grandfathers had been executed at the hands of Stalin. Paul lived in fear as part of a people who came to Canada to heal, to start anew.

It is these experiences that drove Paul to write Deepening Community.In part, the process of deepening community is his journey to understand the possibilities of community in these chaotic times; it is also to explore how we might experience joy together in a world that seems to be unraveling. In all of his writing,speaking, and community work, Paul makes the case that living in joy together can help us transform our neighborhoods,our cities, our countries, and ultimately our world.

Paul is the author of four books, including the national bestseller Community Conversations, and founder of three national organizations. He is internationally recognized for his innovative approaches to community development. In 2013, Paul was elected to be a senior Ashoka Fellow, part of the world's largest network of social innovators: "This Senior Fellowship distinction recognizes Paul's significant contribution as an influencer and thought leader in the economic development sector."

As cofounder and president of the Tamarack Institute, Paul has spent the past twelve years with his team building a think tank and lab to grow professional capacity in the areas of collaborative leadership, community engagement, collective impact, and placebased innovation. More than fourteen thousand members from all around the world participate in Tamarack's learning communities and generate over five million page views on the Tamarack website(www.tamarackcommunity.ca) annually as they learn together.Paul is an activist and motivational speaker who travels in the United States, in Canada, and around the globe sharing his message of how we can deepen community, work collaboratively to achieve a collective impact, and, in the process, change the circumstances of those in need.

Connect with Paul at www.paulborn.ca.

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