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Collective Impact

Austin Aspires is a local coalition
that brings together schools,
community organizations, “ ustin works to be a
government agencies, businesses Abetter place for kids
and philanthropic foundations. to grow. Austin Aspires
As a collective group we are Collective
holding ourselves accountable Impact is working to be a place
to measurable improvement on that grows better kids. ”
a core set of student outcomes.
Working together, we will create Coordinated Mr. Tedd Maxfield
a community where all children Impact Executive Director
thrive. We are moving from
individual impact where each YMCA
organization is working on a Individual
discrete set of goals in isolation, to Impact
shared ideas and aspirations for our
community, to collaborative action
rooted in shared responsibility and
accountability.

ducation is such
In our efforts to achieve better outcomes for all “Ea key ingredient
children in our community we have committed to in today’s world.
collective impact. Therefore we will: To maximize each
person’s potential, but
continually striving to
Measure What Matters give access and find
Our partners have built a common agenda around five major milestones better ways to grow
along the education continuum. We use timely and accurate community- is so very important.
wide data to drive our work. Austin Aspires is an
advocate for this… such
Identify Effective Practices a valuable part of our
In addition to using data, we look at effective practices in our community. community.
We select best strategies moving forward by identifying what is working ”
and what best practices should be implemented across the community.
Mr. Dan Goshorn
Store Director
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