Co-design investment approaches matched to a community's developmental phase¶

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Description¶

The article recommends that funders "engage with communities to co-design investment approaches that better match communities' current and future assets and needs based on their developmental phase." This is an implementable activity: funders jointly design investments with community members, using the ecocycle's phase assessment as the basis for matching funding to what the community can absorb and build on now and in the future.

Design Implications¶

Context¶

Requirements¶

• Funders must engage directly with communities rather than designing investments unilaterally, and must assess the community's developmental phase

Constraints¶

• Matching depends on an accurate reading of the community's current and future assets and needs

Target Learners¶

• Funders and foundation program staff

Target Learning Goals¶

• Designing phase-appropriate, community-co-created investment approaches

Affordances¶

• Community Developmental Phases Ecocycle

Related Strategies¶

• Funders use structured self-reflection to focus place-based systems change investments
• Offer implications for funders and program implementers engaged in systems change
• Use asset mapping to identify and celebrate existing strengths in the school and community

Examples¶

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Key Sources¶

• Meg Long, Wanda Casillas, James Liou. (2021). The Community Ecocycle in Place-Based Systems Change: A Tool for Funder and Community Reflection and Action. Equal Measure and Mathematica. https://www.mathematica.org/publications/the-community-ecocycle-in-place-based-systems-change-a-tool-for-funder-and-community-reflection