HWS: Geneva 2030

ABOUT GENEVA 2030

Geneva 2030 has been guided by the model of collective impact successfully used in Cincinnati, Ohio. By working in collaboration, individuals, businesses, and non-profit organizations have tackled the student achievement crisis in Cincinnati and moved the dial on a number of indicators of student success including high school graduation rates, and reading and math scores. Cincinnati's success in system-wide improvement across dozens of metrics is an example of a collective impact, described by the White House Council for Community Solutions as “the commitment of a group of important actors from different sectors to a common agenda for solving a specific social problem.”

We believe the collective impact model employed in Cincinnati can be an effective organizational tool for us in Geneva. To that end, a number of leaders from every sector of Geneva have gathered together to pledge their efforts in support of Geneva’s children through Geneva 2030.

Geneva 2030…past and future (PDF)

Advisory Board

Jose Acevedo, Finger Lakes Health
Greg Baker, GCSD
David Belding, First Baptist Church
Kathrin Berg, Finger Lakes Medical Associates
Jerry Buckley, HWS
Pat Collins, HWS
Juan Colon, Geneva Hispanic Church of God
Martha Colon, Geneva Hispanic Church of God
Toscinia Elliot-Monclova, HeadStart/GCSD Parent
Katie Flowers, HWS/Geneva Education Foundation
Jane Gerling, Success for Geneva’s Children
Jim Gerling, Success for Geneva’s Children
Sage Gerling, City of Geneva
Rev. Donald Golden, Mt Olive Missionary Baptist Church
Renee Grant, GCSD Board of Education
Mary Krause, Ontario County Supervisor
Joyce P. Jacobsen, HWS President
Dave Lass, Seneca Foods
Chris Lavin, Geneva Community Center/Geneva Boys and Girls Club
Mark Lukas, Finger Lakes Times, Publisher
Bernie Lynch, Geneva Education Foundation and Lynch’s Furniture
Lucille Mallard, NAACP
Val Mallard, Geneva Housing Authority
Kelly Mittiga, Lyons National Bank
Alejandra Molina, HWS
Trina Newton, GCSD Superintendent
Leigh Pitifer, FLCC
Susan Pliner, HWS
Alexandria Palermo, Club 86
Vicma Ramos, WFL BOCES District Superintendent
Karissa Schutt, GCSD HeadStart
Chris Smart, Cornell University/Cornell AgriTech
Karen Springmeier, Finger Lakes Works
Heather Swanson, GCSD
Lara Turbide, Finger Lakes Health
Carol Urbaitis, FLCC
Mark Venuti, Town of Geneva
Cathy Williams, HWS

Additional Information

Stanford Social Innovation Review, Winter 2011: “Collective Impact”

Stanford Social innovation Review, 2012: “Channeling Change: Making Collective Impact Work”

The Strive Partnership in Cincinnati unites common providers around shared issues, goals, measurements and results, and then actively supports and strengthens strategies that work.

NAACP, 2012: “Finding Our Way Back to First: Reclaiming World Leadership by Educating All America’s Children”