OVERVIEW

STEP 1: Mobilizing Resources

STEP 2: Understanding Social Capital as it Relates to Organizational Mission

We recommend that you convene key employees in a social capital retreat to discuss their theory of how they expect that your program leads to increased social capital, beginning with a discussion of social capital. To that end, everyone at the table should have, at a minimum, read this section and this section on the forms of social capital. Here are also other recommended readings on social capital if you want to dig deeper.

Goal of the retreat: to develop a shared understanding of social capital and how the organization would like to build it or believes it is already building it.

Topics to consider:

WHAT TYPES OF SOCIAL CAPITAL TIES YOU ARE BUILDING? (collapse)

After reading the materials on social capital, you should discuss this in the context of your own organization. Are you trying to build informal or formal ties? Are you trying to build bonding or bridge social capital? How does social capital express itself within your organization?

Ongoing example: hear how Jumpahead categorized the types of social capital it was building

WHAT ARE YOUR ORGANIZATIONAL GOALS? (expand)

HOW DOES ORGANIZATIONAL MISSION MAP ONTO SOCIAL CAPITAL? (expand)

WHAT COMMUNITY ARE YOU SERVING? (expand)

STEP 3: Identifying Program Links to Social Capital