HWS: Geneva 2020

ABOUT GENEVA 2020

Geneva 2020 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 2020.

Steering Committee

Jose Acevedo, President and CEO of Finger Lakes Health
Colleen Aiezza, Geneva Campus Specialist, Finger Lakes Community College
Greg Baker, Principal of the Geneva High School
Pat Collins, Professor of Education at Hobart and William Smith Colleges
John Cromarti, FLCC Geneva Center Administrator
Katie Flowers, Director of the Center for Community Engagement and Service Learning at Hobart and William Smith Colleges
Mark D. Gearan, President of Hobart and William Smith Colleges
Jane Gerling, Community Member
Rev. Jim Gerling, Community Member
Matt Horn, City Manager
Lucille Mallard, President of the Geneva Chapter of the NAACP
Kelly J. Mittiga, Senior Vice President, Director of Deposit and Retail Operations, First Niagara Bank
Alejandra Molina, Director of Office of Intercultural Affairs, Hobart and William Smith Colleges
Victor Nelson, Secretary of the Board of Directors of the African American Men’s Association
Trina Newton, Superintendent of the Geneva City School District
Susan Pliner, Associate Dean for Teaching, Learning and Assessment at Hobart and William Smith Colleges
RJ Rapozza, Director of Academic Success, Finger Lakes Community College
Chris Smart, Associate Professor, Cornell University-New York State Agricultural Experiment Station
Karen Springmeier, Executive Director, Finger Lakes Workforce Investment Board, Inc.
Montrose Streeter, Assistant Vice President of Student Affairs at Hobart and William Smith Colleges
Heather Swanson, Public Information Officer, Geneva City School District
Mark Venuti, Chair of the Board of the Boys and Girls Club of Geneva
Catherine Williams, Vice President for Communications, Hobart and William Smith Colleges

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”