Thanks to Dr. Denise Linda Parris, Co-Founder of Pavilion Intelligence and an Assistant Professor of Entrepreneurship at the University of Oklahoma, others can learn about how Second Harvest partners with other organizations to create change.
Denise worked with Second Harvest Food Bank in the past exploring and writing about Second Harvest’s commitment to social entrepreneurship. She was intrigued by the work of the Second Harvest Food Bank Health and Hunger Task Force, asking how our organization inspires and engages stakeholders to build an ecosystem to improve community health.
She requested access to our group to study the process, believing it would be useful to the field, inclusive of other CBO’s attempting to build functional and effective collaborations that solve difficult community challenges. The result of her work has been published in the Journal of Organizational Dynamics at the following link: Feeding Collective Impact: How to Foster Cross-Sector Partnerships that Build Innovative Solutions for Social Change.
This Second Harvest Food Bank case example serves as a model for how an organization can foster cross-sector partners to build innovative solutions for social change. The case illustrates how an anchor institution—an established organization in the community with long term orientation towards creating social change—fostered collective impact, and how this process was facilitated. – Journal of Organizational Dynamics.
Denise Linda Parris is the Co-Founder of Pavilion Intelligence and an Assistant Professor of Entrepreneurship at the University of Oklahoma. Denise’s research focuses on entrepreneurship, technology innovation, social impact and pedagogy. Her work has been recognized with multiple accolades, including an Emerald Citation of Excellence Award, the Fritz Roethlisberger Memorial Award and an Emerald Outstanding Paper Award.
Thank you Dr. Parris for sharing the work of Second Harvest Food Bank.
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