The Impact Pathway helps communities move from fragmented efforts to coordinated action and measurable impact. Through five practical milestones, communities build the alignment, understanding, strategy, and momentum needed to improve quality of life over time.
Communities can begin at the milestone that best fits their current stage, goals, and readiness.
See the Full Pathway at a Glance
Want a quick overview of the full Impact Pathway journey? Download the one-page snapshot to explore all five milestones, formats, timing, and focus areas.
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Milestone 1: Gather to Build Momentum
Start Here • Current Enrollment Open
Communities don’t need a perfect plan to begin. Milestone 1 is a focused kickoff workshop designed to help communities identify a core group, clarify why the work matters now, and begin building the momentum needed for coordinated action.
What You’ll Advance
- A clearer shared purpose and case for change
- Initial cross-sector team identification
- Early alignment around priorities and direction
- A plan for engaging additional partners
- Readiness for Milestone 2
Format: 3-hour virtual workshop
Next Session: July 14, 2026
Cost: $500 for up to 5 participants
Applied as a credit toward Milestone 2 if your community continues
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Milestone 2: See Your Whole Picture
Next Cohort Begins August 2026 • Current Enrollment Open
Milestone 2 helps communities better understand the systems, conditions, partnerships, and priorities shaping quality of life. Communities strengthen alignment, expand engagement, and begin building a more complete picture of where they are today and where they want to go.
What You’ll Advance
- A stronger cross-sector team structure
- Shared understanding of community conditions
- Expanded stakeholder and resident engagement
- Refined community measures and scorecard priorities
- Increased alignment across initiatives and partners
Format: 10 virtual sessions over six months, plus coaching check-ins
Cost: $7,500 per community
Learn More About Milestone 2
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Milestone 3: Align and Plan for Cross-Sector Impact
Next Cohort Begins February 2027
Move from understanding to shared direction by aligning people, priorities, measures, strategies, and resources around common goals.
You’ll advance: prioritized needs and opportunities, shared community goals, a community strategic plan, updated scorecard, coordination plan, and refreshed messaging.
Milestone 4: Put Your Plan Into Practice
Begin implementing selected strategies, tracking progress, strengthening partnerships, and learning as you go.
You’ll advance: early-stage implementation, scorecard-based tracking, team reflection and learning, process adjustments, documented results, and expanded partnerships.
Milestone 5: Sustain, Celebrate, and Scale What Works
Strengthen what is working, tell the story of progress, embed the work into community systems, and prepare for the next stage of impact.
You’ll advance: sustainability planning, scaling strategy, team reflection, storytelling tools, and case materials.
Every Milestone Includes:
- Live virtual learning sessions
- Peer learning and networking
- Practical tools and templates
- Access to the online learning platform
- C.O.R.E. Community Scorecard access
- Examples and promising practices from other communities
- Optional coaching support
Coaching Support Options
Communities can add customized coaching support to any milestone. C.O.R.E. coaches help teams apply what they are learning, navigate challenges, strengthen collaboration, and accelerate progress.
Support may include:
- Team development
- Strategic planning
- Cross-sector collaboration
- Community engagement
- Data interpretation and use
- Applying the C.O.R.E. Guide
- Assessment preparation
About the C.O.R.E. Community Scorecard
Throughout the Impact Pathway, communities use the C.O.R.E. Community Scorecard to better understand conditions, track progress, and align around shared outcomes.
The scorecard includes measures across our seven quality of life aspects:
- Health
- Education
- Economy
- Housing
- Built Environment
- Physical Environment
- Social Cohesion
Communities may begin with the standard scorecard and later customize measures to reflect local priorities and goals.
Ready to Begin?
Whether your community is ready to launch Milestone 1, join the next Milestone 2 cohort, or simply explore what might fit best, we’d love to connect.
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Questions? Contact us at info@connectwithcore.org
