Starfish Consultancy -
Shanti Wong (PhD)
Ian Wong (M Ed)
Starfish Consultancy specialises in educational projects and facilitation and is run by independent consultants, Shanti and Ian Wong. We are experienced in project management, report writing, evaluation, research, data analysis and partnership brokerage. We work with schools, community agencies, local government and educational organisations.
Consultancy closed
NEWS & EVENTS
The time has come to close Starfish Consultancy. We thank all of our clients who have engaged us to work with them as they develop innovative ways to build the capacity of our communities. We especially thank those researchers who have partnered with us, adding specialist skills that enhanced our projects.
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We are proud of the work we have produced over the past 13 years and are happy to continue to make it available, free of charge, on this website.
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Please feel free to contact us if you have any questions. Our best wishes to everyone we have worked with as you continue to make a difference in the community.
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Shanti and Ian Wong
September 2020
Collective Impact Assessment Tool (CIAT)
‘Outcome strength + partnership strength = impact’
The Collective Impact Assessment Tool (CIAT) is now on Facebook! 'Like' it to keep up to date with how it is being used and share the experiences of assessing the impact of partnerships on your community projects.
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The web version of the City of Melton's
Collective Impact Assessment Tool (CIAT) is now available free online at:
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https://meltonciat.com​
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Contact us if you would like a demonstration.
OUR LATEST RESEARCH
Collective Impact Assessment Tool (CIAT)
‘Outcome strength + partnership strength = impact’
Starfish Consultancy, together with Peter Blunden and Dr Leone Wheeler, have developed CIAT for the City of Melton's Community Learning Board. It is now available free online to all.
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The Collective Impact Assessment Tool (CIAT) provides your organisation or community with the ability to measure and evaluate the strength of your partnerships and how well those partnerships go in achieving a project’s goals and strategies.
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CIAT gives users the ability to generate consistent numerical data about subjective findings. The data on a project’s collective impact can carry equal weight with the data generated by other statistical or research data sources.
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The underlying premise of Collective Impact is that no single organisation can create large-scale, lasting social change alone.
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Purpose
To measure the strength and impact a partnership has on achieving outcomes of a project - that is, what has the collective impact actually been.
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Scope
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Measure a small or single partnership project.
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Measure a large multidimensional project with many outcomes and partnerships. In this case an outcome could also be viewed or set up as a separate project.
How to access
It is recommended that you read the User Guide before accessing CIAT (available at https://meltonciat.com).
The User Guide outlines two options for accessing CIAT:
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Option 1 incurs an annual fee of $300 AUD, but provides easy access for users who do not have direct access to their server or to IT specialists.
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Option 2 is free.
Details as follows:
Option 1
PURCHASE HOSTING and INSTALLATION
If you are not able to host and install an instance of CIAT on a server available to you, there is a company called Preflight that hosts / installs instances of CIAT for clients on their servers.
This service is offered at $300 AUD annually.
For that fee they will install an instance of CIAT on one of their servers and liase with you the client to put it on a domain or subdomain that is acceptable to you. Once it is in place they will supply you the Administrator username and password and off you go.
If you would like to talk to someone about setting this up please email Jaryd Fletcher on: info@preflight.com.au
Option 2
DEPLOY THE SOFTWARE FOR FREE
You can deploy the software for no fee. This is best done by an IT specialist. If an organisation has an IT Department or a separate web manager who downloads CIAT but will not be involved in projects it is essential that they set up a project and enrol at least one partner and allocate them as the Project Manager. It is also possible to give them Administrator rights.
Details for deployment are in the User Guide at: https://meltonciat.com
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Contact us to arrange a demo: shanti_wong@hotmail.com
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