Champions for Change 2021
-Come join the Collective Impact Forum for Champions for Change 2021, a three-week online workshop that will feature a…
2021 Collective Impact Action Summit
-The Collective Impact Forum invites you to join us on April 27-29, 2021 for the 2021 Collective Impact Action…
Rev. Dr. William Barber: 2021 Collective Impact Action Summit Keynote
In this powerful address from the 2021 Collective Impact Convening, Rev. Dr. William Barber (Repairers of the Breach) issues…
Sonya Renee Taylor: 2021 Collective Impact Action Summit Keynote
In this powerful keynote address, author, entrepreneur, poet, and activist Sonya Renee Taylor shares from her book The Body…
Designing to Inspire Community Joy and Connection
How can inclusive design spur community connections and build stronger partnerships in the process?During the COVID pandemic, the Van…
How Community Leads the Way with Participatory Action Research (PAR)
Communities can be “researched,” engaged, and surveyed to explore a variety of questions such as what barriers are preventing…
Shifting from Competition to Partnership in Private Sector Collaboration
The Millers for Nutrition coalition is working with 100+ millers and other partners to achieve an ambitious goal—getting nutritious,…
How Belonging, Meaning, Wellbeing, and Purpose (BMWP) Can Empower Youth and Their Communities
For more than a decade, The Opportunity Youth Forum at the Aspen Institute’s Forum for Community Solutions has been…
Exploring the Four Voices of Design to Solve Complex Problems
Getting to the heart of complex problems can be tricky. How does one untangle the many threads that can…
- March 20, 2024
From Chaos and Competition to Clarity and Coordination: Four Pivots for Aligning Coalitions to Achieve Equity
We know that changing systems to be more equitable requires collaboration, but sometimes working with a broad network or…
- July 24, 2017
Video and Transcript: Complementary or in Conflict? Community Organizing and Collective Impact
This past May, over 800 attendees and hundreds more online viewers joined us for the livestream event Complementary or…
- October 6, 2014
What Keeps Steering Committee Members Coming to Meetings? (Hint: F-words!)
What makes collective impact steering committee meetings a priority for leaders who juggle myriad commitments? In my opinion, F-words…
- August 6, 2014
It Takes a Community: Newark Comes Together to Make the Most of Summer for their Youth
Across the nation, community leaders have increasingly recognized the promise of summer to accelerate student learning. But to maximize…
- July 22, 2014
Putting the Community into Community Engagement
This essay was originally posted to The Huffington Post on July 10, 2014.Community. Engagement.These two words get a lot…
Building Community Authority in Place-Based Collaboration
What is “community authority,” and what are ways to authentically build it within place-based collaborative work? In this new…
Strengthening Relationships through a Community of Practice
Communities of practice are a valuable way of bringing partners together to connect and learn from each other to…
It’s About the Community: Why Community Engagement and Process Matter in Collective Impact
Collective impact efforts are often discussed in terms of organizations or sectors, such as business, nonprofit, government, and philanthropy.
Building Capacity to Support Community Listening
What can it look like to build capacity to support authentic community listening?In this podcast discussion, we learn about…
Pivoting to Build a Stronger Collaborative
We welcome back members of the Healthy Food Community of Practice to hear what they learned from their multi-year…
Mobilizing Innovative Partnerships for Community Investment
How can community anchor institutions, like hospitals, help launch and strengthen community investment initiatives?In this episode, we learn about…
