How do you form a Common Agenda?
How does one go about creating a “common agenda” with collaborative partners?
Setting a Common Agenda
This presentation gives a brief overview of how a common agenda can be developed, as well as examples from…
Collaborating to Create a Common Agenda
With so many different stakeholders at the table, coming to consensus over the key issues and how to approach…
Sample Strategies for Pursuing a Common Agenda
These strategies were developed for a collective impact effort focused on improving health outcomes in a large U.S. city.
- June 16, 2014
Differentiated Roles, Common Goals: Direct Service Providers and Collective Impact
“We’re the ones doing the work. Other people are trying to take credit for work we’ve done. It’s harder…
Getting Started – What is Collective Impact?
We’re kicking off the Collective Impact Forum podcast by diving into the foundations of the collective impact approach towards…
- January 26, 2016
Burning Questions from the “Getting Started with Collective Impact” Webinar Series
The Collective Impact Forum and FSG recently co-hosted a 3-part webinar series, “Getting Started with Collective Impact.” This series…
- June 8, 2015
Equity Matters in Collective Impact
Last month, over 1,600 viewers from 25 countries and 46 U.S. states joined us for the livestream event Equity…
- May 4, 2016
Ten Places Where Collective Impact Gets It Wrong
This essay was originally posted to the Global Journal of Community Psychology Practice in March 2016.In 2011 Kania and…
- January 20, 2015
How Well Does Grantmaking Practice Support Collective Impact?
Findings from a national studyThe five conditions for collective impact offer guidance not only for collective impact initiatives but…
The Ongoing Practice of Building Movements and Solidarity
What does it mean to build a movement? How is movement building connected to organizing and practicing solidarity with…
- July 19, 2016
Conversations with Experienced Backbone Leaders: LiveWell Colorado
We hope you’re enjoying our conversations with experienced backbone leaders. In this installment, we had the pleasure of sitting…
- June 26, 2017
Seeing Collective Impact Efforts with a Racial Equity Lens
This blog was originally posted on IISC's blog on June 7, 2017.A couple of weeks ago, IISC was invited…
- October 23, 2014
The Culture of Collective Impact
“It took a lot of time to build trust. People had distrust for years. You can’t undo that in…
- June 29, 2018
Beyond Seats at the Table: Equity, Inclusion, and Collective Impact – Video and Transcript
This past April, over 700 attendees and hundreds more online viewers joined us for the livestream event Beyond Seats…
Bringing an Anti-Racist Approach to Collective Impact: Interview with Dr. Zea Malawa
How can the collective impact approach put anti-racism at the center of its work? How can collective impact work…
- April 8, 2014
New Article on How to Move from Vision to Implementation in Collective Impact
Forming a steering committee and creating a common agenda is hard work. I know this from personal experience of…
- August 29, 2016
Backbone Board Members Have Additional Roles and Responsibilities
Backbone organizations are unusual entities and that means they need unusual boards too. Board members of organizations responsible for…
- April 17, 2016
Collective Impact Principles of Practice: Putting Collective Impact into Action
We have been inspired watching the field of collective impact progress over the past five years, as thousands of…
How to Navigate Backbone Challenges: Virtual Office Hour
In this virtual office hour, Collective Impact Forum's Jennifer Splansky Juster, Courtney W. Robertson, and Paul Schmitz answered questions…