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Collective Voices
Collective Impact Forum staff, partners, and guest contributors share the latest learning, innovations, and stories from the field.
- December 21, 2017
Social Change: Top Resources of 2017
We’re excited to share with you 2017’s most popular resources from the Collective Impact Forum. From tools to strengthen community engagement to stories about …
- December 20, 2017
Opportunity Lost? Maximizing Large Federal Funds to Support Opportunity Youth
This blog was first published on the Aspen Forum for Community Solutions on December 4, 2017.There are nearly 5 million 16- to 24-year-olds in the US who are n…
- November 22, 2017
Systems Change Strategies: From Theory to Practice
“Systems change approaches” have become a mantra of the social sector. Communities feel the frustration with being “resource-rich and coordination-poor.” But w…
- July 31, 2017
Build Your Team Like Broadway
Building a steering committee or leadership team for a collective impact initiative can feel high stakes. When done well, it opens the door to innovation and i…
- July 24, 2017
What Can Collective Impact Learn from Organizing?
As the dust settles from hosting our fourth annual Collective Impact Convening, I have been reflecting on many of the wide-ranging conversations that unfolded …
- 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 in Conflict? Community Organizing and Co…