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Collective Voices
Collective Impact Forum staff, partners, and guest contributors share the latest learning, innovations, and stories from the field.
- 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 Kramer published a five page article in…
- April 27, 2016
Collaboration and Collective Impact: How can Funders, NGOs, Governments and Citizens Achieve More Together?
There is a long history of experiments to align the actions and thoughts of many different organisations trying to achieve some kind of social change – better …
- April 26, 2016
Assessing the Collective Impact Field’s Needs: Insights from Our Second Annual Survey
Earlier this year, the Collective Impact Forum gathered feedback through its second annual survey of members who have created an online profile. The purpose of…
- April 25, 2016
The Evolution of Collective Impact in Detroit
The interview was originally posted on Living Cities on April 4, 2016.The Integration Initiative—or “TII”—began in 2010 as a pioneering approach to community d…
- 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 practitioners, funders, and policymakers aroun…
- March 27, 2016
Collective Impact Backbones – Different Approaches and a lot of Complexity
A closer look at the diversity of collective impact efforts reveals a diversity of backbone infrastructure designs as well. Depending on the size and scope of …