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Collective Voices
Collective Impact Forum staff, partners, and guest contributors share the latest learning, innovations, and stories from the field.
- January 20, 2016
Engaging the Business Community in Collective Impact
The business community can be a powerful partner in collective impact. The overwhelming majority of collective impact initiative leaders we surveyed for our ne…
- December 22, 2015
2015’s Most Popular Forum Blogs and Resources
The New Year is a great time for reflection and often, a much needed opportunity for rejuvenation. (You can find some excellent self-care recommendations over …
- December 14, 2015
Vu Le is Right* About Equity and Collective Impact
* Well, mostly right. I’m writing this while flying from Washington, D.C. to San Francisco. The person in front of me reclined all the way right after takeoff …
- December 1, 2015
Why Communities of Color are Getting Frustrated with Collective Impact
This post was originally published on the blog Nonprofit with Balls on November 29, 2015.A while ago I wrote “Collective Impact: Resistance is Futile,” detaili…
- November 11, 2015
Four Ways To Use Our New Cross-Sector Partnership Assessment as a Tool to Strengthen Your Work
This blog was originally posted to Living Cities' blog on 11/11/15.Today, we are excited to release our Cross-sector Partnership Assessment. In our work suppor…
- October 27, 2015
Calculating the Cost of Collective Impact – New Backbone Budget Scenario Tool
We talk a lot about the importance of a backbone organization in collective impact, but moving from the conceptual idea of a backbone into making it a reality …