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Collective Impact Forum staff, partners, and guest contributors share the latest learning, innovations, and stories from the field.
- 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 …
- October 23, 2015
Pitfalls to Avoid When Pursuing Equity
The Collaborating to See All Constituents Reach Their Full Potential memo by GEO and the CI Forum, observes that developing and applying an explicit focus on e…