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Collective Voices
Collective Impact Forum staff, partners, and guest contributors share the latest learning, innovations, and stories from the field.
- August 6, 2014
It Takes a Community: Newark Comes Together to Make the Most of Summer for their Youth
Across the nation, community leaders have increasingly recognized the promise of summer to accelerate student learning. But to maximize collective impact and r…
- August 5, 2014
Developmental Evaluation in the Context of Collective Impact – Part 2
This is the second part of a two-part series on developmental evaluation and collective impact. Read part 1.In Part 1, Kathleen Holmes with the Missouri Founda…
- August 4, 2014
Vibrant Communities – Getting to Shared Outcomes
A very interesting meeting happened in Montreal in July. The J.W. McConnell Family Foundation, Ontario Trillium Foundation and the Lucie and Andre Chagnon Foun…
- July 31, 2014
Montana’s “Nested Collective Impact” Leverages Rural Community Connections
Montana recently hosted Jeff Edmondson of StriveTogether in a daylong workshop to explore collective impact in rural communities. Six Montana towns, with popul…
- July 30, 2014
Developmental Evaluation in the Context of Collective Impact – Part 1
Making the Choice to Use Developmental EvaluationWhen the Missouri Foundation for Health decided to focus on decreasing infant mortality rates, we knew the app…
- July 28, 2014
What’s Equity got to do with it? It is the Key to Success
My colleagues and I posed this question—“What’s equity got to do with it?”—to those who took part in our session at the Collective Impact Forum’s funder conven…