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Collective Impact Forum staff, partners, and guest contributors share the latest learning, innovations, and stories from the field.
- 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…
- July 25, 2014
Working Across Sectors Creates More Opportunity for America’s Youth
By Melody BarnesThis essay was originally published on the Aspen Institute Forum for Community Solutions on July 24, 2014.Just over a year ago, I stood on stag…
- July 22, 2014
Putting the Community into Community Engagement
This essay was originally posted to The Huffington Post on July 10, 2014.Community. Engagement.These two words get a lot of air time at the tables where coalit…
- July 17, 2014
Finding Our People … Just Like the Girl in the Bee Suit
This essay was originally posted to StriveTogether's Striving for Change blog on July 16, 2014.In the Blind Melon 90s alternative rock video, “No Rain,” a youn…
- July 14, 2014
Building Cross Sector Collaboration “Muscle”
While several months back, May’s funder convening in Aspen showed that more grantmakers recognize that no single organization can go it alone when it comes to …