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Collective Impact Forum staff, partners, and guest contributors share the latest learning, innovations, and stories from the field.
- July 1, 2016
Conversations with Experienced Backbone Leaders: Communities that Care
Our conversation series with experienced backbone leaders continues with a conversation with Kat Allen, co-chair of Communities that Care Coalition (CTC).CTC f…
- June 22, 2016
Conversations with Experienced Backbone Leaders: Project U-Turn
This is the second in our conversation series with experienced backbone leaders. (see this blog post describing the series.)In this conversation, we spoke with…
- June 22, 2016
Conversations with Experienced Backbone Leaders: Vermont Farm to Plate
Welcome to the first in a series of conversations with experienced backbone leaders! (see this blog post describing the series.) In this chat, we’ll hear from …
- June 22, 2016
New Blog Series: Conversations with Experienced Backbone Leaders
Summer is upon us, and in the U.S. the weather is hot, and the days long. I spent my childhood in Alabama, where the often-unbearable summer heat made us appre…
- 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 …
- 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 …