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Collective Voices
Collective Impact Forum staff, partners, and guest contributors share the latest learning, innovations, and stories from the field.
- May 11, 2022
On the Art of (Re)Gathering
As any collective impact practitioner knows, our work involves meetings. A lot of meetings. We gather colleagues, allies, and networks to learn from one anothe…
- April 22, 2022
Shifting the Power to the Local Community: Saamuhika Shakti in Bengaluru, India
Since 2019, the H&M Foundation has been supporting Saamuhika Shakti, a collective impact (CI) initiative to improve the lives of waste pickers in Bengaluru…
- October 8, 2020
Building Your Voting Plan
With the U.S. election coming up, creating a plan to vote can be a helpful step to ensure your voice is part of the process.The Forum team, located across the …
- July 24, 2017
What Can Collective Impact Learn from Organizing?
As the dust settles from hosting our fourth annual Collective Impact Convening, I have been reflecting on many of the wide-ranging conversations that unfolded …
- July 24, 2017
Video and Transcript: Complementary or in Conflict? Community Organizing and Collective Impact
This past May, over 800 attendees and hundreds more online viewers joined us for the livestream event Complementary or in Conflict? Community Organizing and Co…
- March 26, 2017
New Toolkit for Community Engagement
Almost every collective impact effort I have visited has struggled with community engagement at some level. During the past few years, I have learned a great d…