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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 4, 2016
Advancing the Practice of Collective Impact
We appreciate Tom Wolff’s critique of collective impact and the insights he shares in his recent essay. Wolff’s years of experience in the field, and the persp…
- May 4, 2016
Ten Places Where Collective Impact Gets It Wrong
This essay was originally posted to the Global Journal of Community Psychology Practice in March 2016.In 2011 Kania and Kramer published a five page article in…
- April 27, 2016
Collaboration and Collective Impact: How can Funders, NGOs, Governments and Citizens Achieve More Together?
There is a long history of experiments to align the actions and thoughts of many different organisations trying to achieve some kind of social change – better …
- April 25, 2016
The Evolution of Collective Impact in Detroit
The interview was originally posted on Living Cities on April 4, 2016.The Integration Initiative—or “TII”—began in 2010 as a pioneering approach to community d…
- February 17, 2016
Sustaining Momentum in Collective Impact – A Story from the Rio Grande Valley of Texas
We can, whenever and wherever we choose, successfully teach all children whose schooling is of interest to us. We already know more than we need to do that. Wh…
- September 29, 2015
Building the Capacity for Collective Action
No organization (or issue) is an island, and central to collective impact is the recognition that achieving real impact means changing complex and dynamic syst…