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Collective Impact Forum staff, partners, and guest contributors share the latest learning, innovations, and stories from the field.
- September 10, 2014
Communities Defining Quality Collective Impact
By Jeff Edmondson and Ben HechtAfter three years of hype, Collective Impact seems to be going through some growing pains. In some cases, it looks similar to tr…
- September 2, 2014
Essential Mindset Shifts for Collective Impact
By John Kania, Fay Hanleybrown, & Jennifer Splansky JusterPeople often ask whether we would refine the five conditions of collective impact that we articul…
- August 12, 2014
A Mayor’s View: The Effect of Collective Impact Initiatives on City Hall
By Ronda JacksonThis interview was originally posted to Living Cities' The Catalyst on July 29, 2014.In our journey to explore and learn more about the role of…
- 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 …
- July 8, 2014
Eight Yummy Tensions of Collective Impact
This essay was originally posted to Living Cities' The Catalyst on July 3, 2014.I had the great fortune of attending the first learning community of the Workin…
- May 19, 2014
The Importance of “Emergence” in the Youth Field
I don’t know if he could hear it from the podium, but there was an audible “ah-hah” moment from the audience when John Kania spoke two weeks ago at the Ready b…