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Collective Impact Forum staff, partners, and guest contributors share the latest learning, innovations, and stories from the field.
- March 20, 2024
From Chaos and Competition to Clarity and Coordination: Four Pivots for Aligning Coalitions to Achieve Equity
We know that changing systems to be more equitable requires collaboration, but sometimes working with a broad network or coalition can feel chaotic, with compe…
- January 12, 2024
Meeting Tips: How Music Can Energize Your Meetings
Facilitating gatherings is far more than simply “hosting a meeting.” A lot of thought, care, and design goes into how to set up, run, and follow-up after a mee…
- October 25, 2021
Lessons in Examining the Role of Advocacy and Organizing in Collective Impact
By Brian KennedyThis year, Frontline Solutions worked with the Collective Impact Forum to conduct research on how collective impact initiatives can leverage ad…
- March 17, 2020
Community Equity and COVID-19—Seven Things Philanthropy Can Do
As the world finds itself navigating through the new, unchartered territory of working through a global pandemic, we wanted to share some thoughts from Dr. Lau…
- September 24, 2019
Welcome to the Party! Onboarding New Collaborative Partners
If collective impact efforts have any certainties, one surely is the ever-revolving (one might hope ever-evolving) door of community partners coming to the tab…
- April 26, 2019
Inside Funder-Intermediary-Evaluator Partnerships: Three Cases
By Meg Long and Clare NolanFunders who have ambitious goals to change large systems often create partnerships with intermediaries and evaluators to help realiz…