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Collective Impact Forum staff, partners, and guest contributors share the latest learning, innovations, and stories from the field.
- 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…
- June 26, 2017
Seeing Collective Impact Efforts with a Racial Equity Lens
This blog was originally posted on IISC's blog on June 7, 2017.A couple of weeks ago, IISC was invited to offer a post-conference session at the Collective Imp…
- April 6, 2017
Study on Social Change Outcomes Learned from Collective Impact Initiatives
Since the publication of Collective Impact in the winter 2011 edition of the Stanford Social Innovation Review, this approach to cross-sector collaboration has…
- March 29, 2017
To Validate or Elevate? Measuring Community Impact in an Actionable Way
Last November, Matt Forti and Kim Siegal penned an article titled Actionable Measurement: Getting from “Prove” to “Improve” in the Stanford Social Innovation R…
- 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…
- December 20, 2016
No Switzerland: Why “Neutrality” May Not Be the Right Way to Describe Backbone Leaders
As we reflect on 2016, we want to share four key areas that stood out for the Collective Impact Forum community. Read below to see the Forum’s most-read resour…