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Collective Impact Forum staff, partners, and guest contributors share the latest learning, innovations, and stories from the field.
- May 31, 2016
Is Collective Impact Incompatible with Equity?
In the winter of 2015, two East Coast Millennials joined the FSG team in San Francisco (just in time to miss the cold tundra of the Northeast Corridor).As a tw…
- May 23, 2016
Getting Back to the Purpose of Collective Impact
My Aunt Janice’s biscuits are legendary. They are fluffy, buttery and light. Whenever we visit her in Alabama, we stop by to gorge ourselves on these delectabl…
- May 18, 2016
How Do Cross-Sector Collaborations for Education Present Data to the Public?
The collective impact model of cross-sector collaboration emphasizes the use of shared measurement systems for identifying problems and needs, tracking progres…
- 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 …