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Collective Voices
Collective Impact Forum staff, partners, and guest contributors share the latest learning, innovations, and stories from the field.
- December 1, 2015
Why Communities of Color are Getting Frustrated with Collective Impact
This post was originally published on the blog Nonprofit with Balls on November 29, 2015.A while ago I wrote “Collective Impact: Resistance is Futile,” detaili…
- November 11, 2015
Four Ways To Use Our New Cross-Sector Partnership Assessment as a Tool to Strengthen Your Work
This blog was originally posted to Living Cities' blog on 11/11/15.Today, we are excited to release our Cross-sector Partnership Assessment. In our work suppor…
- October 27, 2015
Calculating the Cost of Collective Impact – New Backbone Budget Scenario Tool
We talk a lot about the importance of a backbone organization in collective impact, but moving from the conceptual idea of a backbone into making it a reality …
- October 23, 2015
Pitfalls to Avoid When Pursuing Equity
The Collaborating to See All Constituents Reach Their Full Potential memo by GEO and the CI Forum, observes that developing and applying an explicit focus on e…
- October 23, 2015
If You Don’t Know Who You’re Impacting, How Do You Know You’re Making an Impact?
When I’m not trying to get philanthropy to be more proactive around embracing diversity, equity, and inclusion, I’m working to get my Ph.D. at the University o…
- October 23, 2015
Exploring Equity in Collaborative Grantmaking
As conversations around race and equity gain prominence in the national dialogue, it seems the philanthropic sector is increasingly recognizing the ways in whi…