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Collective Impact Forum staff, partners, and guest contributors share the latest learning, innovations, and stories from the field.
- July 22, 2014
Putting the Community into Community Engagement
This essay was originally posted to The Huffington Post on July 10, 2014.Community. Engagement.These two words get a lot of air time at the tables where coalit…
- July 17, 2014
Finding Our People … Just Like the Girl in the Bee Suit
This essay was originally posted to StriveTogether's Striving for Change blog on July 16, 2014.In the Blind Melon 90s alternative rock video, “No Rain,” a youn…
- 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 10, 2014
Exploring Collective Impact – Perspectives from The Philanthropist
This post is a condensed version of my Guest Editorial for a special collective impact issue of The Philanthropist, a quarterly review for practitioners, schol…
- 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…
- June 23, 2014
The Tango of Collective Impact
This weekend, I had the pleasure of watching couples dance the tango in a public square in London. The intricacies of the dance, coupled with the individual st…