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Collective Voices
Collective Impact Forum staff, partners, and guest contributors share the latest learning, innovations, and stories from the field.
- October 29, 2019
Assessing Collective Impact: Insights from Our Fifth Annual Survey
Insights from Our Fifth Annual Survey Earlier this year, the Collective Impact Forum gathered feedback through its fifth annual survey of members with online p…
- 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…
- September 23, 2019
13 Collaboratives Participating in Data Accelerator
The use of data across partners is a core element of the collective impact approach. In fact, the central use of data – for both collaborative learning and acc…
- August 30, 2019
Unsticking Stuck Mental Models: Adventures in Systemic Change
Recently, New Profit, the Collective Impact Forum, and FSG co-hosted a webinar, the second in a series on systems change. The title of the webinar was Shiftin…
- June 21, 2019
Securing Funding for the Collective Impact Backbone Role: Lessons from the Field
One of the most common questions we hear from collective impact practitioners is how to raise the funds needed to support and sustain the backbone role. While …
- June 20, 2019
Envisioning a “New Normal”: Systems-Based Approaches for Achieving the Next Generation of Development Goals
International development is in the midst of a sea change, broadening from a general focus on project-based outcomes to production of sustainable, embedded cha…