- February 4, 2015
Facilitative Leadership for Net Impact
This essay was originally posted to IISC's blog on January 29, 2015.“Our world is, to a very real extent,…
- January 27, 2015
How to Transform the Lives of Low-Income People
The Integration Initiative began in 2010 with the promise of transforming the lives of low-income people and the communities in which…
- December 17, 2014
Achieving Collective Impact Starts with Asking Hard Questions
This essay was first published at Youth Thrive on Oct. 28, 2014.Communities across the country are embracing the collective…
- November 24, 2014
Don’t Talk to Me about “Driving” Social Change
I recently met with the former head of a major pharmaceutical company to talk about improving the lives of…
- October 1, 2014
Building Civic Confidence
In May, 2014 I attended the Catalyzing Large Scale Change: The Funder’s Role in Collective Impact convening that was…
- September 10, 2014
Communities Defining Quality Collective Impact
By Jeff Edmondson and Ben HechtAfter three years of hype, Collective Impact seems to be going through some growing…
- September 2, 2014
Essential Mindset Shifts for Collective Impact
By John Kania, Fay Hanleybrown, & Jennifer Splansky JusterPeople often ask whether we would refine the five conditions of…
- August 12, 2014
A Mayor’s View: The Effect of Collective Impact Initiatives on City Hall
By Ronda JacksonThis interview was originally posted to Living Cities' The Catalyst on July 29, 2014.In our journey to…
- 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…
- 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…
- May 19, 2014
The Importance of “Emergence” in the Youth Field
I don’t know if he could hear it from the podium, but there was an audible “ah-hah” moment from…
