- March 20, 2024
From Chaos and Competition to Clarity and Coordination: Four Pivots for Aligning Coalitions to Achieve Equity
We know that changing systems to be more equitable requires collaboration, but sometimes working with a broad network or…
- January 12, 2024
Meeting Tips: How Music Can Energize Your Meetings
Facilitating gatherings is far more than simply “hosting a meeting.” A lot of thought, care, and design goes into…
- October 25, 2021
Lessons in Examining the Role of Advocacy and Organizing in Collective Impact
By Brian KennedyThis year, Frontline Solutions worked with the Collective Impact Forum to conduct research on how collective impact…
- March 17, 2020
Community Equity and COVID-19—Seven Things Philanthropy Can Do
As the world finds itself navigating through the new, unchartered territory of working through a global pandemic, we wanted…
- 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…
- April 26, 2019
Inside Funder-Intermediary-Evaluator Partnerships: Three Cases
By Meg Long and Clare NolanFunders who have ambitious goals to change large systems often create partnerships with intermediaries…
- July 15, 2016
With Community Engagement How’s Your Collaborative Posture?
This post was originally published on May 10, 2016 on Communities Collaborating.Whether it is collective impact, or another collaboration…
- January 20, 2016
Engaging the Business Community in Collective Impact
The business community can be a powerful partner in collective impact. The overwhelming majority of collective impact initiative leaders…
- 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…
- July 14, 2015
When and How to Engage the Private Sector
Campbell Soup Company is implementing a 10-year, $10 million initiative to significantly reduce childhood obesity and hunger in the…
- July 14, 2015
Ten Lessons from Engaging the Business Community
Below are some lessons learned from private sector leaders and other community leaders who are actively engaged in collective…
- July 8, 2015
Building Capacity for Cross Sector Collaboration
In 2011, The HCA Foundation partnered with Lipscomb University and the Center for Nonprofit Management to develop a program…
- June 30, 2015
Cuddle Parties, and Other Tips for Cross-Sector Collaborations
This post was originally published on the blog Nonprofit with Balls on June 22, 2015.Hi everyone. If I seem…
- March 19, 2015
Turf, Trust and the Collaboration Spectrum
This post was originally published in the Tamarack Institute's Communities Collaborating blog on January 30, 2015.This week was bookended…
- February 9, 2015
How to Partner for Impact: The Nuts and Bolts of Aligning Collective Impact Efforts
This post marks the launch of a new Forum blog series on the nuts and bolts of aligning coalitions…
- September 12, 2014
Corralling Cross Sector Collaborations
“In any given week, you could go to three meetings and hear the same report three times.”“Too many people…
- July 25, 2014
Working Across Sectors Creates More Opportunity for America’s Youth
By Melody BarnesThis essay was originally published on the Aspen Institute Forum for Community Solutions on July 24, 2014.Just…
- 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…
- June 16, 2014
Differentiated Roles, Common Goals: Direct Service Providers and Collective Impact
“We’re the ones doing the work. Other people are trying to take credit for work we’ve done. It’s harder…
- April 23, 2014
Want Greater Impact? Have a Conversation First
This essay was originally posted to Philanthropy Northwest on April 2, 2014.Collective Impact, philanthropy’s flavor of the day, has…
