Karen Pittman

CEO, The Forum for Youth Investment

Collective impact is here to stay. It has become the water in which we swim in our efforts to help communities move the needle on youth outcomes. The Forum is proud to be not only a Collective Impact Forum Partner, but an active Forum contributor. I count myself as a major FSG fan.

Recent Posts From Karen Pittman

February 9, 2015
How to Partner for Impact: The Nuts and Bolts of Aligning Collective Impact Efforts
Karen Pittman
This post marks the launch of a new Forum blog series on the nuts and bolts of aligning coalitions and initiatives for collective impact.For more than a decade…
December 17, 2014
Achieving Collective Impact Starts with Asking Hard Questions
Karen Pittman
This essay was first published at Youth Thrive on Oct. 28, 2014.Communities across the country are embracing the collective impact approach as a way to move th…
September 12, 2014
Corralling Cross Sector Collaborations
Karen Pittman
“In any given week, you could go to three meetings and hear the same report three times.”“Too many people are coming to us with too many asks.”These are some o…
July 22, 2014
Putting the Community into Community Engagement
Karen Pittman
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…
May 19, 2014
The Importance of “Emergence” in the Youth Field
Karen Pittman
I don’t know if he could hear it from the podium, but there was an audible “ah-hah” moment from the audience when John Kania spoke two weeks ago at the Ready b…

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Karen Pittman

CEO, The Forum for Youth Investment

Recent Posts From Karen Pittman

How to Partner for Impact: The Nuts and Bolts of Aligning Collective Impact Efforts

Achieving Collective Impact Starts with Asking Hard Questions

Corralling Cross Sector Collaborations

Putting the Community into Community Engagement

The Importance of “Emergence” in the Youth Field

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