How Can a Collaborative Radically Restart?
What does it look like for a collaborative to shift from nearly sunsetting to achieving a vibrant renewal?We tackle…
How to Influence without Authority
A backbone’s role in a collective is often to facilitate collaboration among partners and help the group make progress…
Responding to Threats and Challenges Planning Tool
This tool was designed so that people can better understand their core commitments and act on them during a…
Why is Backbone Leadership Different?
We talk with Paul Schmitz and Dominique Samari, authors of the recent report, “Backbone Leadership Is Different," to learn…
The Skills and Mindset Shifts Backbones Need for Collective Impact
In this one hour session, Dominique Samari, JD and Paul Schmitz, authors of the newly released report “Backbone Leadership…
Backbone Leadership Is Different: The Skills and Mindset Shifts Needed for Collective Impact
Leading a collective impact initiative is different and more complex than leading a traditional organization.Unlike a more hierarchical organization,…
Navigating the Backbone Role: Virtual Office Hour
In this virtual office hour, Collective Impact Forum’s Jennifer Splansky Juster, Courtney W. Robertson, and Paul Schmitz answered questions…
What Makes an Effective Backbone Leader
To find out what contributes to an effective and sustainable backbone, the EdRedesign Lab at Harvard University interviewed backbone leaders…
How to Navigate Backbone Challenges: Virtual Office Hour
In this virtual office hour, Collective Impact Forum's Jennifer Splansky Juster, Courtney W. Robertson, and Paul Schmitz answered questions…
Supporting a Sustainable and Resilient Collaboration – Part 2
This episode is the second part of a two-part discussion that explores what practices can help a collaborative be…
Supporting a Sustainable and Resilient Collaboration – Part 1
What practices can support the sustainability and resiliency of a long-term collaboration?This podcast episode is the first of a…
How to Support a Sustainable and Resilient Collaboration
In this webinar, we discuss practices that can support a sustainable collaborative.As part of the discussion, we explore the…
Exploring Backbone Staffing and Peer Support Models with United Way of Salt Lake
How can a backbone build structures and processes that can better support and retain its staff?In this new podcast…
Avoiding the 10 Dangers to Collective Impact
In this episode, Collective Impact Forum senior advisor Paul Schmitz shares what he’s learned through supporting many collective impact…
Bringing an Anti-Racist Approach to Collective Impact: Interview with Dr. Zea Malawa
How can the collective impact approach put anti-racism at the center of its work? How can collective impact work…
How to Manage Differences and Difficult Conversations: Virtual Office Hour
In this virtual office hour session, Collective Impact Forum team members answer questions about ways to approach challenging conversations.
How to Lead Through Uncertainty: Virtual Office Hour
In this virtual office hour, Collective Impact Forum team members answer questions about ways to approach leading teams while…
How to Embed Clear Roles and Responsibilities across Your Collective Impact Governance
In this virtual office hour, we answer questions about how to establish and maintain role clarity within a collective…
What is the Role of the Backbone in Collective Impact?
What does it mean to play the backbone role for a collective impact initiative?
Team Color Check-In Tool
The Collective Impact Forum team created this "color check" tool to help encourage honest conversations within the team on…
