Collective Impact Warm-Up Exercises for Meetings
These slides are a compendium of exercises used with both working groups and steering committees.
Sustaining the Movement: Promoting Quality Collective Impact
From the May 2014 convening Catalyzing Large Scale Change: The Funder’s Role in Collective Impact:
Backbone Support Assessment Worksheet
Communities often have more than one organization that can take on aspects of an overarching leadership and coordination role.…
Shape Up Somerville: Building and Sustaining a Healthy Community with Collective Impact
This video profiles Shape Up Somerville's collective impact journey, and includes interviews with Dr. Christina Economos, principal investigator, and…
Tools for Working Groups
This toolkit includes a number of tools for Working Groups as they form, determine strategic direction, develop implementation plans,…
Tools for Steering Committees
This toolkit includes a number of tools for the formation of a Steering Committee.
Tools for Backbones
This toolkit includes a number of tools for establishing the infrastructure of a Collective Impact Backbone.
Working Group Planning Template
This template was developed through FSG's work with the Rio Grande Valley Focus collective impact initiative to help their…
Working Group Instructions for Developing Shared Metrics
This Working Group guide is for a meeting focused on identifying indicators and/or key data points for shared measurement…
Steering Committee Meeting Agendas
This is a set of six steering committee meeting agendas for the first six months of a collective impact…
Steering Committee Discussion Tool
This tool could be used at a 1st or 2nd steering committee meeting to help members share their personal…
Work Group Reporting Template for Developing Shared Metrics
This Working Group Reporting Template is intended to assist with identifying indicators or key data points for shared measurement,…
Steering Committee Governance Agreement
This sample agreement can be used to help ensure that steering committee members are aware of their role and…
Steering Committee and Working Group Roles
This memo summarizes the key responsibilities of Steering Committee and Working Group members and was developed through FSG's work…
Work Group Meeting Planning and Execution Checklist
This checklist is intended to help backbone organizations with work group meeting planning and execution and was developed through…
Job Descriptions for Backbone Roles
This document contains sample job descriptions for the roles of Executive Director, Project Coordinator, and Data Consultant to .assist…
Work Group Action Planning Template
This template, created by FSG, can be used by initiative working groups in the first or second meeting to…
Measuring Backbone Contributions to Collective Impact
In this two-part series on Stanford Social Innovation Review’s blog, FSG’s Katherine Errecart and Anjali Bhatt, and Shiloh Turner,…
Exerting Influence Without Formal Authority
In this two-part series on Stanford Social Innovation Review’s blog, FSG’s Katherine Errecart and Anjali Bhatt, and Shiloh Turner,…
The Value of Backbone Organizations in Collective Impact
FSG and The Greater Cincinnati Foundation (GCF) partnered to understand and evaluate the role of backbone organizations in collective…
