Advancing Your Collective Impact Work in Today’s Context is a recorded virtual office hour space for community member questions about doing collective work during current times. Along with answering questions, our team shared resources and recommendations, drawn from our experience working with collaboratives and the broader field. This office hour was held on June 5, 2026.
Questions explored in this session include:
- How are we ensuring the value proposition of collective impact work resonates with funders in the current landscape?
- How can we sustain a collective impact without significant funding?
- Do you have any recommendations for navigating risks associated with implementing advocacy strategies in this context?
- How do we move forward and keep everyone focused and actively working towards goals related to equity in this anti-DEI climate?
- Best tips for navigating situations where the backbone entity has taken “ownership” and creating divisions?
Please see below the video for links to resources referenced during this session:
Session Guests
- Courtney W. Robertson, Director of Programs and Partnerships, Collective Impact Forum
- Paul Schmitz, Senior Advisor, Collective Impact Forum
- Junious Williams, Senior Advisor, Collective Impact Forum
Referenced Resources
Strategy Triage Tool from Center for Community Investment
Advocacy: What You Can and Can’t Do – a two-part webinar series that addresses advocacy for both nonprofits and government workers
Responding to Threats and Challenges Planning Tool and Remaining Focused and Purpose-Led During Uncertainty: A Reflection Guide for Funders
Compendium of Collective Impact Resources: The Five Phases
Legal Resources related to DEI Work
– Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under the Laws
– ABFE: Association of Black Foundation Executives
– NYU Law School Meltzer Center for Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging and their new book How Equality Wins
– National Council of Nonprofits
