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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 FSG's work with the Health a…
Job Descriptions for Backbone Roles
This document contains sample job descriptions for the roles of Executive Director, Project Coordinator, and Data Consultant to .assist with staffing these key…
Work Group Action Planning Template
This template, created by FSG, can be used by initiative working groups in the first or second meeting to help guide their structure and overall strategic dire…
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, the Greater Cincinnati Found…
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 Greater Cincinnati Found…
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 impact efforts.