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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…
Collective Impact for Opportunity Youth Report
This report by FSG outlines how a collective impact approach can improve outcomes for Opportunity Youth (i.e., youth between the ages of 16 and 24 who are neit…
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…
Collective Impact Article
This is the original FSG article describing collective impact, published in the Winter 2011 Stanford Social Innovation Review.