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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…
Collective Impact Implementation Activity Checklist
While all initiatives play out differently due to local content, this checklist of suggested activities can help support the implementation of a collective imp…
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…