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Request for Proposals for a Backbone Organization
This is a request for proposals (RFP) for the identification of a backbone organization.
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. This tool outlines several attri…
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 David Hud…
Tools for Working Groups
This toolkit includes a number of tools for Working Groups as they form, determine strategic direction, develop implementation plans, and identify measurement …