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Cultivating the Leader Within: Insights from the CLARE Program
People leading place-based collaboratives play a critical role, known as the backbone, in sustaining the long-term work required to strengthen communities and …
How Can a Collaborative Radically Restart?
What does it look like for a collaborative to shift from nearly sunsetting to achieving a vibrant renewal?We tackle this challenging question in the 100th epis…
How to Influence without Authority
A backbone’s role in a collective is often to facilitate collaboration among partners and help the group make progress toward a shared goal. This can be a comp…
Responding to Threats and Challenges Planning Tool
This tool was designed so that people can better understand their core commitments and act on them during a rapidly changing environment.
Why is Backbone Leadership Different?
We talk with Paul Schmitz and Dominique Samari, authors of the recent report, “Backbone Leadership Is Different," to learn about how backbone leadership is uni…
The Skills and Mindset Shifts Backbones Need for Collective Impact
In this one hour session, Dominique Samari, JD and Paul Schmitz, authors of the newly released report “Backbone Leadership is Different: The Skills and Mindset…