- August 4, 2014
Vibrant Communities – Getting to Shared Outcomes
A very interesting meeting happened in Montreal in July. The J.W. McConnell Family Foundation, Ontario Trillium Foundation and the…
- July 31, 2014
Montana’s “Nested Collective Impact” Leverages Rural Community Connections
Montana recently hosted Jeff Edmondson of StriveTogether in a daylong workshop to explore collective impact in rural communities. Six…
- July 30, 2014
Developmental Evaluation in the Context of Collective Impact – Part 1
Making the Choice to Use Developmental EvaluationWhen the Missouri Foundation for Health decided to focus on decreasing infant mortality…
- July 28, 2014
What’s Equity got to do with it? It is the Key to Success
My colleagues and I posed this question—“What’s equity got to do with it?”—to those who took part in our…
- July 25, 2014
Working Across Sectors Creates More Opportunity for America’s Youth
By Melody BarnesThis essay was originally published on the Aspen Institute Forum for Community Solutions on July 24, 2014.Just…
- July 22, 2014
Putting the Community into Community Engagement
This essay was originally posted to The Huffington Post on July 10, 2014.Community. Engagement.These two words get a lot…
- July 17, 2014
Finding Our People … Just Like the Girl in the Bee Suit
This essay was originally posted to StriveTogether's Striving for Change blog on July 16, 2014.In the Blind Melon 90s…
Impacto Colectivo
Lograr cambio social a gran escala requiere de una amplia coordinación entre sectores, sin embargo, el sector social sigue…
- July 14, 2014
Building Cross Sector Collaboration “Muscle”
While several months back, May’s funder convening in Aspen showed that more grantmakers recognize that no single organization can…
Leading for Results with Patrick McCarthy
“I am going to weave four stories through my talk this evening, and they are four stories that start…
Leading for Results Panel Discussion
“You can’t be a passive funder in this kind of work. You have to have a point of view.…
Embracing Emergence and Collective Impact with John Kania
“How do we structure to take advantage of emergence? It’s a process of collective seeing, collective learning, and collective…
Embracing Emergence Panel Discussion
“We talk about getting everyone at the table. And I think we need to actually think about multiple tables.”
Putting Community in Collective Impact with Rich Harwood
“The narratives of our communities are the most important, hidden factor about whether our communities move forward or not.”
Sustaining the Movement: Promoting Quality Collective Impact
From the May 2014 convening Catalyzing Large Scale Change: The Funder’s Role in Collective Impact:
- July 10, 2014
Exploring Collective Impact – Perspectives from The Philanthropist
This post is a condensed version of my Guest Editorial for a special collective impact issue of The Philanthropist,…
- July 8, 2014
Eight Yummy Tensions of Collective Impact
This essay was originally posted to Living Cities' The Catalyst on July 3, 2014.I had the great fortune of…
- June 23, 2014
The Tango of Collective Impact
This weekend, I had the pleasure of watching couples dance the tango in a public square in London. The…
Setting a Common Agenda
This presentation gives a brief overview of how a common agenda can be developed, as well as examples from…
- June 16, 2014
Differentiated Roles, Common Goals: Direct Service Providers and Collective Impact
“We’re the ones doing the work. Other people are trying to take credit for work we’ve done. It’s harder…
