Essential Mindset Shifts for Collective Impact
To be effective, collective impact must consider who is engaged, how they work together, and how progress happens.
The Role of Grantmakers in Collective Impact
Grantmakers can catalyze connections and lay the groundwork for collective impact initiatives to take shape.
Achieving Collective Impact for Opportunity Youth
This is part of a compilation of nine new articles about collective impact.
- August 21, 2014
Which Form of Collaboration is Best for You?
Increasingly, grantmakers and nonprofits understand that collaboration is critical for social change. One form of collaboration, collective impact is…
Roundtable on Community Engagement and Collective Impact
Collective impact efforts are often discussed in terms of organizations or sectors, such as business, nonprofit, government, and philanthropy.
- August 13, 2014
Presenting: Collective Insights on Collective Impact, Nine New Articles on Collective Impact
by Fay Hanleybrown, FSG, Steve Patrick, Aspen Institute Forum for Community Solutions, Sheri Brady, Aspen Institute Forum for Community…
- August 12, 2014
A Mayor’s View: The Effect of Collective Impact Initiatives on City Hall
By Ronda JacksonThis interview was originally posted to Living Cities' The Catalyst on July 29, 2014.In our journey to…
- August 6, 2014
It Takes a Community: Newark Comes Together to Make the Most of Summer for their Youth
Across the nation, community leaders have increasingly recognized the promise of summer to accelerate student learning. But to maximize…
- August 5, 2014
Developmental Evaluation in the Context of Collective Impact – Part 2
This is the second part of a two-part series on developmental evaluation and collective impact. Read part 1.In Part…
- 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.…