Jennifer Splansky Juster is Executive Director of the Collective Impact Forum. She is one of FSG’s leaders in collective impact field building, has worked on multiple collective impact engagements, designed training opportunities for thousands of collective impact practitioners, and frequently speaks on the topic. Jennifer has co-authored multiple publications on collective impact, including the report Guide to Evaluating Collective Impact and the articles “Centering Equity in Collective Impact,” “Committing to Collective Impact: From Vision to Implementation,” and “Essential Mindset Shifts for Collective Impact.” Over the course of her career, Jennifer has also worked with a range of foundations, nonprofits, government agencies, and corporations across sectors on issues of strategy, evaluation, and program design. Former clients include the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Conrad N. Hilton Foundation, Marin Community Foundation, Girard College, the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, and Silicon Valley ALLIES. A California native, Jennifer is a graduate of Stanford University and Northwestern’s Kellogg School of Management. She lives in Berkeley, California with her husband and two daughters.
From the Blog
- July 18, 2024
Inside Philanthropy: The Power of Place-Based Partnerships in the Fight for Equity
In a new guest column for Inside Philanthropy, Jennifer Splansky Juster, Monique Miles, and Cindy Santos issue a call to action for philanthropy to support equ…
- July 7, 2022
Resources to Advance Equity Practice: Survey Findings
In March 2022, the Collective Impact Forum conducted a survey called “Resources to Advance Equity Practice.” The purpose of this survey was to learn more abou…
- November 29, 2021
Reflections on Collective Impact, 10 Years Later
This week, the Collective Impact Forum is pleased to launch the series Collective Impact, 10 Years Later a sponsored series in partnership with the Stanford So…
- November 11, 2021
Redefining Collective Impact
The year 2021 marks 10 years since the publication of the article “Collective Impact” in Stanford Social Innovation Review, authored by my FSG colleagues John …
- August 5, 2020
How is the Collective Impact Community Navigating this Moment?
In early July 2020, we asked how folks are responding to the moment we find ourselves in. The survey focused mainly on how collaborative work has changed as a …
- March 12, 2020
Avoiding Pitfalls with the Collective Impact Principles of Practice
No two collective impact initiative are the same … that of course is the reality of working to make progress on complex, systemic issues. However, one thing t…