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- Foundation Strategy
Embracing an Ecosystem Approach for Philanthropy
Funders are shifting from being at the center of social change efforts to working in close partnership with the…
- Corporate/CSR
Flying through Interference
We believe that corporate changemakers need tools to properly diagnose interference and build enabling conditions for social impact strategies…
Making Collective Impact Work: Discipline, Adaptability, and Sitting Down to Family Dinner
June 18, 2012Hello Fellow Fans of Collective Impact!
Is This the Decade of Collaborative Philanthropy?
June 12, 2012In his Spring 2012 Stanford Social Innovation Review column on “A Decade of Outcome-Oriented Philanthropy,” Paul Brest, the outgoing president of the William a…
Sticker Shock at the Mailbox
June 11, 2012“You have GOT to be kidding me!” I muttered, as I juggled my cell phone, grocery bag, purse, and bike helmet to open the medical bill that just arrived in my m…
Collective Impact in the UK
June 7, 2012Over at the Guardian website, Tim Cooper has an interesting post pointing to STRIVE (one of the examples of collective impact that my colleagues John Kania and…
Funding Successful Collaborations
June 4, 2012Professor Wei-Skillern’s decade of research on successful nonprofit collaborations highlights key success factors that closely align with the behavioral change…
Collective Impact, Metaphorically Speaking
May 28, 2012FSGers have been traveling the world talking about collective impact with various audiences. When we speak about the fact that isolated impact – while well int…
Making Shared Measurement Work
May 23, 2012I have been excited to hear about many of the collective impact initiatives going on across the country and around the world as a way to address complex social…
Signs of System Change
May 21, 2012Society is beginning to recognize that the problems we face- hunger, homelessness, poverty, disease- are systemic in nature. These problems involve a group of …
Celebrating Success Loudly
April 23, 2012Recently, I was talking with members of a Collective Impact steering committee. FSG has been involved with the effort—helping to facilitate and guide the work—…
Connecting People and Places in Cincinnati
April 17, 2012Collective Impact has been taken to a new level in Cincinnati, where the concept has blossomed under the support of the Greater Cincinnati Foundation (GCF).