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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…

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Collective Impact Education & Youth
Making Collective Impact Work: Discipline, Adaptability, and Sitting Down to Family Dinner
June 18, 2012
Kat Allen
Hello Fellow Fans of Collective Impact!
Corporate/CSR Shared Value
Measuring Shared Value – The Cart Before the Horse?
June 13, 2012
Greg Hills
This post originally appeared on CECP's blog.If you don’t fully understand the concept of “shared value,” I can assure you you’re not alone.
Education & Youth
New Ideas for Developing Great Leaders in Education
June 13, 2012
Ellen Martin
What makes a great leader in the education system today? It’s a question that I’ve considered at different points in my career -- as a consultant at FSG, certa…
Collective Impact
Is This the Decade of Collaborative Philanthropy?
June 12, 2012
Robert Albright
In his Spring 2012 Stanford Social Innovation Review column on “A Decade of Outcome-Oriented Philanthropy,” Paul Brest, the outgoing president of the William a…
Shared Value
A Shared Value Community of Practice
June 11, 2012
Lalitha Vaidyanathan
Eighty-five individuals – mostly senior corporate executives – gathered at the Charles Hotel in Boston on May 31 to spend a day deepening their practice of Sha…
Collective Impact U.S. Health
Sticker Shock at the Mailbox
June 11, 2012
Rebecca Yael Weissburg
“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
Collective Impact in the UK
June 7, 2012
Mike Stamp
Over 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…
Education & Youth
Closing the Rural-Urban Gap: The REAP Model
June 4, 2012
Jessica Davies
REAP (The Rural Education Action Project) was founded in 2007 with a double mission.
Collective Impact
Funding Successful Collaborations
June 4, 2012
Jane Wei-Skillern
Professor Wei-Skillern’s decade of research on successful nonprofit collaborations highlights key success factors that closely align with the behavioral change…
Education & Youth
One Country, Two Worlds – China’s Education Divide
May 29, 2012
Jessica Davies
A spot at Tsinghua University, where I’ve been based these past six months, is awarded each year to the top few thousand students sitting the gruelling gaokao,…

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