We encourage you to check out Paul Schmitz’s thoughtful comments on some of the real challenges communities face in implementing collective impact. Paul, CEO of Public Allies, emphasizes that collective impact work must be built on a base of trust across participants, that participants must focus on identifying and implementing the right coordinated approaches (not just the approaches that are easy to measure), and that community members must be engaged in new ways to create meaningful community change.
Read "The Real Challenge for Collective Impact," by Paul Schmitz on Huffington Post IMPACT.