Collective Impact Blog

Recently, 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—for just about a year. Many of the steering committee members have been around the table for this initiative for over a year, and many have been working on this particular issue for their entire professional lives.

Collective Impact has been taken to a new level in Cincinnati, where the concept has blossomed under the support of the Greater Cincinnati Foundation (GCF).

Microbrews, Michigan,and college access networks: Read Emily Gorin Malenfant's post on Collective Impact for College Access on FSG's Education & Youth blog.

Last week, FSG and the Stanford Social Innovation Review co-hosted a webinar further exploring the issues and concepts presented in the article Channeling Change: Making Collective Impact Work. Moderated by Eric Nee, Managing Editor of SSIR, the session featured speakers Marc Van Amerigen, CEO of the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN); Kat Allen, Co-Chair of the Communities That Care Coalition of Franklin County and the North Quabbin; and John Kania, Managing Director at FSG. Focused specifically on the role of backbone organizations, the webinar delved deeper into the experiences of two very different coalitions featured prominently in the article: GAIN, a global alliance fighting malnutrition in over 30 countries, and Communities That Care, a community-based alliance reducing youth substance abuse in a rural region of Western Massachusetts.