Collective Impact

Collective Impact for Opportunity Youth

Fay Hanleybrown, Kate Tallant, Adria Steinberg, Mimi Corcoran

This report outlines how a collective impact approach can improve outcomes for Opportunity Youth.

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Understanding the Value of Backbone Organizations in Collective Impact

Shiloh Turner, Kathy Merchant, John Kania, Ellen Martin

An in-depth review of what it takes to be a backbone organization, and how to evaluate and support its work.

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Channeling Change: Making Collective Impact Work

Fay Hanleybrown, John Kania, Mark Kramer

Despite the difficulty of getting collective impact efforts off the ground, those involved report a new sense of optimism that dawns early on in the process.

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Collective Impact - John Kania

John Kania, Managing Director at FSG talks about Collective Impact.

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Collective Impact Conference Video

This recorded livestream from the Collective Impact Conference on March 23, 2011 hosted by FSG and the Stanford Social Innovation Review is broken out into four sections.

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School Turnaround Field Guide

Jeff Kutash, Eva Nico, Emily Gorin, Samira Rahmatullah, Kate Tallant

This report offers a field assessment of actors, issues, key gaps and early lessons learned in turning around failing schools.

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Executive Summary

Better Outcomes, Lower Costs:
How Community-Based Funders Can Transform U.S. Health Care

Mark Kramer, Dr. Atul Gawande

Mark Kramer and Dr. Atul Gawande discuss the untapped potential for community-based funders to transform the cost and quality of health care in the United States.

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White House Council for Community Solutions Collective Impact Session

John Kania leads a session on Collective Impact at the White House Council for Community Solutions, February 4, 2011.

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Smallholder Farmer Development: International Donor Funding Trends

Marc Pfitzer, Valerie Bockstette, Simon Meier, Jessica Davies

Agricultural development, and more specifically, the critical role of smallholder farmers, has received renewed attention from the global community in the past few years. Smallholders represent one of the world's most exciting and important development opportunities.

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Champions for Change: Workshop on Leading a Backbone Organization for Collective Impact

Learn about the exchange that took place between collective impact practitioners at the Backbone Workshop in Cincinnati, OH in March 2013.

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Collective Impact: Implementing Shared Measurement

Fay Hanleybrown

This webinar is focused on the process of designing and implementing innovative shared measurement models, a key condition for collective impact.

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The Promise of Citywide Charter Strategies

Jeff Kutash, John Kania, Robert Albright, Julie Obbard

This report examines the potential for citywide charter strategies as a key leverage point for increasing charter school quality.

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Advancing Philanthropy in Switzerland: A Vision for a Cooperative and Recognized Philanthropic Sector

Marc Pfitzer, Valerie Bockstette, Mike Stamp

To dramatically transform Swiss philanthropy, funders must undertake strategies to catalyze cooperation and put philanthropy on the map.

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United Front 2011: The Power of Collective Impact

This video from Twin Cities United Way showcases Collective Impact efforts in Minnesota.

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Better Outcomes, Lower Costs:
How Community-Based Funders Can Transform U.S. Health Care

Mark Kramer and Dr. Atul Gawande discuss the untapped potential for community-based funders to transform the cost and quality of health care in the United States.

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School Turnaround: A Brief Overview of the Landscape and Key Issues

Jeff Kutash, Eva Nico, Emily Gorin, Kate Tallant, Samira Rahmatullah

This report, prepared for attendees of FSG’s national school turnaround conference in January 2010, highlights effective practices, policies, and conditions for success, and needed capacities for tackling turnaround on a national scale.

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Multiplying Impact through Philanthropic Collaboration

Marc Pfitzer, Mike Stamp

Philanthropic collaboration is essential in order to assemble sufficient assets, expertise and influence to create social impact.

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Private Enterprise for Public Health: Opportunities for Business to Improve Women's and Children's Health

A guide for how companies can create shared value in women's and children's health.

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Why Engage the Public Sector and How?

Greg Hills, Maximilian Martin

This article explores different ways in which foundations can interact with governments in order to achieve social impact.

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Investing in Change: Funding Collective Impact Efforts

Learn about the unique and critical role of funders in collective impact efforts to achieve large scale social change.

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Collective Impact in Cartagena

FSG's Laura Herman presents Collective Impact at the Transforming Philanthropy Conference in Cartagena, Colombia.

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Developing a Master Data Sharing Agreement: Seeking Student-Level Evidence to Support a Collaborative Community Effort in Education

Neil E. Carlson, Edwin Hernández, Chaná Edmond-Verley, Gustavo Rotondaro, Eleibny Feliz-Santana, Susan Heynig

How the development of a data sharing agreement was key to providing the longitudinal, student-level data required to drive and evaluate multiple efforts to close the achievement gap in an urban neighborhood.

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Collective Impact in Action: Reform in the New York State Juvenile Justice System

FSG's Mark Kramer, John Kania, and Fay Hanleybrown discuss working with a cross-sectoral set of actors on a collective impact effort.

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Rethinking International Development in a Converging World

Gib Bulloch, Chris Jurgens and Peter Lacy

This report from Accenture Development Partnerships explores the concept of "Convergence" which calls for cross-sector collaboration among NGO's, governments and corporations to solve global development problems.

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Collective Impact: Embracing Emergence Webinar

This webinar explores how to address complexity in collective impact and create an intentional process that allows for effective solutions.

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NS Raghavan on Way to Change Indian Philanthropy

Naren Karunakaran

Nadathur S. Raghavan's plan to chaperone Indian philanthropy from a charitable, crisis-alleviation mode to a sector that can take on larger developmental issues. The emphasis of his strategy is to engender transformational change through collective impact.

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The Networked Nonprofit

Jane Wei-Skillern and Sonia Marciano

The success of some networked nonprofits suggests that organizations should focus less on growing themselves and more on cultivating their networks.

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Collective Impact for Opportunity Youth Webinar

Learn how collective impact can be applied to the unique needs of Opportunity Youth and why a new approach is needed to re-engage this population.

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Collective Impact: How Can SVP Create Large Scale Social Change?

Fay Hanleybrown

In this podcast from Social Venture Partners International, Fay Hanleybrown leads a discussion about collective impact.

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Collective Impact Practitioner Insights: Kat Allen, Communities That Care Coalition

Kat Allen, Coalition Coordinator of the Communities That Care Coalition, discusses a collective impact approach to teen substance abuse prevention in rural Massachusetts.

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Mark Kramer at the United Front 2011 Power of Collective Impact Conference

Mark Kramer's keynote presentation on Collective Impact at the United Front conference in St. Paul, MN on October 6, 2011.

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Collective Impact Practitioner Insights: Paul Born & Liz Weaver, Tamarack Institute

Paul Born, President and Liz Weaver, Vice President of the Tamarack Institute discuss reducing poverty using a collective impact approach.

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Charting a Course for Change: Advancing Education, Income and Health Through Collective Impact

A United Way roadmap of core community strategies to boost education, income and health, along with evidence-based implementation approaches.

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John Kania presents W. T. McCullough Lecture

FSG's John Kania speaks about collective impact at the Human Services Institute's W. T. McCullough lecture on May 18, 2012.

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Race to the Top District Competition: Collective Impact and Blended Classrooms

This presentation was created for a webinar on The Race to the Top District Competition.

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Collective Impact Practitioner Insights: Ross Meyer, Partners for a Competitive Workforce

Ross Meyer, Executive Director of Partners for a Competitive Workforce, on collective impact in workforce development in Cincinnati, Kentucky and Indiana.

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Collective Impact Practitioner Insights: Susan Dawson, E3 Alliance

Susan Dawson, President and Executive Director, E3 Alliance discusses leading a cradle to career collective impact initiative in Austin, Texas.

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Collective Impact Practitioner Insights: Blair Taylor, Memphis Tomorrow

Blair Taylor, President of Memphis Tomorrow, discusses leading a multi-issue collaborative to advance Memphis, Tennessee using the collective impact approach.

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Fay Hanleybrown at the United Way of Pierce County's Community Collective Action Event

FSG's Fay Hanleybrown speaks about collective impact at the United Way of Pierce County's Community Collective Action Event on October 30, 2012.

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Canaliser le changement: Comment réussir l’impact collectif

Fay Hanleybrown, John Kania, Mark Kramer

Cet article fait suite à l’article initial de FSG paru dans le numéro Hiver 2011 de la Stanford Social Innovation Review. Il explore de nouveaux exemples d’impact collectif tout en donnant des conseils pratiques pour ceux cherchant à initier ou mener une telle initiative.

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Nonprofit Networking: The New Way to Grow

Martha Lagace

How can a nonprofit increase its social impact? The answer could be in the power of strategic networks--mobilizing resources beyond organizational boundaries to achieve their social aims.

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The Power of Collective Impact

Mark Kramer

This podcast, featuring Mark Kramer, focuses on the intricacies of the collective impact model and was recorded at the United Front 2011 conference.

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Coming Together to Give Schools a Boost

David Bornstein

David Bornstein explores how the collective impact strategy of creating alliances of civic and business leaders is being applied to social problems across the nation.

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Encauzamiento del cambio: cómo lograr que el impacto colectivo funcione

Fay Hanleybrown, John Kania, Mark Kramer

A pesar de la dificultad para lograr que los esfuerzos de impacto colectivo levanten vuelo, los involucrados informan una renovada sensación de optimismo que surge en las primeras etapas del proceso.

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Leading a Backbone Organization for Collective Impact: A Conversation with Faculty

Backbone workshop Q&A on funder engagement, measurement and emergence in collective impact.

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