Collective Impact - John Kania

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

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Karen Pittman	(2/20/2011 12:18:29 PM)

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Thanks to FSG for articulating and giving name to the simple but powerful work that has to be done to change how all of us -- funders, non-profits, government agencies, community collaboratives -- do business and for highlighting Strive, one of the strongest examples of a collective impact structure that is achieving success. Two points: 1) There are indeed other communities actively building this capacity that have lessons to share. The Ready by 21 Partnership is working with 6 Southeast communities, some of which have used the Strive model to build their partnership and set goals. 2) Collective impact is only achieved if all agree on a complete slate of shared goals. Asking each funder to think about using this approach to achieve their goal, without first developing shared accountability for the "cradle to career" continuum, results in the proliferation of single-issue collaboratives that add-on process but don't add up to sustainable, scaleable change.

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Emily Gorin	(2/25/2011 11:54:47 AM)

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Thanks Karen! The Ready by 21 Partnership sounds like a great example- we'll look into it more! It's exciting to see what we can learn from collective impact efforts already underway. I definitely agree with your second point, and would point to the set of public, private, business, and corporate funders coming together in Cincinnati around Strive as a great example of this. Collective impact must really be just that-- collective! The alignment around common goals must happen not just at the grantee level, but at the funder level too.