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- Corporate/CSR, Global Health, U.S. Health
The Power of Precision: How to Reveal What Blocks Health Equity Progress
The journey from surface-level solutions to structural change begins with the courage to confront what lies beneath and the…

- Foundation Strategy
Leading through Uncertainty: Three Questions for Funders
Here are three common questions that we've been hearing from our philanthropic partners during this time of uncertainty.
Experimenting with Collective Impact for Childhood Obesity: The 5 Conditions
October 7, 2013In today’s 3rd post of our 4-blog series, we explore how the 5 conditions of collective impact—common agenda, shared measurement, mutually reinforcing activiti…
Using Collective Impact in a Public Health Context: Introduction
September 30, 2013In today’s 1st post of our 4-blog series, we introduce seven initiatives that are using elements of collective impact to address childhood obesity and other pu…
Help Us Build the Collective Impact Community (and 8 New Case Studies)
September 25, 2013As the idea of collective impact continues to gain traction, more and more organizations in communities across the country are coming together to develop initi…
The Single Most Powerful Way to Describe Collective Impact
September 16, 2013I recently spoke with the Director of Curriculum and Instruction at a small school district in Ohio that is participating in a collective impact effort focused…
The Future of Healthcare in America
September 5, 2013I was recently on a call with a large national US Health funder who asked us the question, “Where is the field of collective impact in healthcare headed?” This…
Aspen Institute Fund Supports Collective Impact for Opportunity Youth
August 12, 2013Exciting collective impact news!
Collaboration to Transform Indicators into “Markers That Matter”
July 24, 2013I had the recent pleasure of working on FSG’s recently released report Markers that Matter: Success Indicators for Early Learning and Education.
Why Is The U.S. Healthcare System Still Broken & How Do We Start Fixing It?
July 11, 2013Spoiler alert: the U.S. healthcare system is horribly broken. Okay, maybe that doesn’t actually come as much of a shock to anyone who has read a newspaper hea…
Coalition Fatigue and Collective Impact
July 1, 2013Bangladesh’s garment industry has been in the news – and the hot seat – lately in light of the Rana Plaza tragedy. Over 1000 lives were lost in the worst indus…