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The Essential Skills of Cross-Sector Leadership
Becoming an effective cross-sector leader requires a set of skills built around three broad areas: building teams, solving problems, and achieving impact.
Collaboration - Articles
Innovative ways organizations can work together to increase their overall reach and efficacy (more)
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Cocreating a Change-Making Culture
When collaboratives get intentional about culture, they can more quickly and more effectively tackle social problems at the magnitude at which they exist.
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Creating a Cross Sector Leadership Network
The James Irvine Foundation’s New Leadership Network provides lessons about how to foster civic innovation.
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Profile: Hollaback Cofounder Emily May
Emily May created the online platform Hollaback, where women subjected to sexual harassment can share their stories.
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The Progressive Resurgence of Federalism
With a US federal government divided and unable to address key social problems, state and local government leaders have a critical role to play in fostering local social innovation.
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Profile: FUSE Fellow Siobhan Foley
Siobhan Foley has worked closely with New Orleans Mayor Mitchell Landrieu to help the city adapt to climate change.
Beyond the Backbone
Three alternatives to the backbone organization—a fundamental aspect of collective impact efforts—that can help ground collaborations focused on systemic change.
Open Source Software Is Philanthropy
When properly supported, open source software can spark innovation, accelerate social good, and ultimately help change the world.
Avoiding the Neoliberal Trap in Social Entrepreneurship
Seven lessons for walking the tight rope between social welfare and business.
A Force for Equity in Parent Engagement
How an educational access collaborative evolved to give parents more say in creating educational opportunities for their children and help expand opportunities for first-generation students.