Healing Systems
How recognizing trauma in ourselves, other people, and the systems around us can open up new pathways to solving social problems.
John Kania
The Power of Relationships to Transform Systems
Californians for Justice has elevated the power of young people by establishing authentic relationships between them and teachers, educators, and officials. In so doing, it has remade education in the state and crafted a model for broader social change.
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The Relational Work of Systems Change
Collective impact efforts must prioritize working together in more relational ways to find systemic solutions to social problems.
Centering Equity in Collective Impact
A decade of applying the collective impact approach to address social problems has taught us that equity is central to the work.
Preventing System ‘Snap Back’
Because systems naturally resist change, systems thinkers must learn to build change with resilience.
Effective Change Requires Proximate Leaders
Leaders who arise from the communities and issues they serve have the experience, relationships, data, and knowledge that are essential for developing solutions with measurable and sustainable impact.
Evaluating Community Change
A collective impact effort in Greater Cincinnati offers a useful framework for evaluating community change.
The Equity Imperative in Collective Impact
The five conditions of collective impact, implemented without attention to equity, are not enough to create lasting change.
The Dawn of System Leadership
The deep changes necessary to accelerate progress against society's most intractable problems require someone who catalyzes collective leadership.
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Essential Mindset Shifts for Collective Impact
To be effective, collective impact must consider who is engaged, how they work together, and how progress happens.
UP FOR DEBATE
Strategic Philanthropy for a Complex World
Foundations need to adopt a more emergent approach to strategic philanthropy.
Nonprofit Management
Embracing Emergence: How Collective Impact Addresses Complexity
Collective impact is upending conventional wisdom on how we achieve social progress.
Understanding the Value of Backbone Organizations in Collective Impact: Part 3
An in-depth review of what it takes to be a backbone organization, and how to evaluate and support its work.
Understanding the Value of Backbone Organizations in Collective Impact: Part 2
An in-depth review of what it takes to be a backbone organization, and how to evaluate and support its work.
Nonprofits & NGOs
Understanding the Value of Backbone Organizations in Collective Impact: Part 1
An in-depth review of what it takes to be a backbone organization, and how to evaluate and support its work.
Nonprofit Management
Channeling Change: Making Collective Impact Work
This follow-up on the popular "Collective Impact" article provides updated, in-depth guidance.
Socially Responsible Business
Roundtable on Shared Value
Executives from 10 major corporations discuss the innovative ways that they are putting societal issues at the core of their companies’ strategy and operations.
Essentials of Social Innovation
Collective Impact
Large-scale social change requires broad cross-sector coordination, not the isolated intervention of individual organizations.
A New Role for Nonprofits
Sidebar to "Changing the Game:" tips for nonprofits when creating a partnership with a company.