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Data in Collective Impact: Focusing on What Matters
Understanding data and using it effectively in collective impact can help achieve short- and long-term progress on shared goals.
Tag: Collective Impact
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Centering Racial Justice and Grassroots Ownership in Collective Impact
How a top-down coalition focused on reducing youth substance use in a predominantly white, rural area of Western Massachusetts has prioritized equity and community engagement.
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10 Dangers to Collective Impact
A look at the worst practices in using the collective impact approach for social change and lessons on how to avoid them.
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Reflecting on Collective Impact for Place-Based Social Change
Four nonprofit leaders discuss their experiences using collective impact for collaborative, place-based change, including their views on the role of data and philanthropy, and what lies ahead for this field of work.
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Interview: Bringing an Anti-Racist Approach to Collective Impact
Two collective impact leaders, Zea Malawa of Expecting Justice, and Miya Cain of FSG, discuss using the framework to achieve social change and how to put anti-racism at the center of cross-sector collaborations.
Collaboration
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.
Collaboration
Collective Impact 2.0
Authors of a seminal article on collective impact explore what it means to put equity at the center of the practice and how that changes the collective impact process itself.
Collaboration
Tackling Involuntary Retirement in South Korea
By combining a business ecosystem approach with collective impact, a South Korean initiative is battling late-life poverty and putting valuable professional knowledge back to work.
Economic Development
The Problem of Social Benefit
Economists have obsessed over the question of negative externalities, but market arrangements can also generate positive externalities. We should consider how to harness them for public good.
Nonprofits & NGOs
Building Relationships, Strengthening Neighborhoods
Systems change efforts that focus on boosting social capital and collective efficacy through building relationships within communities show promise. But do we have the patience to wait for them to work?