Presentation from March 2016 Collective Impact Community of Practice
Sherry Baker has generously shared her presentation slides that outline how her initiative is using collective impact approach to make change
Resource Type: Audio Seminar || Speakers: Karasima Brands & Jane Worton
This three-part podcast series explores how to facilitate the meaningful participation of low-income individuals in leadership roles at both grassroots and more formal levels. The 1st podcast in this series uses The Quality of Life CHALLENGE as an example of including the poverty experience.
Resource Type: Audio Seminar || Speakers: VC St. John & VC St. Michel
This three-part podcast series explores how to facilitate the meaningful participation of low-income individuals in leadership roles at both grassroots and more formal levels.
Resource Type: Audio Seminar || Speakers: George Donahue, Catherine Goulet, Mary & Charles Ewing
This three-part podcast series explores how to facilitate the meaningful participation of low-income individuals in leadership roles at both grassroots and more formal levels. The 3rd podcast in this series explores how The Community Action Agency and Regent Park Neighbourhood Initiative are examples of capacity...
Resource Type: Publication | Authors: The White House Council on Community Solutions
This final paper if focused on the key issue of focus for The White House Council on Community Solutions: “putting every young person on a clear path to economic opportunity.”
Resource Type: Publication | Authors: Michele Jolin, Paul Schmitz, & Willa Seldon
This article reviews a number of highly successful cross-sector collaborative across the U.S., and synthesizes the core operating principles; key success factors; and supportive resources that are needed to support the collaborative’s primary roles.
Resource Type: Publication | Author: The Partnering Initiative
The Partnering Tool Book is an essential resource for those involved in cross-sector partnership work and offers “a concise overview of the essential elements that make for effective partnering.”
Resource Type: Publication | Author: The Partnering Initiative
Talking the Walk is a communications manual for Partnership Practitioners that highlights the “realities of communicating in partnership.” Each chapter includes a narrative as well as a number of boxes and tables giving examples or “Practitioner Tips.”
Resource Type: Toolbox | Author: White House Council on Community Solutions
This toolbox is a resource developed to support community leaders in establishing a multi-sector, collaborative approach to building healthy communities across America.
The role of business in community change and solving problems such as poverty is complex but absolutely essential. Listen to this call as Mark Chamberlain is president of Trivaris Limited in Hamilton, Ontario, shares his experience in operating a successful business as well as participating in the complex problems...
Resource Type: Publication | Author: White House Council on Community Solutions
This paper is one of the tools and resources developed to support collaborative approaches for building healthy communities across America.
Resource Type: Audio Seminar | Author: John Kania
Paul Born interviews John Kania about his fabulously fresh and popular paper Collective Impact which was published in The Stanford Social Innovation Review. They also explore ideas outlined in John's acclaimed new book Do More Than Give and explore the unifying themes between these two resources and their...
Examining the strengths and weaknesses of a range of various partnership arrangements
Partnerships are often used to explore new and creative ways to promote social and economic well-being. This paper profiles a range of collaborative work arrangements that, together, offer a forum to explore the concept of partnership from a range of different viewpoints.
Use this tool to help you figure out who your best partners in a community change effort.
An easy exercise to help you and your group determine your top 100 partners for community change.
A How-to Primer
This is a quick overview of the nature of multi-sector collaboration work.