Marshall Ganz reflects on community organizing for greater impact. This keynote presentation occurred on May 24, 2017, at the Collective Impact Convening.

Learning to make change in turn is not a matter of following a blueprint but rather discovering pathways to learning as we go. The process of changing the future is not anything anyone has a blueprint to. It’s a pathway we have to discover. And we have to be smart about discovering that pathway by honestly assessing our failures, learning from them and our successes as well. And because in organizing, commitment is the foundation of power because you’re asking people to commit their time, it is a fundamental skill, learning how to ask people for commitment.

Source: Collective Impact Forum