This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. After seven years visiting and consulting with more than 100 collective impact efforts around the world, I’ve drawn one main conclusion: Collective impact is really, really hard. On one hand,…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. In October 2018, the Mayor of San Francisco, in collaboration with Tipping Point Community, launched the Rising Up campaign to halve homelessness among people ages 18 to 24. To reach…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. After years of working as a pediatrician in safety-net clinics in San Francisco, Dr. Zea Malawa recognized that her clinical care of Black and Brown families often didn’t address the…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. When people think of ways to help the world’s poor, a few obvious ideas come to mind: giving them cash; preventing diseases like malaria through the distribution of bed nets…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. What is cross-sector collaboration and why does it matter? In sum, it is about bringing together different groups that are working on similar problems and combining their efforts to achieve…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. In the middle of the 19th century, the likelihood of death during childbirth was extraordinarily high. In Vienna, two maternity wards, one staffed by male doctors and one staffed by…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) embody many of the world’s foremost priorities for cooperation. Protecting people. Promoting prosperity. Preserving the planet. Even before the COVID-19 pandemic took hold, the objectives…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. It’s easy to say that organizations should be collaborative, but what does that actually mean? And what does it take from executives and board members to actually make it happen?…
Sometimes philanthropists — even the most well-intentioned ones — can “capture” the social movements they fund and then steer grassroots organizations and activists away from their original missions. We explore…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. In 2011, two of us, John Kania and Mark Kramer, published an article in Stanford Social Innovation Review entitled “Collective Impact.” It quickly became the most downloaded article in the magazine’s history.…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. For those of us who have participated in a half-century of powerful activism by people with disabilities, a familiar slogan summarizes our call to action: Nothing about us without us. As…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. When we strip away the messaging and maneuvering in politics, it’s clear that governments and foundations across the country often seek common goals. Among these are: Strengthening education and vocational…