In early 2013, funders, environmental educators, and researchers crowded elbow-to-elbow around a 20-year-old redwood forest shelf fungus. On the 23rd-floor conference room of a San Francisco ...

How can funders effectively foster grantee and community ownership in collective impact—the commitment of cross-sector actors to a common agenda for solving a specific social problem at scale—when ...

I have written of my desire to see more focus by the food and agriculture technology innovation ecosystem on solving today’s problems. I would like to offer the concept of collective impact as an ...

“To be truly impactful, any such coalition should be built to put the people and communities most affected in decision-making roles and also focus on policy and systems change.” Collective impact is a ...

As traditional philanthropic models falter in addressing the complexity of global crises, the emergence of trust networks presents a groundbreaking solution for collective impact through ...

In the nonprofit sector, strategic alliances are crucial for amplifying impact, sharing resources and enhancing service delivery. In this article, I'll explore three types of strategic ...

The COVID-19 pandemic has had a profound impact on mental health, particularly in rural America. These mental health struggles have taken on many forms. Throughout the pandemic, most of us have been ...

On the fourth floor of the Rail Yard building in downtown Green Bay, you’ll find the Office for Collective Impact. This is the home to four collective impact nonprofits — Achieve Brown County, ...

IC appoints Dr. Claire Wang as Exexcutive Director , ushering in a new era of innovation, equity, and data-driven transformation for the social impact sector. NEW ...

When it comes to philanthropy, it’s easy to get caught up in the multimillion-dollar donations that often make headlines. While these gifts are undeniably transformative, every gift — large and small ...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — The pandemic may be over, but kids across the country are still dealing with the bad study habits they developed during the COVID-19 pandemic. Members of the Black Impact ...