Collective Impact Resources

Large scale social change comes from better cross-sector coordination rather than from the isolated intervention of individual organizations. In the following two articles, the authors cite examples which suggest that substantially greater progress can be made in alleviating many of our most serious and complex social problems, if nonprofits, government agencies, businesses and the public come together around a common agenda to create collective impact.

Collective Impact by John Kania & Mark Kramer [published 2011]      

Channeling Change: Making Collective Impact Work by Fay Hanleybrown, John Kania & Mark Kramer [published 2012]