Collaboration

Resources on this page cover everything from working together on a one time project to mobilizing a community to address an issue.

Collaboration

• Collaboratives Toolbox - guide for communities to create collaboration, including tools and models by the White House Council for Community Solutions
• Gather: The Art and Science of Effective Convening, a guidebook for convening planners created by Monitor Institute and Rockefeller Foundation, July 2013
• How to Collaborate definitions and tools by Collaborative Justice
• Creating and Maintaining Partnerships - outline and examples by Community Tool Box
• Developing Effective Coalitions: An Eight Step Guide step-by-step guide to coalition building by Prevention Institute
• Merging Wisely article by David LaPiana in Stanford Social Innovation Review, Spring 2010
• Changing the Game to Change the World, article by David La Piana in Huffington Post, June 14, 2012

Collective Impact

• Readiness Assessment, tool by the Collective Impact Forum designed for a group considering the collective impact approach
• The Equity Imperative in Collective Impact, article by John Kania and Mark Kramer, Stanford Social Innovation Review, October 2015
• Collective Impact: The Missing Link, blog article by Neera Nunday and Ann Paisley Chandler, Stanford Social Innovation Review, June 16, 2015
• Collective Insights on Collective Impact, articles by a a variety of authors, Stanford Social Innovation Review, Fall 2014
• Essential Mindset Shifts for Collective Impact, article by John Kania, Fay Hanleybrown & Jennifer Splansky Juster, Stanford Social Innovation Review, Fall 2014
• The Promise and Peril of Collective Impact, article by Liz Weaver, The Philanthropist, Volume 26, 1, 2014
• Rereading "Collective Impact": Three Lessons blog article by Chris Thompson, Stanford Social Innovation Review, February 2014
• Shaping Global Partnerships for a Post-2105 World article by Sonja Patscheke, Angela Barmettler, Laura Herman, Scott Overdyke & Mark Pfitzer, Stanford Social Innovation Review, Februar 2014
• Embracing Emergence: How Collective Impact Addresses Complexity article by John Kania & Mark Kramer, Stanford Social Innovation Review, January 2013
• Channeling Change: Making Collective Impact Work article by Fay Hanleybrow, John Kania & Mark Kramer, Stanford Social Innovation Review, January 2012
• Collective Impact article by John Kania & Mark Kramer in Stanford Social Innovation Review, Winter 2011
• Needle-Moving Community Collaboratives article by Michele Jolin, Paul Schmitz, and Willa Seldon, The Bridgespan Group
• The Real Challenge for Collective Impact article by Paul Schmitz

Websites

• Collective Impact Forum - resources and communities of practice by FSG and Aspen Institute Forum for Community Solutions
• Nonprofit Collaboration Resources - Nonprofit Collaboration Database and resources by Foundation Center
• White House Council for Community Solutions - report identifying effective community solutions; collaboratives toolbox for communities; toolkit for employers to connect youth and business
• Collective Impact Knowledge Exchange - blog by FSG
• Partner, social network analysis tool ($)