by Eastside Pathways | Jan 23, 2017 | Impact, News 2017
At Eastside Pathways, as in communities nationally, our understanding of collective impact continues to evolve. One key change is the way that an explicit focus on equity has moved to the forefront. In a widely-read update to their original 2011 white paper on...
by Eastside Pathways | Jun 10, 2016 | News 2016
Essay written by Karen Pittman and republished with permission from The Forum for Youth Investment For more than a decade, the Forum for Youth investment has helped communities map, convene and align coalitions and initiatives focused on the interlocking issues...
by Sujata Agrawal | Mar 31, 2016 | News 2016
Republished with permission from Allen Grossman and Ann Lombard The business community can be a powerful partner in collective impact. The overwhelming majority of collective impact initiative leaders we surveyed for our new report said that business...
by Sujata Agrawal | Feb 26, 2016 | News 2016
I had the great fortune of attending the first learning community of the Working Cities Challenge (WCC), an initiative led by the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston to advance collaborative leadership and support ambitious work to improve the lives of low-income people in...
by Eastside Pathways | Jul 25, 2014 | News 2014
A Reflection from Kelly Jones Last month, I had the privilege of connecting with staff from four other Pacific Northwest collective impact efforts at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation’s 2014 Collective Impact Grantee Meeting. This day-long meeting covered a range...