May 2013

Servant Leadership: A Core Competency to Achieve Collective Impact

May 28, 2025

I recently had the privilege of serving on a panel at the annual United Way Worldwide Staff Leadership Conference. Melody Barnes of Aspen Forum for Community Solutions - among a hundred other key roles she plays so wonderfully to support our democracy – facilitated beautifully. She helped us dig into a host of questions about [...]

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The Difference between Backbones and Conveners in Collective Impact

May 17, 2025

We have the honor of working with sites all over the country looking embrace the concept of collective impact and establish cradle to career civic infrastructure to achieve better outcomes for children. Unfortunately, the energy around this work has led to a new political challenge in many communities: jockeying among partners to become the “backbone”[1]. [...]

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