Latest Collective impact Podcast Episodes
Why Understanding Local Context Is Critical for Collective Impact
Collective Impact Forum - July 02, 2024 23:45 - 50 minutesUnderstanding a community’s “context” and its readiness for complex change work is a critical factor for launching and advancing collective impact work. Knowing the local context is necessary to support work with and within a community--who is part of the community, what are they experiencing, ...
Why a Policy Agenda is an Important Part of Collective Impact Work
Collective Impact Forum - June 20, 2024 19:19 - 1 hourA core element of collective impact is changing systems in the pursuit of equity. Pursuing policy change and advocacy efforts are some of the key levers to effectively change how systems operate. But how can cross-sector partners within a collective impact initiative work together to co-create a...
Mental Health is Important for Every Collaborative
Collective Impact Forum - May 16, 2024 21:26 - 44 minutesMay is Mental Health Awareness Month, and we wanted to highlight the importance of recognizing and supporting mental health as a critical and necessary element of a robust and sustainable collective impact effort. We frequently receive questions from a wide variety of collaboratives that are ex...
How Belonging, Meaning, Wellbeing, and Purpose (BMWP) Can Empower Youth and Their Communities
Collective Impact Forum - May 09, 2024 18:28 - 43 minutesFor more than a decade, The Opportunity Youth Forum at the Aspen Institute’s Forum for Community Solutions has been working with a growing network of urban, rural, and tribal communities across the U.S. to build and scale reconnection pathways that achieve better outcomes in education, employmen...
Pivoting to Build a Stronger Collaborative
Collective Impact Forum - March 20, 2024 21:02 - 59 minutesWe welcome back members of the Healthy Food Community of Practice to hear what they learned from their multi-year collaboration and how the way they worked together changed over time. Launched in 2020, the Healthy Food Community of Practice is a network of more than 50 organizations working tow...
Shifting from Competition to Partnership in Private Sector Collaboration
Collective Impact Forum - March 06, 2024 22:07 - 55 minutesThe Millers for Nutrition coalition is working with 100+ millers and other partners to achieve an ambitious goal—getting nutritious, fortified food to 1 billion people by 2026. One of the critical questions that Millers for Nutrition has grappled with is how to get private-sector partners, many...
The Ongoing Practice of Building Movements and Solidarity
Collective Impact Forum - February 22, 2024 22:49 - 47 minutesWhat does it mean to build a movement? How is movement building connected to organizing and practicing solidarity with others? And why are these concepts important to make progress on collective work? In this deep dive conversation, we discuss core aspects of movement-building with Adaku Utah, ...
Exploring the Four Voices of Design to Solve Complex Problems
Collective Impact Forum - February 06, 2024 23:06 - 46 minutesGetting to the heart of complex problems can be tricky. How does one untangle the many threads that can be involved? How do you uncover what the real pain points are so that you can address them? In this discussion, we explore the approach of human-centered design and how it can be used to both...
How Community Leads the Way with Participatory Action Research (PAR)
Collective Impact Forum - January 22, 2024 23:58 - 53 minutesCommunities can be “researched,” engaged, and surveyed to explore a variety of questions such as what barriers are preventing students from graduating? What are the local economic and health impacts of having only a few grocery stores in the area? It’s important to rigorously explore these types...
What Collective Change Can You Make in 100 Days?
Collective Impact Forum - January 08, 2024 22:30 - 57 minutesAddressing homelessness in rural areas has multiple complexities including scarcity of funding, support services, and shelter options, as well as facing a common misconception that rural homelessness does not exist. To better understand how homelessness was affecting their community, partners ...
(Replay) The Role of Narrative Change in Collective Action
Collective Impact Forum - January 01, 2024 23:00 - 59 minutesDuring the winter break, we're replaying some of our favorite past episodes. This replay episode features a dynamic discussion from the 2021 Collective Impact Action Summit, and focuses on the importance of narrative in collective social change efforts. This discussion is led by Melody Barnes o...
(Replay) Leading From ‘Languishing’ to Beloved Community with Rev. Dr. Starsky Wilson
Collective Impact Forum - December 26, 2023 01:48 - 1 hourDuring the winter break, we're replaying some of our favorite past episodes. In this episode from 2022, we hear from Rev. Dr. Starsky Wilson, who serves as President and CEO of the Children’s Defense Fund. Dr. Wilson reflects on the challenging times that many of us experienced earlier in the p...
Achieving Transformational Results in Housing Through Partnerships
Collective Impact Forum - December 18, 2023 22:54 - 56 minutesIn a time when many cities across the United States are facing a growing housing crisis, one community has challenged the status quo, working across divides to bring partners together to raise millions of dollars - with a goal of building 10,000 housing units by 2028 in California’s Coachella Va...
What Makes an Effective Backbone Leader
Collective Impact Forum - December 06, 2023 21:40 - 48 minutesTo find out what contributes to an effective and sustainable backbone, the EdRedesign Lab at Harvard University interviewed backbone leaders and field-building organizations about their experiences. Earlier this year, they released a report on the most critical skills and competencies required f...
(Replay) The Power of Parent Engagement
Collective Impact Forum - November 21, 2023 22:44 - 1 hourDuring this holiday week, we're replaying one of our favorite episodes from last year that focused on the power of parent engagement. In this 2022 podcast conversation, we learned about the parent engagement work of Child Safety Forward in Hartford, CT - one of five demonstration sites for the ...
Sustaining Impact for the Long-Term with Child Safety Forward
Collective Impact Forum - November 16, 2023 19:22 - 48 minutesHow does a collaborative effort start planting the foundation for sustainability early on? In this podcast episode, we learn about the work of Child Safety Forward, a four-year demonstration initiative that engaged five sites across the U.S. in research, planning, and implementation around pla...
System Catalysts - The Moth: Storytelling Leads to Change
Collective Impact Forum - November 06, 2023 20:39 - 32 minutesWe’re excited to share with you an episode of another podcast that we think you’ll find very valuable for your social change work. System Catalysts is a show that shares compelling stories from philanthropists and change-makers who are promoting systems change in their communities. They just con...
Centering Equity in Challenging Times
Collective Impact Forum - October 23, 2023 21:04 - 42 minutesIn this episode, Director of Programs and Partnerships Courtney W. Robertson talks with Jamilica Burke and Melody Freeman from Seeding Success, an organization focused on supporting the wellbeing of children and families in Memphis, Tennessee. In this conversation, they discuss how Seeding Succ...
Partnering with Local Governments to Advance Collective Goals
Collective Impact Forum - September 25, 2023 22:32 - 54 minutesLocal governments can play a critical and necessary role in advancing system and policy changes to support communities, but it can be challenging to understand the complexities within local government and how best to work together. In this episode, Forum Director of Programs and Partnerships, ...
How Homelessness is Solvable with a Collective Approach
Collective Impact Forum - September 18, 2023 22:42 - 47 minutesComplex issues like homelessness can feel unsolvable or intractable, but that does not have to be the case. Through a commitment to a collective approach and strategies, communities can end homelessness. We take a deep dive into this collective approach required to solve homelessness with Commu...
Measuring What Matters With Community-Led Monitoring
Collective Impact Forum - September 11, 2023 22:20 - 55 minutesIn this episode, we discuss the practice of community-led monitoring, and how this practice can help inform and influence collaborative change efforts. To learn more about community-led monitoring, we talk with the International Treatment Preparedness Coalition (ITPC), a global network that wor...
Heeding the Call for Community Partnerships
Collective Impact Forum - August 28, 2023 21:22 - 42 minutesIn this episode, we discuss the power of community partnerships, and how necessary they are when working to support better outcomes for the whole community. In this discussion, we learn about the community partnership work of JumpStart, a service organization that focuses on supporting folks r...
Building Capacity to Support Community Listening
Collective Impact Forum - August 21, 2023 21:48 - 1 hourWhat can it look like to build capacity to support authentic community listening? In this podcast discussion, we learn about the community listening work supported by Foundation for a Healthy St. Petersburg, based in St. Petersburg, Florida. We hear from a group of partners that worked together...
Krista Tippett: Collectively Remaking Our World
Collective Impact Forum - August 14, 2023 20:15 - 1 hourHow can you imagine and create a world for everyone? In this new podcast episode, we’re sharing our conversation with Krista Tippett, which was the closing keynote conversation from the 2023 Collective Impact Action. Krista is a journalist, a National Humanities Medalist, a bestselling author, ...
Imani Barbarin: Creating Accessible Spaces for Belonging
Collective Impact Forum - July 24, 2023 21:38 - 1 hourWhat does it mean to create truly accessible spaces within your collective work? At the 2023 Collective Impact Action Summit, we explored this question and more in a keynote conversation with Imani Barbarin (Crutches and Spice), who is a disability and inclusion activist, speaker and content c...
Creating Purposeful Spaces of Inclusion and Belonging: A Conversation with Ruchika Tulshyan
Collective Impact Forum - July 10, 2023 20:36 - 51 minutesWhat does it mean to create a culture of “belonging” within your collective work? At the 2023 Collective Impact Action Summit, we explored this question and more in a keynote conversation with Ruchika Tulshyan, award-winning inclusion strategist, speaker, and author of the bestselling book, In...
Strengthening Relationships through a Community of Practice
Collective Impact Forum - June 22, 2023 22:01 - 48 minutesCommunities of practice are a valuable way of bringing partners together to connect and learn from each other to strengthen their collective work. It can also be very challenging to navigate the complexities that come with bringing a wide spectrum of partners together. Founded in 2020, the Heal...
Learning to Share Power Within an Organization
Collective Impact Forum - June 08, 2023 18:52 - 47 minutesIn this episode, we explore the topic of sharing power, which is a key component and strategy when advancing equity in collective impact work. But what can sharing power look like in practice? How are decisions made, and how is power distributed amongst a broad set of colleagues? To explore th...
Centering Parent Voice and Leadership to Support Early Relational Health
Collective Impact Forum - May 25, 2023 23:26 - 53 minutesIn this episode, we learn about how to build and strengthen partnerships with parent leaders so that the wide spectrum of parent voices and needs are kept at the center when supporting early relational health for families. To explore this topic and more, we learn from the national collective N...
Building Collective Power to Strengthen Collaboration
Collective Impact Forum - May 11, 2023 21:21 - 46 minutesIn this episode, we talk about building “collective power,” including what it means to build collective power and what factors can contribute to building it. To explore those questions and more, we learn about the Child Care NEXT coalition and how through advocacy work, they have developed a c...
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