Collective Impact Tools

Each chapter's primary tools are fundamental resources designed to help grow a more complete understanding of each stage of Collective Impact. Start your journey in this chapter by reviewing each of the primary tools. Once this is complete, you can move on to the secondary and diving deeper resources to help gain a better grasp of specific elements that have been introduced.

Primary

• TOOL | Collective Impact Year One Action Plan
  This tool will assist you in consolidating and assessing the current status of your Collective Impact initiative
• TOOL |Collective Impact Self-Assessment and Planning Tool
  Help your collaborative leadership group to pause and take stock of where you are and the progress you have made in advancing your Initiative
  
• TOOL | Eco-Cycle Mapping
  It is valuable for leaders to periodically come together and map their progress using the ecocycle – with a careful eye on the transitional traps
  

Secondary

• TOOL | Compendium of CI Resources part 4: Building Resilient and Sustainable CI Initiatives
  This collection of resources focuses solely on building resilient and sustainable Collective Impact initiatives and in doing so, uncovers a variety of articles, tools, webinars and videos
  
• WEBINAR | Collective Impact 3.0
  Liz Weaver and Mark Cabaj share their insights about the evolution of collective impact and what it will take to get to transformative community change

Diving Deeper

• ARTICLE | Evaluating Collective Impact: Five Simple Rules
  This article describes five simple rules that have emerged out of 50 years of trial and error that can assist participants, funders, and evaluators of Collective Impact initiatives to track their progress and make sense of their efforts
• WEBINAR | The Opportunity Youth Network | A Collective Impact Initiative
  Leaders discuss the lessons learned through the Opportunity Youth initiative
• WEBINAR | Promise Neighbourhoods
  Michael McAfee talks about how the Promise Neighbourhoods is using collective impact in their work, by facilitating collaboration within communities as people work to attain concrete results
• WEBINAR | Youth Readiness: Mobilizing for Impact
  Karen Pittman and Alex Bezzina engage in a conversation about the Forum for Youth Investment and Collective Impact as it pertains to helping youth thrive
• WEBINAR | Collective Impact and the United Way
  Stacey Stewart joins Liz Weaver to discuss the United Way's experience with Collective Impact and their community change campaigns that will help us build the foundations for a good quality of life