Weather the Storm of Collective Impact
"Community change efforts are akin to a snowstorm. There are many individual flakes of activity but they are difficult to distinguish once the snowstorm has finished." - Liz Weaver
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"Community change efforts are akin to a snowstorm. There are many individual flakes of activity but they are difficult to distinguish once the snowstorm has finished." - Liz Weaver
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"Communities and organizations around the world are adopting a different mindset to achieve large-scale systemic change through collective impact... As cross-sector groups engage more deeply in this practice, funders and practitioners alike find ourselves probing for answers to the question: How do you do this work well?" - Shiloh Turner, Kathy Merchant, John Kania & Ellen Martin (Stanford Social Innovation Review)
"Childhood obesity is a complex large-scale social problem caused by a multitude of interdependent factors. Children and families do not live and function in isolation but rather in the context of their family environments, neighbourhoods and communities." - Creating a collective impact on childhood obesity: Lessons from the SCOPE initiative
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