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Small Actions, Big Change: Pathways for System Impact

Scaling Out, Scaling Up, Scaling Deep is a new paper by Darcy Riddell and Michele-Lee Moore that dives deeply into an a key question that is top-of-mind for many community change agents and funders: How do we scale up the impact of a promising social innovation?   The impetus for this report, jointly commissioned by the J.W. McConnell Family Foundation and the Tamarack Institute, grew from the realization that highly successful local projects too often fail to demonstrate meaningful impact on the broader social and/or environmental systems they are operating within. 

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Meetings...bloody meetings

There is an old but relatively famous set of videos by John Cleese and others called 'Meetings Bloody Meetings'  in which John is brought to trial for hosting meetings that actually serve very little purpose.  We have all been in those types of meetings!  

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Meetings | Getting to the Product Through the Process

There is an old but relatively famous set of videos by John Cleese and others called 'Meetings Bloody Meetings' in which John is brought to trial for hosting meetings that actually serve very little purpose.  We have all been in those types of meetings!  

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What is YOUR Collective Impact Story?

After the 2014 Champions for Change conference, Liz Weaver interviewed John Kania and Fay Hanleybrown of FSG for The Philanthropist -- a free online journal for practitioners, academics, supporters and others engaged in the non-profit sector in Canada. When asked about whether anything had surprised them, and what they would say has changed the most since the original Collective Impact article was written by John Kania and Mark Kramer in 2011, Fay responded saying...

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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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Applying the Collective Impact Model & Applying it Well

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