John Kania is passionate about getting people, organizations, and communities to change for the better. He co-authored two recent watershed papers: Collective Impact and Making Collective Impact Work. As a Board member and Managing Director at FSG for the past nine years, John focuses on inspiring FSG's Leadership Team, consultants, and operations staff to achieve excellence in their work. John was a keynote speaker at Tamarack's 2011 Communities Collaborating Institute.
Mark Kramer is co-founder and Managing Director of FSG, a nonprofit consulting firm established in 2000 and specializing in strategy, evaluation, and research. As the primary overseer of FSG‘s consulting practice, he helps drive the vision and growth of the firm and leads engagements across all of FSG’s impact areas, with a particular focus on shared value.
Fay Hanleybrown established FSG’s west coast presence when she opened the San Francisco office in 2002. She currently leads FSG’s Seattle office and Collective Impact approach area. She has advised a variety of clients, including private foundations, community foundations, private corporations, and nonprofits across a range of critical issues including education, global development, community philanthropy, and corporate social responsibility.
Join Tamarack's Sylvia Cheuy, Director of Collective Impact, in this online course designed to establish a foundational understanding of the Collective Impact Framework. Learners will have the opportunity to join Sylvia for monthly small group coaching to get more personalized feedback and insight.
Take our new self-directed online course and build your Community Engagement toolkit at your own pace.
Hosted by Lisa Attygalle, Director of Community Engagement, the course will guide you through pre-recorded video lessons, case studies, and practical tools and resources.
The Designing for What's Next webinar and workshop series is aimed at practitioners looking to understand how to best design their organizations, their strategies, and shape their communities for what is to come as we encounter the changes that emerge from the COVID-19 pandemic.
Join Vibrant Communities' Natasha Pei, Manager of Cities, in this new five-module course. Topics include Ending Working Poverty, Governments and Communities Ending Poverty, and Big Ideas for Ending Poverty.
Through this course, you'll be guided through reflective questions and exercises that will help you make the most of the course materials and content. This course is designed to help you learn at your own pace as you advocate for and advance high-impact ending poverty pathways in your community.
Join Heather Keam for our first ABCD 101 virtual workshop designed to shift your thinking so that your community is able to build their own table, and your role becomes the legs which support the table and the community-centred activities that come from it.
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