Collective Impact
Collective impact is a network of community members, organizations, and institutions who advance equity by learning together, aligning, and integrating their actions to achieve population and systems-level change.
Common Agenda
All participants have a shared vision for change that includes a common understanding of the problems and a joint approach to solving the problem through agreed-upon actions.
Continuous Communication
Frequent and structured open communication across the many players to build trust, assure mutual objectives, and create common motivation.
Shared Measurement
Agreement on the ways success will be measured and reported, with a short list of common indicators identified and used across all participating organizations for learning and improvement.
Mutually Reinforcing Activities
Engagement of a diverse set of stakeholders, typically across sectors, coordinating a set of differentiated activities through a mutually reinforcing plan of action.
Backbone Support
Ongoing support by independent, funded staff dedicated to the initiative, including guiding the initiative’s vision and strategy, supporting aligned activities, establishing shared measurement practices, building public will, advancing policy, and mobilizing funding. Backbone staff can all sit within a single organization, or they can have different roles housed in multiple organizations.
