Beste Collective Impact podcaster (2024)

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Partnering with Companies to Advance Collective Impact 45:20

5d ago45:20

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Companies can be a critical partner in collective impact work. However, working with companies can pose unique challenges, from understanding how to initiate these partnerships to understanding how to best partner to sustain these relationships over time. To learn more about how collaboratives can engage and partner with the private sector to advan…

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How to Foster Effective Partnerships with Government 46:05

26d ago46:05

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Achieving long-term change requires having government—whether local, state, or federal—at the collaborative table as a key partner. However, many collaboratives share that building these partnerships can be challenging, intimidating, or confusing. To better understand how to build and sustain effective relationships with public sector partners, we …

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Reflecting on a Career Committed to Collective Change 52:06

1M ago52:06

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Later this fall, Tamarack Institute’s Co-CEO Liz Weaver will retire, closing a chapter that includes many decades supporting community change, collective impact, and poverty-reduction work across Canada and beyond. Liz is a long-time collaborator and dear friend of the Collective Impact Forum, and it has been a true honor to work alongside her as s…

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Connecting Advocacy and Data to Advance Collective Goals 59:07

2M ago59:07

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Last year, Independent Sector published research on how advocacy by the nonprofit sector has evolved over the last 25 years, and specifically, how it has severely declined, with only 31% of nonprofits reporting advocacy activities over the last 5 years. Compare that to the year 2000, where more than double that—74% of the nonprofit sector--was part…

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Designing to Inspire Community Joy and Connection 53:21

2M ago53:21

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How can inclusive design spur community connections and build stronger partnerships in the process? During the COVID pandemic, the Van Alen Institute and the Urban Design Forum collaborated to launch Neighborhoods Now, a program shepherding resources, both funding and people, toward pandemic recovery and strengthening community partnerships across …

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How Practicing Futurism Can Strengthen Your Collaborative Strategy 57:53

3M ago57:53

57:53

When building a collaborative strategy or working through your implementation plans, it might feel like what you need most is a crystal ball (or a mystically accurate Magic 8 ball) to reveal which activities will work, which won’t, and where you can pivot so you and your partners can keep making progress. Moving ahead while surfing through ambiguit…

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Advancing Equity in Times of Polarization and Division 1:02:28

3M ago1:02:28

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Without proactively removing the structures and systems that have contributed to inequity, place-based collaboratives can not make a meaningful impact on the lives of those most excluded and underestimated in communities. However, given the increasing anti-DEI political and cultural headwinds unfolding in the US and several other countries, communi…

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The Necessary Skills to Navigate Change 47:02

4M ago47:02

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Navigating and managing change is key to a collaborative’s journey, but it’s also one of the most challenging as each partner’s relationship, personal history, and ability to participate in change can vary. Differences in how partners navigate change, if not recognized and explored, can make it difficult for the collaborative to achieve meaningful …

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For Philanthropy to Succeed, All Strategies Must Address Disability 1:10:40

4M ago1:10:40

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Addressing issues related to disability and access are often cordoned off within the social sector and philanthropy. Disability is often deemed as “separate” from issue-specific systems change work, such as education, climate, economic mobility, or health equity. Funders supporting causes like these may think that their focus does not require inclu…

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Why Understanding Local Context Is Critical for Collective Impact 50:50

5M ago50:50

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Understanding a community’s “context” and its readiness for complex change work is a critical factor for launching and advancing collective impact work. Knowing the local context is necessary to support work with and within a community--who is part of the community, what are they experiencing, and what are their challenges, needs, assets, and oppor…

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Why a Policy Agenda is an Important Part of Collective Impact Work 1:04:13

5M ago1:04:13

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A core element of collective impact is changing systems in the pursuit of equity. Pursuing policy change and advocacy efforts are some of the key levers to effectively change how systems operate. But how can cross-sector partners within a collective impact initiative work together to co-create a policy agenda that addresses inequities and closes di…

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Mental Health is Important for Every Collaborative 44:52

6M ago44:52

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May is Mental Health Awareness Month, and we wanted to highlight the importance of recognizing and supporting mental health as a critical and necessary element of a robust and sustainable collective impact effort. We frequently receive questions from a wide variety of collaboratives that are experiencing challenges related to the mental health of t…

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How Belonging, Meaning, Wellbeing, and Purpose (BMWP) Can Empower Youth and Their Communities 43:18

7M ago43:18

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For more than a decade, The Opportunity Youth Forum at the Aspen Institute’s Forum for Community Solutions has been working with a growing network of urban, rural, and tribal communities across the U.S. to build and scale reconnection pathways that achieve better outcomes in education, employment and overall well-being for opportunity youth. (Oppor…

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Pivoting to Build a Stronger Collaborative 59:31

8M ago59:31

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We welcome back members of the Healthy Food Community of Practice to hear what they learned from their multi-year collaboration and how the way they worked together changed over time. Launched in 2020, the Healthy Food Community of Practice is a network of more than 50 organizations working toward a shared goal—that communities of color across the …

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Shifting from Competition to Partnership in Private Sector Collaboration 55:41

9M ago55:41

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The Millers for Nutrition coalition is working with 100+ millers and other partners to achieve an ambitious goal—getting nutritious, fortified food to 1 billion people by 2026. One of the critical questions that Millers for Nutrition has grappled with is how to get private-sector partners, many of whom may be in competition with each other, to find…

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The Ongoing Practice of Building Movements and Solidarity 47:20

9M ago47:20

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What does it mean to build a movement? How is movement building connected to organizing and practicing solidarity with others? And why are these concepts important to make progress on collective work? In this deep dive conversation, we discuss core aspects of movement-building with Adaku Utah, senior manager at Building Movement Project. In this di…

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Exploring the Four Voices of Design to Solve Complex Problems 46:45

10M ago46:45

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Getting to the heart of complex problems can be tricky. How does one untangle the many threads that can be involved? How do you uncover what the real pain points are so that you can address them? In this discussion, we explore the approach of human-centered design and how it can be used to both discover and uplift perspectives to help find communit…

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How Community Leads the Way with Participatory Action Research (PAR) 53:00

10M ago53:00

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Communities can be “researched,” engaged, and surveyed to explore a variety of questions such as what barriers are preventing students from graduating? What are the local economic and health impacts of having only a few grocery stores in the area? It’s important to rigorously explore these types of questions, but there can be danger in taking data …

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What Collective Change Can You Make in 100 Days? 57:03

11M ago57:03

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Addressing homelessness in rural areas has multiple complexities including scarcity of funding, support services, and shelter options, as well as facing a common misconception that rural homelessness does not exist. To better understand how homelessness was affecting their community, partners working in Mercer County, IL came together to participat…

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(Replay) The Role of Narrative Change in Collective Action 59:24

11M ago59:24

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During the winter break, we're replaying some of our favorite past episodes. This replay episode features a dynamic discussion from the 2021 Collective Impact Action Summit, and focuses on the importance of narrative in collective social change efforts. This discussion is led by Melody Barnes of the Aspen Institute Forum for Community Solutions, an…

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(Replay) Leading From ‘Languishing’ to Beloved Community with Rev. Dr. Starsky Wilson 1:06:49

11M ago1:06:49

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During the winter break, we're replaying some of our favorite past episodes. In this episode from 2022, we hear from Rev. Dr. Starsky Wilson, who serves as President and CEO of the Children’s Defense Fund. Dr. Wilson reflects on the challenging times that many of us experienced earlier in the pandemic, and the ways we can reground ourselves and mov…

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Achieving Transformational Results in Housing Through Partnerships 56:59

11M ago56:59

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In a time when many cities across the United States are facing a growing housing crisis, one community has challenged the status quo, working across divides to bring partners together to raise millions of dollars - with a goal of building 10,000 housing units by 2028 in California’s Coachella Valley. What sounds like success now, with 1,600 units a…

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What Makes an Effective Backbone Leader 48:43

12M ago48:43

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To find out what contributes to an effective and sustainable backbone, the EdRedesign Lab at Harvard University interviewed backbone leaders and field-building organizations about their experiences. Earlier this year, they released a report on the most critical skills and competencies required for a backbone leadership team to succeed when doing co…

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(Replay) The Power of Parent Engagement 1:00:05

1y ago1:00:05

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During this holiday week, we're replaying one of our favorite episodes from last year that focused on the power of parent engagement. In this 2022 podcast conversation, we learned about the parent engagement work of Child Safety Forward in Hartford, CT - one of five demonstration sites for the federal demonstration initiative Child Safety Forward. …

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Sustaining Impact for the Long-Term with Child Safety Forward 48:50

1y ago48:50

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How does a collaborative effort start planting the foundation for sustainability early on? In this podcast episode, we learn about the work of Child Safety Forward, a four-year demonstration initiative that engaged five sites across the U.S. in research, planning, and implementation around place-based strategies aimed at reducing child injury and f…

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Culture and Curriculum: The Story of Growing Ute Futures Part 4 12:06

1y ago12:06

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The creation of the Kwiyagat Community Academy is the cornerstone of Growing Ute Futures, but it is not the only impact of the endeavor. Growing Ute Futures is an education masterplan for the entire community as there are so many more families with students –from Kindergarten all through high school—who don’t attend KCA than do. Growing Ute Futures…

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System Catalysts - The Moth: Storytelling Leads to Change 32:48

1y ago32:48

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We’re excited to share with you an episode of another podcast that we think you’ll find very valuable for your social change work. System Catalysts is a show that shares compelling stories from philanthropists and change-makers who are promoting systems change in their communities. They just concluded their first season of stories and we wanted to …

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Culture and Curriculum: The Story of Growing Ute Futures Part 3 12:04

1y ago12:04

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Kwiyagat Community Academy officially opened in 2021 and was finally able to put into practice what had previously just been an abstract plan – a culture-based curriculum grounded in Ute traditions that also delivers a modern academic education to prepare young students for the world. When you hear the world trailblazing—that’s exactly what this ap…

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Centering Equity in Challenging Times 42:53

1y ago42:53

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In this episode, Director of Programs and Partnerships Courtney W. Robertson talks with Jamilica Burke and Melody Freeman from Seeding Success, an organization focused on supporting the wellbeing of children and families in Memphis, Tennessee. In this conversation, they discuss how Seeding Success continues to keep equity at the center of their wor…

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Culture and Curriculum: The Story of Growing Ute Futures Part 2 11:14

1y ago11:14

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In the second part of our four-part series on the Growing Ute Futures initiative, we highlight the bold steps taken by Tribal leaders and their partners to upend generations of educational missed opportunities: the creation of the state’s first-ever tribal-run charter school operation on an Indian Reservation. This is the story of the creation of t…

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Culture and Curriculum: The Story of Growing Ute Futures Part 1 14:08

1y ago14:08

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In 2020, at the direction of the Ute Mountain Ute Tribal Council, educators, and families, Keystone Policy Center began facilitating strategic planning to develop an innovative, culturally-based education system for students and their families on the Ute Mountain Ute Reservation. A central pillar of this plan was integrating Ute arts, language, and…

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Partnering with Local Governments to Advance Collective Goals 54:25

1y ago54:25

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Local governments can play a critical and necessary role in advancing system and policy changes to support communities, but it can be challenging to understand the complexities within local government and how best to work together. In this episode, Forum Director of Programs and Partnerships, Courtney W. Robertson explores how to partner with local…

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How Homelessness is Solvable with a Collective Approach 47:26

1y ago47:26

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Complex issues like homelessness can feel unsolvable or intractable, but that does not have to be the case. Through a commitment to a collective approach and strategies, communities can end homelessness. We take a deep dive into this collective approach required to solve homelessness with Community Solutions, a nonprofit that is dedicated to ending…

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Measuring What Matters With Community-Led Monitoring 55:55

1y ago55:55

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In this episode, we discuss the practice of community-led monitoring, and how this practice can help inform and influence collaborative change efforts. To learn more about community-led monitoring, we talk with the International Treatment Preparedness Coalition (ITPC), a global network that works to achieve universal access to HIV treatment and oth…

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Heeding the Call for Community Partnerships 42:57

1y ago42:57

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In this episode, we discuss the power of community partnerships, and how necessary they are when working to support better outcomes for the whole community. In this discussion, we learn about the community partnership work of JumpStart, a service organization that focuses on supporting folks re-entering society after incarceration. Partnerships are…

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Building Capacity to Support Community Listening 1:08:23

1+ y ago1:08:23

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What can it look like to build capacity to support authentic community listening? In this podcast discussion, we learn about the community listening work supported by Foundation for a Healthy St. Petersburg, based in St. Petersburg, Florida. We hear from a group of partners that worked together to establish community listening to support the South …

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Krista Tippett: Collectively Remaking Our World 1:01:05

1+ y ago1:01:05

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How can you imagine and create a world for everyone? In this new podcast episode, we’re sharing our conversation with Krista Tippett, which was the closing keynote conversation from the 2023 Collective Impact Action. Krista is a journalist, a National Humanities Medalist, a bestselling author, and founder of the On Being Project—a groundbreaking me…

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Imani Barbarin: Creating Accessible Spaces for Belonging 1:14:06

1+ y ago1:14:06

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What does it mean to create truly accessible spaces within your collective work? At the 2023 Collective Impact Action Summit, we explored this question and more in a keynote conversation with Imani Barbarin (Crutches and Spice), who is a disability and inclusion activist, speaker and content creator. In this fireside chat, Imani Barbarin and Miya C…

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Creating Purposeful Spaces of Inclusion and Belonging: A Conversation with Ruchika Tulshyan 51:00

1+ y ago51:00

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What does it mean to create a culture of “belonging” within your collective work? At the 2023 Collective Impact Action Summit, we explored this question and more in a keynote conversation with Ruchika Tulshyan, award-winning inclusion strategist, speaker, and author of the bestselling book, Inclusion on Purpose: An Intersectional Approach to Creati…

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Strengthening Relationships through a Community of Practice 48:51

1+ y ago48:51

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Communities of practice are a valuable way of bringing partners together to connect and learn from each other to strengthen their collective work. It can also be very challenging to navigate the complexities that come with bringing a wide spectrum of partners together. Founded in 2020, the Healthy Food Community of Practice has become a space for c…

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Learning to Share Power Within an Organization 47:30

1+ y ago47:30

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In this episode, we explore the topic of sharing power, which is a key component and strategy when advancing equity in collective impact work. But what can sharing power look like in practice? How are decisions made, and how is power distributed amongst a broad set of colleagues? To explore this topic, we learn about the work of Civic Canopy, a non…

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Centering Parent Voice and Leadership to Support Early Relational Health 53:21

1+ y ago53:21

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In this episode, we learn about how to build and strengthen partnerships with parent leaders so that the wide spectrum of parent voices and needs are kept at the center when supporting early relational health for families. To explore this topic and more, we learn from the national collective Nurture Connection and how their partnership with a diver…

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Building Collective Power to Strengthen Collaboration 46:19

1+ y ago46:19

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In this episode, we talk about building “collective power,” including what it means to build collective power and what factors can contribute to building it. To explore those questions and more, we learn about the Child Care NEXT coalition and how through advocacy work, they have developed a culture of collective power amongst their wide spectrum o…

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Supporting a Sustainable and Resilient Collaboration – Part 2 39:53

1+ y ago39:53

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This episode is the second part of a two-part discussion that explores what practices can help a collaborative be more sustainable and resilient. For part 2, we welcome back our colleagues from the Tamarack Institute, Liz Weaver and Mike Des Jardins, who recently authored a new, free-to-access resource called “10: A Guide for Building a Sustainable…

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Announcing the Recipients of the 2023 Keystone Leadership Award 2:07

1+ y ago2:07

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We're thrilled to announce the recipients of the 2023 Keystone Leadership Award. Keystone Policy Center established the Keystone Leadership Awards in 1994 to recognize extraordinary leadership by individuals and organizations whose work embraces our model, spirit, and mission of creating lasting solutions through strategic collaboration. Keystone h…

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Agricultural Climate Markets: Taming the Wild Wild West 18:18

1+ y ago18:18

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Agricultural soils are a large land-based sink for atmospheric carbon with additional potential to contribute to the sequestration of atmospheric carbon, though questions still remain as to the magnitude and rate of this mitigation opportunity. This potential has spurred a desire to connect growers with carbon markets to realize the environmental a…

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Supporting a Sustainable and Resilient Collaboration – Part 1 44:04

1+ y ago44:04

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This episode is the first of a two-part discussion that explores what practices can help a collaborative be more sustainable and resilient. For this conversation, we welcome our colleagues from the Tamarack Institute, Liz Weaver and Mike Des Jardins, who recently authored a new, free-to-access resource called “10: A Guide for Building a Sustainable…

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Trusting the Messiness in Collective Impact 57:19

1+ y ago57:19

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In this episode, we talk about “trusting the messiness,” and how one can balance navigating partnerships and managing expectations while participating in a long-term complex collaboration. To explore those questions and more, we learn about the collective impact work supported by Sagesse Domestic Violence Prevention Society which is based in Calgar…

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Exploring How to Use the New Racial Equity Toolkit 40:02

1+ y ago40:02

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We have a deep dive discussion about a new resource called the Racial Equity Toolkit that’s free to download and available now in the Collective Impact Forum library. The Racial Equity Toolkit is designed to support backbone staff and partners to operationalize racial equity throughout their collective impact work. We talk with toolkit authors Domi…

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The Browns Canyon National Monument 15:03

1+ y ago15:03

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The Browns Canyon National Monument was designated for federal protection in 2015 and encompasses more than 21,000 acres of scenic and diverse natural resources along the upper Arkansas River in Colorado. It was the culmination of decades of advocacy from local residents to protect the pristine lands. However, federal designation was only the first…

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