Collective Impact Forum

It’s conference season! Say hello to the FSG team at the following events this month: 📆 April 1: 2025 Second Chance Forum | Arlington, Virginia | Attending: Youri Tabet, Associate Director  April 1-3: CFLeads 2025 Forum | Indianapolis, IN | Speaking: John Harper, CEO April 6-9: ABFE. A Philanthropic Partnership for Black Communities Harambee 2025 Conference | Atlanta, GA | Speaking: John Harper, CEO; Attending: Courtney Williams Robertson, Director of Programs and Partnerships, Collective Impact Forum April 22-24: Engage for Good | Palm Springs, CA | Speaking: Lakshmi Iyer, Managing Director; Jennifer Splansky Juster, Executive Director, Collective Impact Forum April 24-25: The Conference Board Corporate Citizenship Summit | Speaking: Bobbi Silten, Chief of People & Culture and Managing Director; Attending: Nikhil Bumb, Managing Director; Dane Smith, Senior Advisor April 29-May 1: Collective Impact Forum Action Summit | Virtual | Speaking: John Harper, CEO; Miya Cain, Associate Director; Many FSGers in attendance 🙂 If you’ll be at any of these convenings, please feel free to stop by and say hello to our team! 👋

➡️ Looking to deepen the impact of your place-based collaborative work? 📅 Upcoming Virtual Event: 2025 Collective Impact Action Summit, featuring keynote conversations with our very own Monique Miles, VP-The Aspen Institute & Managing Director-Aspen Forum For Community Solutions (AFCS) alongside Melody Barnes, AFCS Chair & Former Director of the White House Domestic Policy Council. This April 29-May 1, join #changemakers from around the world at the virtual 2025 Collective Impact Forum Action Summit. Featuring 40+ sessions with tools, case studies, and stories of change from across the field, the Action Summit explores multiple facets of collaboration, including strengthening relationships, engaging communities, and building collective leadership. This year’s Summit will feature also multiple keynote conversations on how to build towards a future where everyone can thrive, while also responding to our current environment. Explore how to hold tensions and bridge across divides, as well as how to build a better shared future by laying the groundwork now. Join the Summit:  https://lnkd.in/emcw_SCN

💡 Have you heard about the virtual Collective Impact Action Summit? ✨ From April 29 - May 1, 2025, the Collective Impact Forum will gather community leaders, funders, and other partners working to advance equity and belonging in their communities. 📣 On April 29, I'll moderate a panel called "Youth Leadership to Transform Mental Health and Wellbeing" featuring three young leaders who are driving transformative work in their communities. They will share their personal stories, lessons learned about collective action, and offer advice on how adults can support and enable youth leadership. ✨ Closing the summit will be keynote speaker Trista Harris in conversation with Melody Barnes from the Aspen Forum For Community Solutions (AFCS). Hope to see you there! Register today at https://lnkd.in/gMdkHv9s #CollectiveImpact2025 #CommunityCollaboration

Join us for our next free virtual office hour on Tuesday, April 8 from 2pm-3pm ET where we will be answering questions and offering guidance on how to navigate change within collaborative work during uncertain or tumultuous times. https://lnkd.in/gMe8Nh5d ***About This Office Hour*** Times of uncertainty or rapid change can both be very challenging and serve as an opportunity to lead together collectively. If you have questions about how to manage change during uncertain times, including how to continue centering equitable outcomes within your work (even if you can't say the word "equity" right now), we're here to help. This free office hour is live-only and will not be recorded to allow for more candid conversations. (Disclaimer: We won’t have answers for every question and situation, but we can share ways of thinking about future planning and lessons we’ve learned from the broader field.)   ***Office Hour Guests*** 🔹 Erika Bernabei, Co-Lead, Equity & Results 🔹 Theodore B. Miller, Co-Lead, Equity & Results 🔹 Courtney Williams Robertson, Director of Programs and Partnerships, Collective Impact Forum 🔹 Junious Williams, Senior Advisor, Collective Impact Forum Register now at: https://lnkd.in/gMe8Nh5d

Joining ABFE's Annual Conference this April 6-9? Be sure to say hello to CIF's Courtney Williams Robertson!

Want to amplify your place-based collaborative work? Join changemakers at the virtual 2025 Collective Impact Action Summit, April 29-May 1. With 40+ sessions featuring tools, case studies, and inspiring stories, the Summit dives into key areas of collaboration, strengthening relationships, engaging communities, and building collective leadership. Leave inspired by practitioners committed to collective action! Find out more at: https://lnkd.in/e8V9iu4S Collective Impact Forum Courtney Williams Robertson Jennifer Splansky Juster FSG

There is power in place. Especially in today's fragmented world. This April 29-May 1, join changemakers from around the world at the virtual 2025 Collective Impact Action Summit. Featuring 40+ sessions with tools, case studies, and stories of change from across the field, the Action Summit explores multiple facets of collaboration, including strengthening relationships, engaging communities, and building collective leadership. At the Summit, attendees have the opportunity to reimagine what is possible when working in collaboration and will leave inspired by the innovation and perseverance of practitioners all over the world who are united towards collective action. Find out more at: https://lnkd.in/gSBKv4A2

📅 Looking to deepen the impact of your place-based #collaborative work? This April 29-May 1, join the 2025 Collective Impact Action Summit, the premiere virtual #conference focused on elevating best practices in #placebased collaboration. Join changemakers from around the world at the #virtual summit hosted by the Collective Impact Forum. Featuring 40+ sessions with tools, case studies, and stories of change from across the field, the Action Summit explores multiple facets of #collaboration, including strengthening relationships, engaging #communities, and building collective #leadership. Learn more and register: https://lnkd.in/ecv5_k7b

We are excited to share a big milestone with you. The Collective Impact Forum podcast has surpassed 100,000 streams! https://lnkd.in/gBzFxg6B Launched in early 2020, the Collective Impact Forum podcast has served as another way for us to provide resources for and uplift the voices of collective impact practitioners. Through a variety of discussions, we’ve been able to explore multiple facets of collaborating to achieve equitable systems change, including building common agendas, sustaining cross-sector partnerships, elevating community voice, and much more. We are very thankful to all of you who have been tuning in, whether it is through listening, reading episode transcripts, or recommending specific episodes to colleagues. We wouldn’t have hit this milestone without you! To celebrate, we are sharing some of our team’s (and some of our fans’) favorite episodes. If you haven’t had a chance to check out the podcast yet, perhaps one of these episodes may provide some support and inspiration. Check them out at: https://lnkd.in/gBzFxg6B And if you are wondering how to listen, you can find them in our resource library, as well as on your preferred podcast platform, including Apple Podcasts and Spotify. Just search for "Collective Impact Forum." Thank you all, and we look forward to sharing our next episodes with you!

Many of our philanthropic partners have been asking: how do we respond to the immediate needs of the current moment while pursuing systems change and staying committed to our long-term mission? Here are three common questions that we have been hearing from funders, along with compiled recommendations across the FSG community to help guide planning in this moment. ➡️ How can philanthropy move forward responsibly in a moment of uncertainty? ➡️ How can philanthropy respond more flexibly and increase support for immediate needs? ➡️ How can philanthropy hold fast to a long-term vision of well-being for all? We write, “Ultimately, responding to immediate needs while holding a long-term vision isn’t just a balancing act. By acting boldly and with agility, funders can not only mitigate disruption but also spark innovation, strengthen networks, and lay the groundwork for a more just and resilient future. This moment calls for courage, creativity, and a steadfast commitment to our values—because the choices we make today will shape the systems and communities of tomorrow.” Read more: https://lnkd.in/ep5eHuFG