Members of the community-those whose lives are most directly and deeply affected by the problem addressed by the initiative-must be meaningfully engaged in the initiative’s governance, planning, implementation, and evaluation. Include community members in the collaborative.In designing and implementing collective impact with a focus on equity, practitioners must disaggregate data and develop strategies that focus on improving outcomes for affected populations. To that end, collective impact initiatives must be intentional in their design from the very outset to ensure that an equity lens is prominent throughout their governance, planning, implementation, and evaluation. For collective impact initiatives to achieve sustainable improvements in communities, it is critical that these initiatives address the systemic structures and practices that create barriers to equitable outcomes for all populations, particularly along the lines of race and class. Design and implement the initiative with a priority placed on equity.As we continue to apply the conditions and principles of collective impact, we fully expect that, over time, our shared understanding of what constitutes good practice will evolve further. We also hope these principles can help guide those who aspire toward collective impact, but may not yet be implementing the approach fully, to identify possible changes that might increase their odds of success. We hope that these principles help funders, practitioners, and policymakers consider what it takes to apply the collective impact approach, and that they will bolster existing efforts to overcome challenges and roadblocks in their work. While many of these principles are not unique to collective impact, we have seen that the combination of the 5 conditions and these practices contributes to meaningful population-level change. Informed by lessons shared among those who are implementing the approach in the field, this document outlines additional principles of practice that we believe can guide practitioners about how to successfully put collective impact into action. Successful collective impact practitioners also observe, however, that while the 5 conditions Kania and Kramer initially identified are necessary, they are not sufficient to achieve impact at the population level. (For an explanation of the conditions, see below.) Many practitioners tell us that the framework developed in the original article has helped to provide the field with a shared definition and useful language to describe core elements of a rigorous and disciplined, yet flexible and organic, approach to addressing complex problems at scale. Accomplished practitioners of collective impact continue to affirm the critical importance of achieving population-level change in the 5 conditions of collective impact that John Kania and Mark Kramer originally identified in the Stanford Social Innovation Review in winter 2011. The field’s understanding of what it takes to put the collective impact approach into practice continues to evolve through the contributions of many who are undertaking the deep work of collaborative social change, and their successes build on decades of work around effective cross-sector collaboration. We have been inspired watching the field of collective impact progress over the past 5 years, as thousands of practitioners, funders, and policymakers around the world employ the approach to help solve complex social problems at a large scale. This content originally appeared on the Collective Impact Forum’s website.
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