1. Collective Impact: Creating Large Scale Change Transforming Philanthropy Forum Cartagena, Colombia May, 2011

2. © 2010 FSG 2 FSG.ORG Students Faith Civic Community Media Parents/ Family Non-Profit Philanthropy Corporate Early Childhood K-12 Post Secondary Materials developed by Strive, a subsidiary of KnowledgeWorks. For more information, see www.strivetogether.org

3. © 2010 FSG 3 FSG.ORG Collective Impact Isolated Impact Collective Impact When individual organizations demonstrate a successful intervention and then encourage others to replicate When organizations have the vision, leadership and resources to engage the relevant stakeholders in a structured process to address a specific social problem

4. © 2010 FSG 4 FSG.ORG There Are Five Conditions for Collective Success Collective Impact Common Agenda Shared measurement Mutually reinforcing activities Continuous communication Backbone organizations

5. © 2010 FSG 5 FSG.ORG The Collective Impact Approach to Solving Complex Social Issues Is Occurring Across Many Sectors Collective Impact Education Environment Healthcare Economic Development

6. © 2010 FSG 6 FSG.ORG Mindset Shifts Adaptive vs. Technical Solutions Silver Buckshot vs. Silver Bullets Credibility vs. Credit Collective Impact

7. © 2010 FSG 7 FSG.ORG Why Now? Why Colombia? An era of scarce resources Sector lines are blurring The web is making information sharing free and ubiquitous Recognition of tremendous inequalities Collective Impact

8. © 2010 FSG 8 FSG.ORG What Does it Mean for Funders? Be bold Be patient Be willing to fund the un-sexy Be leaders Collective Impact

9. © 2010 FSG 9 FSG.ORG Collective Impact ‘There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order to things.’ — Niccolo Machiavelli