Collective Impact 2.0

Some of the initiatives took a top-down approach, bringing leaders of large and influential organizations and institutions together to come up with goals and activities that did not reflect the input or needs of the communities they were seeking to serve. The authors start by redefining collective impact itself: "Collective impact is a network of community members, organizations, and institutions that advance equity by learning together, aligning, and integrating their actions to achieve population and systems-level change." [...]it is also about addressing the needs of other people who are marginalized in society because of their gender, sexual orientation, caste, class, ability, religion, ethnicity, and other attributes.