Collective Impact

Collective Impact Article

By John Kania and Mark Kramer

This is the original FSG article describing collective impact, published in the Winter 2011 Stanford Social Innovation Review. The article highlights how large-scale social change requires broad cross-sector coordination, and explains how substantially greater progress could be made in alleviating many of our most serious and complex social and environmental problems if nonprofits, governments, businesses, and the public were brought together around a common agenda to create collective impact.