ABSTRACT
The Collective Impact framework for community change efforts first appeared in an article by the same name by John Kania and Mark Kramer in the Stanford Social Innovation Review in Winter 2011. The framework contained three pre-conditions: influential champions; urgency of issue; and adequate resources. It also contained five conditions: common agenda; shared measurement; mutually reinforcing activities; continuous communications; and backbone infrastructure. The initial article made the case that if community change practitioners employed this framework, they could drive population level change at scale. In the seven years since the release of the Collective Impact framework, much has been written about the effectiveness and impact of the framework. This chapter reviews current research and practices and proposes a series of upgrades to each condition in the CI framework. These upgrades, if employed effectively, will enable community change practitioners to create a moment for change rather than simply building structures that manage the complex issue.
