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Foundation launches new initiative to support and encourage collaborative approaches to community problem solving.

Regional funder in the South adopts network-focused approach to grantmaking.

Who is Working Well Together? The Patterson Foundation

Is your organization currently engaged in or thinking about becoming involved in collective impact? For those who are currently immersed in this work, what are you doing? How can GEO be a resource and/or a resource connector as you engage in this work?

The urgency and complexity of the problems nonprofits and grantmakers are trying to solve demands that we come together to exchange knowledge and insights from our work and combine resources. Convenings are powerful vehicles for amassing shared knowledge, building trusting relationships and laying the groundwork for collective action. And, grantmakers are well positioned to provide the types of support to catalyze, develop and sustain these efforts.

Is your organization currently engaged in or thinking about becoming involved in collective impact? For those who are currently immersed in this work, what are you doing? How can GEO be a resource and/or a resource connector as you engage in this work?

Grantmakers of all kinds care about tangible progress on tough problems, but we also seek harder-to-measure results. Networks for social change can help on both of these fronts, building new capacity for making progress on complex problems and achieving significant measurable results. Tapping into network connections is becoming the norm for social change makers, whether we’re mapping influential relationships for an advocacy campaign, coordinating a protest to fight climate change or spreading an approach to community engagement

Grantmaker focused on education for Jewish young people embraces multiyear grants, funder collaboration as priorities.

Aiming to build a national movement, funder focused on oral health supports learning communities of grantees.

Who Is Working Well Together?