Collective Impact

Thanks to Kristen for this one.

"Organizations around the world have begun to see collective impact as a new and more effective process for social change. They have grasped the difference our past articles emphasized between the isolated impact of working for change through a single organization versus a highly structured cross-sector coalition.¹ Yet, even as practitioners work toward the five conditions of collective impact we described earlier, many participants are becoming frustrated in their efforts to move the needle on their chosen issues."...
http://www.ssireview.org/blog/entry/embracing_emergence_how_collective_impact_addresses_complexity