Expanding our understanding of backbone organizations in collective impact initiatives

DuBow, Wendy; Hug, Sarah; Serafini, Brian; Litzler, Elizabeth

doi:10.1080/15575330.2018.1458744

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“…More recently, Senge et al (2015), in a widely cited article, argue that three core capabilities that 'system leaders' need in order to foster collective leadership are: the ability to see the larger system, fostering reflection and generative conversations, and the ability to shift the collective focus from reactive problem solving to cocreating the future. In addition, Dubow et al (2018) implicitly point to leadership tasks with their finding that backbone organizations help foster change when they: promote regular convening, stress accountability, promote public visibility of efforts, have topleader involvement, and engage in coaching.…”

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Leading Social Transformations: Creating Public Value and Advancing the Common Good

Bryson

Barberg²,

Crosby

et al. 2021

Journal of Change Management

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This essay explores what is involved in leading a social transformation to create public value and advance the common good. The contrast here is with strategic leadership of organizations, collaborations, and social movements. Leading a social transformation is much bigger. The required changes are multi-issue, multi-level, multi-organizational, and cross-sectoral, and can cross national frontiers. Deep and broad changes, often involving radical innovations, are needed. Deep and abiding changes in relationshipsand power relationshipsamong people and groups are required. Leadership of organizations, collaborations, and social movements is still important for transformation, but not enough. Instead, advancing social transformation requires leadership that is deeply relational, visionary, political, adaptive, and comfortable with complexity. MAD statementIf one views leadership as a response to challenges, leading social transformation is a crucial element needed to address the most significant challengesthe 'grand challenges'the world faces. For example, transformations (and their opposition) are underway in terms of how much of the world approaches climate change and inequality. The leadership involved in each case has been multi-issue, multi-level, multi-organizational, and cross-sectoral, as well as multigenerational, multi-ethic, and multi-gendered. The essay explores what seems to be involved in successful societal transformationin conjunction with strategic leadership of organizations and leading collaborations, coalition building, and advocacy.

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Section: Leading Strategy Management-at-scalementioning

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Leading Social Transformations: Creating Public Value and Advancing the Common Good

Bryson

Barberg²,

Crosby

et al. 2021

Journal of Change Management

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“…Further, partner representatives agreed that recognition of their participation by their organization would help address some of the challenges they encounter during the collaboration. These areas of strengths and improvements as well as the evolution of principles used in, and building off of, collective impact (DuBow et al 2018, Ennis and Tofa 2020) will be considered as EcologyPlus continues designing and providing opportunities to foster the inclusion of students from BIPOC communities in a range of ecology‐related careers.…”

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Harnessing Data for Inclusive Ecology Education: Building Programs to Move the Discipline Toward Systemic Change

Cheng

Mourad

Goldberg

et al. 2021

Bulletin Ecologic Soc America

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“…Similarly, DuBow and colleagues consider CI from a national movement-building paradigm, rewriting the five conditions of CI. The authors indicate this is necessary given CI's overemphasis on existing leadership structures, which target only incremental improvements (DuBow, Hug, Serafini, & Litzler, 2018). Indeed, scholarship is coalescing around the need for CI to take aim at genuine transformational change (Weaver, 2016).…”

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Who gets included in Collective Impact: A mixed methods study of 10 CI initiatives

Abresch

Grimm

Lyons

et al. 2021

Community Development

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This mixed methods study sought to build knowledge of inclusivity practices among 10 CI initiatives. Analyses across two strands of research revealed two distinct definitions of inclusivity: broad inclusivity, which seeks the participation of everyone; and, representative inclusivity, which seeks individuals affected by the problems being addressed. While several of the initiatives had improved inclusivity practices since adopting CI, only a few were found to be broadly inclusive and most acknowledged operating in intentionally exclusive ways at times. All of the initiatives valued representative inclusivity, but members reported struggling to achieve even minimal levels. Proponents of CI should continue to develop guides for practitioners to help ensure both forms of inclusivity.

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Expanding our understanding of backbone organizations in collective impact initiatives

Abstract: This article explores the question of what mechanisms a backbone organization uses in a collective impact initiative to help diverse participants make organizational and social change.

Cited by 23 publications

References 10 publications

Leading Social Transformations: Creating Public Value and Advancing the Common Good

Leading Social Transformations: Creating Public Value and Advancing the Common Good

Harnessing Data for Inclusive Ecology Education: Building Programs to Move the Discipline Toward Systemic Change

Who gets included in Collective Impact: A mixed methods study of 10 CI initiatives

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