Collective Impact
Use this lens when it best clarifies the decision, behaviour or system condition you are trying to understand.
Collective Impact vs Community Organising
How partnership coordination differs from organised community power.
Community Organising
Use this lens when it better fits the level of action, evidence or participation challenge in front of you.
Decision guide
Main questionCollective Impact asks how organisations align around a common agenda. Community organising asks how people build power to act on shared issues.
Best useUse Collective Impact for cross-sector coordination. Use organising when affected communities need voice, leadership and leverage.
Combine themA place-based strategy may need both: organised community power and institutional alignment.
CautionPartnerships without community power can become top-down; organising without strategy can struggle to shift systems.