The Collective Impact Forum provides resources, hosts learning events, facilitates learning communities, and offers coaching that can help advance collective impact work. Drawing on our field-wide consulting, knowledge, and experience with efforts across the globe, the Collective Impact Forum offers tailored coaching services to help you navigate the specific challenges that you face. Popular coaching topics include recruiting and onboarding partners, scoping a common agenda, building capacity of the backbone team, and sustaining momentum over time. We tailor our collective impact coaching services to meet the needs of many types of clients, such as advising an individual collective impact backbone leader or funder in one community, facilitating a learning cohort of backbone leaders in the same region, or supporting a national learning cohort of backbone leaders working on a similar social issue.

Contact: Jennifer Juster, jennifer.juster@collectiveimpactforum.org

Create Good partners with collective impact initiatives and mission-driven organizations to advance shared liberation. We do this work as partners to embed clarity and coherence into strategy, narrative change and organizational learning. We support executive directors, program teams, and backbone leaders navigating complex systems, team transitions, or renewed vision. From equitable strategic planning to culturally responsive evaluation, we help teams move forward with purpose—grounded in values and driven by outcomes. Whether you’re launching, evolving, or recalibrating your efforts, Create Good brings the structure and thought partnership needed to sustain momentum while keeping transformation at the core. Let’s build what’s next together.

Contact: Naaima Khan, naaima@creategood.biz

Details by CP, LLC, works closely with you to identify the needs of your event and will create a customized plan of services to address and manage your event needs, down to every detail. This customized approach to each client production allows us to ensure that all your event goals are met and exceeded.

We specialize in destination planning allowing you to plan an event in any city regardless of your home location. No meeting is too large, and no event detail is too small for us to manage.

Let Details by CP, LLC, take care of your event details.

Contact: Christopher Pulido, christopher@detialsbycp.com

FSG is a mission-driven, nonprofit (501c3) firm of over 100 staff that supports leaders focused on driving large-scale, lasting social change. Founded in 2000, we have successfully guided hundreds of organizations and cross sector-collaboratives through strategy development, coalition building, and implementation processes, customizing our approach to fit the specific needs, vision, and interests of each client and community.
As an organization, we believe we can be the best partners if we are constantly learning ourselves, sharing our learning and insights with the field, and helping to inform that learning as we engage deeply with our clients. Through customized consulting services, innovative thought leadership, and learning communities, we’re working to create a world where everyone can realize their full potential.

Contact: Chris Carlson Chris.Carlson@fsg.org

We know meaningful change takes heart, strategy, and trusted partners. At Hopeward, we collaborate with nonprofits, coalitions, and mission-driven organizations to build pathways forward. That looks like a lot of things in practice - strategic planning, program implementation, evaluation, impact storytelling, collaborative leadership, and stakeholder engagement - but at its core it's helping people, communities, and systems more forward with clarity, purpose, and care. We bring big-picture thinking and practical tools - always centering people in the work. Wherever you are in your journey, we will work alongside you to create strategies rooted in values, responsive to context, designed for real-world momentum, and built to last.

Contact: Danielle Brower, danielle@hopewardconsulting.com

Illustra Impact partners with purpose-driven organizations to develop strategies, systems, and cultures that foster sustainable communities. No matter what your strategic question, or catalyst for change is, their IMPACT framework will draw on the wisdom of your stakeholders and build collective ownership to innovate for your unique context. A key aspect of Illustra Impact's work is facilitating conversations and convening stakeholders to drive alignment and progress through strategic planning, organizational development, coalition building, and leadership capacity building. Considering the unique and evolving needs of clients, they engage a large network of impact-minded associates to customize teams and make warm hand-offs.

Contact: Whitney Buchmann, whitney@illustraimpact.com

ACCESSIBLE HYBRID COACHING & CONSULTING SERVICES

Responding to the challenges of increasing social needs, the assault on equity and decreasing equity funding, Junious Williams Consulting, Inc. (JWC) now offers Accessible Hybrid Coaching & Consulting Services—low-cost, flexible packages for nonprofits and collaboratives.

JWC is a firm with decades of experience in equity-driven strategy, collaboration design, and community change. JWC specializes in strengthening equity-focused initiatives and collective impact efforts that improve outcomes for children, families, and communities.

JWC combines the reflective process of coaching with the strategic problem-solving of consulting to provide support that is responsive, practical, and grounded in equity and systems change.

Contact: Juniouswilliamsjr@gmail.com

Leading Inside Out’s mission is to advance strategies that develop authentic, collaborative, inclusive, and accountable leadership; engage community members as partners in solving community problems; and help diverse leaders and groups achieve greater impact together. Dominique Samari and Paul Schmitz have worked with dozens of organizations and coalitions to build results-based strategies, engaged governance and partnerships; racial equity, inclusion, and asset-based community engagement; and the cultures that nurture the trust and accountability necessary for effective collaboration.

Contact: paul@paulschmitz.org

shared horizon partners with collective impact initiatives, nonprofits, and philanthropies working across the cradle-to-career continuum to advance opportunity, equity, and economic mobility so young people can thrive. Whether launching a new program or a cross-sector collaboration, shared horizon helps partners co-design, implement, measure, strengthen, and sustain youth-centered strategies that drive lasting change.

Founder Katie Napolitano brings nearly two decades of experience in collective impact, philanthropy, nonprofit leadership, and consulting. She served as a backbone co-leader of Fair Futures—the largest cross-sector collaboration and the most successful youth-led advocacy movement in child welfare history—which secured $30M+ in annual public funding and scaled a coaching model citywide, reaching over 4,300 young people from 6th grade through age 26.

Contact: Katie Napolitano, Katie@sharedhorizon.co

Transformational Leadership Coaching & Consulting

For rebels, changemakers, and smashers of the status quo on a journey of discovery and healing, Ruchi Warrier is the Transformational Leadership Coach and Partner-in-the-Work that delivers 1:1 coaching, advisory support, group facilitation, and change management strategies that help courageous leaders catalyze & navigate change so they can stay in alignment and integrity to pivot with purpose by questioning the roadmap, finding their footing, and trusting their own compass.

Because radical acceptance is revolutionary.

Contact: Ruchi@strategyandseva.com

The Collective Shift Co. helps systems leaders create lasting change—without burning out. We provide strategic support to place-based partnerships, collective impact backbones, and mission-driven leaders navigating complexity, team transitions, or growth. From interim backbone leadership to facilitation, learning design, and fractional CSO services, we meet leaders where they are and help them move forward with clarity, alignment, and care. Whether you’re launching something new, deep in a messy middle, or exploring something custom, we’re here to steady the work and support the humans leading it. Explore how we can help you sustain momentum while staying grounded in what matters most.

Contact: Lynn Debilzen, lynn@thecollectiveshift.co