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Collective Impact as Means to Create Change: A Cautionary Tale

By Glenn Landers Director, Health Systems, Georgia Health Policy Center Cutting poverty. Improving high school graduation rates. Reducing health disparities. Progress towards these ambitious goals can be slow, as the work towards achieving large-scale social impact is complex. Seven years ago, the publication of John Kania and Mark Kramer’s influential paper defining “collective impact,” the […]

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Building on Communities’ Strengths to Achieve Better Health and Well-Being in Rural Georgia

By Tanisa Foxworth Adimu About 60 million people living in the United States live in rural communities, with nearly 1.8 million living in rural Georgia, according to the 2010 census. Rural America is not monolithic and includes a wide variety of locales, from densely populated small towns to neighborhoods on the border of urban areas […]

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