Teaching Collective Impact Initiatives A Case Study of 15th Night Serving Unhoused Youth

Collective impact initiatives have attracted considerable attention of both scholars and practitioners. Often defined as cross-sectoral collaborations, they seek to address social problems in communities and generate long-term impact. This teaching case provides a literature review on collective impact initiatives, and its critics, and a case study developed with community partners of one collective impact initiative—a collaboration serving young people experiencing homelessness. The paper ends with a list of discussion questions and suggested activities and assignments instructors may find useful.