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When community groups struggle to define collective impact across different timescales

Our neighborhood group has been working on local issues for five years and some members think we should focus on immediate problems like potholes while others want to tackle bigger systemic issues and we're stuck because everyone agrees we want to 'make a difference' but no one can agree what that means.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The desire to create lasting change fragments when members operate with different assumptions about how transformation happens and what scale of impact constitutes meaningful legacy.

Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with What legacy means — a philosophical survey?”

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