This article explores Kin’s approach to integrating organizational healing and strategic planning and looks at the conditioned patterns that are often barriers to organizations achieving impact.
Backbone Leadership is Different: The Skills and Mindset Shifts Needed for Collective Impact co-authored by Paul Schmitz and Dominique Samari (Collective Impact Forum, 2024)
This report draws from their observations partnering with and supporting dozens of collaboratives over the past 10 years. They share what they have seen practiced by successful backbone teams, including three critical mindset shifts and six skill sets that, when distributed across a backbone team, supports their work in guiding and facilitating their collaborative, ultimately helping the group reach their shared goals.
Racial Equity Toolkit by Dominique Samari and Paul Schmitz (Collective Impact Forum, 2023)
The Racial Equity Toolkit is designed to support backbone staff and partners to operationalize racial equity throughout their collective impact work. Through a mix of personal reflection exercises, conversations, and activities, this toolkit will help teams explore how centering racial equity can advance their strategies, build understanding, strengthen relationships, and support in reaching their collective goals.
Podcast: Exploring How to Use the New Racial Equity Toolkit (Collective Impact Forum, March 16, 2023)
A deep dive discussion about a new resource called the Racial Equity Toolkit designed to support backbone staff and partners to operationalize racial equity throughout their collective impact work.
Linking Organizational Strategy and Race Equity Work, co-authored by Dominique Samari (Nonprofit Quarterly, 2022)
Racial equity work exists along a continuum of depth and intended impact: from shorter-term trainings and retreats meant to bring people to a baseline of understanding, to longer-term work that attempts to transform the ways that staff and board members interact with one another and with their constituents, ultimately transforming program design and impact as well. Here, we focus on that latter part of the continuum—specifically how that critically important work is increasingly interacting with—and disrupting—how organizations approach strategy development and planning.
The Gift of Complexity By Dominique Samari (Medium, March 202).
This piece for the Our Human Family series looks at the personal growth possible when we are open to understanding and reconciling the conflicting parts of ourselves and others.
We Can Squeeze Positive Racial Change From This Moment, if We Work for It
By Dominique Samari (Milwaukee Magazine, August 2020) This essay focuses on how we can get to work on a better, more racially just Milwaukee.
A City and Life That’s Segregated by Dominique Samari (Urban Milwaukee, August 2020)
This op-ed examines segregation in Milwaukee and looks at our individual responsibility in creating change.