Collective Impact

Today, many social problems have become too complex for isolated interventions. Collective Impact, which promotes cross-sector coalitions in working towards a common goal and along a structured collaborative approach, offers a way to achieve meaningful and sustainable progress in addressing large systemic-wide social issues.

Using this approach, a group of family and corporation foundations have agreed to set up a Collective Impact platform, initially focused on early childhood educare for disadvantaged families, to help families overcome barriers to learning and social integration. The SIE Fund has entered into a strategic partnership with the funders' group.
 

  • Liza Green of Credit Suisse, one of the funders on the Collective Impact platform, shares her views on the work of SIE Fund and the development of the Collective platform:

Start from the Beginning – Chinese Supporting Scheme for Non-Chinese Speaking Students in Kindergarten

With the support of this Collect Impact platform, Oxfam has launched a two-year project "Start from the Beginning - Chinese Supporting Scheme for Non-Chinese Speaking Students in Kindergarten" in 2017/18 school year to support non-Chinse speaking (NCS) kindergarten students in learning the Chinese language and to facilitate their parents in creating a rich Chinese language environment at home.


Research on the needs of kindergartens in teaching ethnic minority students

With the support of the Collective Impact platform, Zubin Foundation conducted a half-year research project in 2017 on the needs of kindergartens in teaching ethnic minority students. The professional views and experience of the teachers were collected to help formulate suitable measures of intervention in future.