Building the Just Communities Movement

Courtney has a decade of experience in the nonprofit sector including work in adult learning, coaching, facilitation, training design and implementation, and project management. His professional experience has focused on building the capacity of direct service organizations to engage in collaborative and collective impact work by focusing on access to and use of data to inform practice and navigating organizational change by addressing adaptive and technical challenges.

Courtney serves as the director of programs and partnerships of the Collective Impact Forum at FSG where he is responsible for the design, implementation, and management of programming (i.e., communities of practice, action learning labs, and leadership development series with themes such as embedding equity in collaborative work, creating meaningful community ownership, and pursuing systems change) that supports individuals, backbones, and communities engaging in collective 
impact work.

The Collective Impact Forum, an initiative of the Aspen Institute Forum for Community Solutions and FSG, invites you to the annual Collective Impact Action Summit, taking place April 29–May 1, 2025. The Summit is the biggest “collective impact” learning event of the year, bringing together backbone leaders, practitioners, funders, partners, and more to explore how we can shape our collective future.

Over three days, collaboration leaders gather to dream boldly, expand our vision and reimagine what is possible, exploring how community collaboration rooted in equity and belonging is an essential ingredient in shaping a world where everyone thrives.  You will leave inspired by the imagination and innovation of practitioners all over the world united towards collective action.

Jennifer Splansky Juster is Executive Director of the fielding-building initiative the Collective Impact Forum. She is one of FSG’s leaders in collective impact field building, has worked on multiple collective impact engagements, designed training opportunities for thousands collective impact practitioners, and frequently speaks on the topic. Jennifer has co-authored multiple publications on collective impact, including the report Guide to Evaluating Collective Impact and the articles “Centering Equity in Collective Impact,” “Committing to Collective Impact: From Vision to Implementation,” and “Essential Mindset Shifts for Collective Impact.”