» Media Partnerships in Russia and China [1]
» Health at Home/Kenya: Home-based HIV Testing for 2 Million [2]
Action by individual businesses is an integral component of the global fight—including implementing strong workplace policies and programs and expanding them into the broader community. In addition to that, there are certain types of challenges that are best addressed by collective action.
Impact Initiatives are moving companies from unilateral to multilateral action—creating global work teams with a mix of cross-functional, public and private, global and local, all mobilized to make major headway on a common objective. The strategy increases coherence and further moves public health efforts out of the silos that hold back their full potential.
Impact Initiatives are currently underway in China, Kenya, Russia and the United States.
» GBC President and CEO John Tedstrom on the strategy behind Impact Initiatives [4]
» Meet GBC Vice President for Partnerships and Impact Initiatives, Ilze Melngailis [5]
Engineering an Impact Initiative
Coalition staff guide the development of the initiative, assembly of partners and execution, as well as ongoing monitoring and evaluation. The Coalition maintains dedicated personnel in each Impact Initiative region to provide localized technical guidance. Globally, the initiatives are managed by the vice president of Impact Initiatives in New York.
Impact Initiatives are generally organized along the following lines:

Links:
[1] http://www.gbcimpact.org/node/1083
[2] http://www.gbcimpact.org/health-at-home-kenya
[3] http://www.gbcimpact.org/us
[4] http://www.gbcimpact.org/itcs_node/0/0/article/908
[5] http://www.gbcimpact.org/ilze-melngailis
[6] http://www.gbcimpact.org/membership-inquiry