To help ensure these goals are achieved via SZ4D, BECG is recommending that SZ4D seek to establish a Collective Impact (CI) framework. CI is the commitment of a group of people from different sectors to a common agenda for solving a specific social problem, using a structured form of collaboration. It is essentially the “how” to effectively achieve a big vision. CI has quickly grown in popularity and has been recognized as an important framework for progress on social issues by the White House Council for Community Solutions and the National Academy of Science, Engineering and Medicine. CI is designed in contrast with the isolated impact approach in which single entities try to make the most impact with the fewest resources. Instead, SZ4D community members should be envisioned as playing a role in a larger cooperative effort that is seeking to accomplish long-term transformative impacts guided by the CI framework. Previous research has shown that successful CI initiatives typically meet five criteria: a common agenda, a shared measurement system, mutually reinforcing activities, continuous communication, and a backbone organization. When these five criteria can be met, the successful result observed involves cascading levels of linked collaboration.