Our core partnerships are with organizations that share our values and practices and go beyond a funding relationship to focus on collaborative efforts and/or collective action to positively impact children and youth.
Conditions Key to Collective Success
Common agenda, shared vision, and acting in concert
Continuous communication and a common vocabulary
Shared measurement systems and agreed criteria for success
Backbone support organization and additional resources
Mutually reinforcing activities and coordination with the actions of others
Funders must help create and sustain the collective process
Adapted from Kania, John, and Mark Kramer. “Collective Impact.”
Stanford Social Innovation Review 9, no. 1 (2011): 36–41.
https://doi.org/10.48558/5900-KN19.