When communities seek to tackle complex issues—whether it’s addressing food insecurity, improving early childhood education, supporting older adults, or developing the workforce—their go-to solution is often to organize a new network, coalition, or alliance. These efforts, typically fueled by well-intentioned goals of cross-sector collaboration, aim
Building systems with alignment across your community partnerships, especially among diverse and large institutions, is a formidable task. It requires not only a willingness to change but also the readiness to acknowledge past inefficiencies or missteps. This challenge is compounded when resources are limited or
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