Category: Creating and Sustaining Partnerships

When Reinventing Isn’t Just a Catchphrase

So, what happens when county school superintendents, the mayor of the county seat, major institutions and companies big and small throw out the playbook for how secondary and post-secondary education was always run and join up on the same team?  It might just lead to reinventing an entire region and re-envisioning its future. The Yadkin…

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Making Change Stick

Making collective impact work starts by underscoring the collective part.  Our alliance believes that when communities truly create change together, it is change that withstands funding cycles, election results, leadership and generational shifts.  It is change that sticks. One of the hardest concepts to embrace when working on social problems is the idea that everyone brings something…

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