Needle-Moving Community Collaboratives: A Promising Approach to Addressing America’s Biggest Challenges
Communities face powerful challenges — a high-school dropout epidemic, youth unemployment, teen pregnancy — that require powerful solutions. In a climate of increasingly constrained resources, those solutions must help communities to achieve more with less. A new kind of community collaborative — an approach that aspires to significant community-wide progress by enlisting all sectors to work together toward a common goal — offers enormous promise to bring about broader, more lasting change across the nation.
