The Community Partnerships Issue Briefs Series: Building and Sustaining Partnerships to Advance a Postsecondary Systems Change Agenda

This brief is the fourth in a series developed in 2013 for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and focuses on building and sustaining partnerships to better support postsecondary completion.

In 2013, Equal Measure (then known as the OMG Center for Collaborative Learning) with our client the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, published a series of briefs investigating the key principles of systems change through collective impact strategies, gleaned from a national evaluation of the Foundation’s Community Partnerships Portfolio. This brief addresses two questions:

  • Why is building and sustaining a partnership important for place-based investments?
  • How can communities successfully build and sustain partnerships that advance a postsecondary systems change agenda?

The other briefs in our community partnerships series are below:

  1. Building Commitment
  2. Using Data
  3. Aligning Policies and Practices
  4. Building and Sustaining Partnerships (viewing now)
  5. Amplifying Learning

Client: Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

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