This brief is the first in a series developed in 2013 for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and focuses on building commitment among stakeholders 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 commitment important for place-based investments?
- How can communities successfully build commitment to a postsecondary change agenda?
The other briefs in our community partnerships series are below:
- Building Commitment (viewing now)
- Using Data
- Aligning Policies and Practices
- Building and Sustaining Partnerships
- Amplifying Learning
