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Managing and coordinating multi-sector partnerships

By engaging partners and members of the communities where your organization seeks to have an impact, your initiatives will be more creative, more strategic, and more likely to succeed.  Engaging multidisciplinary partners from relevant sectors often is necessary to benefit from complementary knowledge and expertise.  Improving educational outcomes among children and young people in low-income communities, for example, requires considering the role of community-based organizations in offering after school and out-of-school enrichment opportunities, as well as the role of formal early education centers and K-12 schools.

Examples of Impact

  • Association for High School Innovation, formerly the Alternative High School Initiative (AHSI), a Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation initiative with Big Picture Learning (http://www.bigpicture.org/2008/10/alternative-high-school-initiative-key-convener) -- Served as Director of the Alternative High School Initiative and led the Association for High School Innovation to complete and launch implementation of a business plan designed to ensure fiscal sustainability of the network by 2014. Consulted with AHSI from January through June 2011, when the network concluded operations. The AHSI network grew from six national organizations operating 29 existing schools in 2003 to having 13 members operating over 291 schools and programs by October 2009. (December 2007 through June 2011)

 

  • Annie E. Casey Foundation (http://www.aecf.org) Launched the Maryland United Parcel Service (UPS) School to Career Partnership as a member of the foundation and sustained a leadership and management role as an independent consultant to expand the initiative to seven sites across the country. (May through December 2001)

 

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