Why has Strive made progress when so many other efforts
have failed? It is because a core group of community leaders
decided to abandon their individual agendas in favor of a collective
approach to improving student achievement.
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in title, tags, annotations or urlCollective Impact (November 17, 2010) | Stanford Social Innovation Review - 0 views
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These leaders realized that fixing one point on the educational continuum—such as better after-school programs—wouldn’t make much difference unless all parts of the continuum improved at the same time. No single organization, however innovative or powerful, could accomplish this alone. Instead, their ambitious mission became to coordinate improvements at every stage of a young person’s life, from “cradle to career.”
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Strive, both the organization and the process it helps facilitate, is an example of collective impact, the commitment of a group of important actors from different sectors to a common agenda for solving a specific social problem.
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Early Learning Prevents Youth Violence - 0 views
Effective Strategies to Support Positive Parenting in Community Health Centers - 0 views
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The Violence Prevention Office in the APA Public Interest Directorate staffed the working group. The report identifies and recommends public health strategies and interventions based on the best available science to prevent child maltreatment and to promote positive parenting practices within the context of behavioral health integration at community health centers.
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