By Michele Jolin, Paul Schmitz, Willa Seldon, The Bridgespan Group
Community collaboratives can drastically impact the communities they serves while increasing cross-sector partnerships between funders, nonprofit organizations and others stakeholders. With the help of the White House Council for Community Solutions, The Bridgespan Group analyzed 12 community collaboratives that achieved "needle-moving change," a 10% or greater improvement on specific community-level metrics. This report shares these case studies, citing successes, challenges and trends.