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Successes and challenges in funder collaboration: Lessons from the northwest regional convergence partnership
The resulting $300,000 pooled fund was used to diversify the food system movement in the Pacific Northwest, convene partners to identify and advance common goals, and deepen community expertise on how to create regional food systems that are healthier, more equitable, sustainable and economically robust. The author will identify both the successes and challenges of the partnership, and the factors that facilitated or hindered the achievement of their collective goals.
Systems thinking models (conceptual and theoretical models), applications related to public health
Learning Objectives:
Identify the factors that facilitate or hinder successful multi-sector collaboration;
Differentiate between the ideal “collective impact” model and the more commonly implemented initiatives that may include several – but not all – of the five required components of collective impact;
Describe how a diverse range of constituents can identify and collaborate on policy initiatives that hold the potential to fulfill multiple core goals and values.
Keywords: Community Collaboration, Foundations
Qualified on the content I am responsible for because: I led the initiative described in this abstract.
Any relevant financial relationships? No
I agree to comply with the American Public Health Association Conflict of Interest and Commercial Support Guidelines, and to disclose to the participants any off-label or experimental uses of a commercial product or service discussed in my presentation.