Cross-Sector Collaboration

North Carolina Politicians Come Together To Support Reading

September 6, 2025

This guest post was written by Becky Smothers, Mayor, City of High Point. In Guilford County: Collective Impact In Action, Brian Cockman wrote about the importance of collective impact and how it’s helping to shape Guilford County Schools’ 3 Million Books Challenge. Members of the local media support the reading campaign through guest blog posts and [...]

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Cradle to Career language included in District Race to the Top Draft Regulations

June 8, 2025

Exciting news for the Strive Network! Cradle to Career language has been included in draft regulations for District Race to the Top program. Included in the recently released draft is a competitive preference priority for Cradle-to-Career Results, Resource Alignment and Integrated Services. This is a great moment for the Strive Network, and a testament to the work [...]

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Developing Shared Measures

December 8, 2025

I had the opportunity to spend some additional time with some visitors from Germany who came to Cincinnati to take part in the recent Strive Discovery Workshop. They have become very interested in the collective impact approach to a cradle to career initiative and wanted to learn more about what is taking place in Cincinnati. They [...]

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Collective Impact

March 8, 2026

The Stanford Social Innovation Review recently published “Collective Impact,” an article about large-scale social change requiring broad cross-sector coordination. Written by John Kania and Mark Kramer, the overarching principle is that the social sector largely works in isolated segments of need – each foundation has its own mission, its own purpose, its own cause. And [...]

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