PAPER | Creating Containers and Co-Design: Transforming Collaboration

Creating Containers and Co-Design: Transforming Collaboration

It starts with collaboration. This is the coming together of two or more organizations to work collectively, share authority, decision-making and accountability to influence or resolve community opportunities or challenges. Collaboration is viewed as an opportunity for partners to create something new or scale up an existing approach together that might be impossible for a single organization to do on its own.

In 'Creating Containers and Co-Design: Transforming Collaboration', Liz Weaver identifies the role of collaboration in Collective Impact initiatives, and community change efforts more broadly, as well as framing the roles and tasks of community collaboratives as containers for change. 

This is the third paper in the 2018 Community Change Festival Series, highlighting each of the 5 interconnected practices essential for community change.



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