Heeding the Call for Community Partnerships

<p>In this episode, we discuss the power of community partnerships, and how necessary they are when working to support better outcomes for the whole community. </p><p>In this discussion, we learn about the community partnership work of <strong>JumpStart</strong>, a service organization that focuses on supporting folks re-entering society after incarceration. Partnerships are a critical factor to support JumpStart’s participants in finding what they need so they can more fully rejoin their communities, including employment, housing, and healthcare. </p><p>To share about their partnership journey and what they’ve learned so far, we hear from <strong>Don Williams</strong>, who is a co-founder of JumpStart and Director of Community Relations. Don shares about the long road JumpStart has traveled to provide a whole eco-system of partners to support their participants, and how important it was that even when they faced negative biases, they never gave up trying. <br /><br /><strong>References and Footnotes</strong></p><p><a href="https://www.jumpstartvision.org/">JumpStart</a><br /><a href="https://www.fsg.org/resource/water_of_systems_change/">The Water of Systems Change</a></p><p><strong>More on Collective Impact</strong></p><p>Infographic: <a href="https://www.collectiveimpactforum.org/what-is-collective-impact/" target="_blank">What is Collective Impact?</a><br />Resource List: <a href="https://www.collectiveimpactforum.org/getting-started/" target="_blank">Getting Started in Collective Impact</a></p><p>The Intro music, entitled “Running,” was composed by Rafael Krux, and can be found <a href="https://filmmusic.io/song/5434-running/">here</a> and is licensed under <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/">CC: By 4.0.</a></p><p>The outro music, entitled “Deliberate Thought,” was composed by <a href="https://incompetech.com/">Kevin Macleod</a>. Licensed under <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/">CC: By.</a></p><p>Have a question related to collaborative work that you'd like to have discus