A critical component for any long-term collaboration is supporting the mental health and wellbeing for everyone involved. We discuss this topic with the national nonprofit Mind Share Partners, exploring some of the core challenges that impact mental health in collaborative settings, and what to consider when prioritizing a supportive mental health culture.

We hear from the Opportunity Youth Forum, based in the Aspen Institute Forum for Community Solutions, about what they have learned through their work across 40 urban, rural, and tribal communities, and how they are promoting Belonging, Meaning, Wellbeing, and Purpose principles within communities, programs, pathways and interventions.

We welcome back members of the Healthy Food Community of Practice to hear what they learned from their multi-year collaboration and how the way they worked together changed over time.

We talk about the launch of the Millers for Nutrition coalition, including how they convened a wide spectrum of private-sector partners to look beyond competition and work together.

We talk with Adaku Utah of Building Movement Project to explore what it means to movement-build and how strong relationships are necessary to build strong movements.

We learn about how leveraging the “four voices of design,” a human-centered design approach, can be helpful when getting to the heart of complex problems.

We learn about the collaborative effort NoLa CARES and how they use Participatory Action Research (PAR) methodology to keep community expertise and leadership at the center of the work.

We learn about how collaborating partners in Mercer County, IL, took on a "100-day challenge" to address rural homelessness and what they discovered through the process.

We replay a dynamic discussion from 2021, described as a "master class on narrative," where Melody Barnes (Aspen Institute Forum for Community Solutions) leads a conversation on the importance and power of narrative in collective social change efforts.

In this replay from a powerful 2022 episode, we hear from Rev. Dr. Starsky Wilson, President and CEO of the Children’s Defense Fund (CDF), who shares on how to reflect when we're in challenging times, how to reground, and how to move forward together.

We learn about how, when facing a growing housing crisis in California’s Coachella Valley, partner organizations came together across wide differences to achieve transformational results and build thousands of new housing units.

We talk with Harvard’s EdRedesign Lab to learn about which skills and competencies are most critical to successfully leading a backbone team.

In this replay of a 2022 episode, we explore the topic of parent engagement, and the ways parents can be powerful advocates in supporting the wellbeing of children and families in their community.

We learn more about Child Safety Forward, a initiative of the Department of Justice – Office for Victims of Crime, including a deep dive with one of their implementation sites in Sacramento, CA. The conversation explores how sustaining place-based collaborative work for the long-term can be baked into an initiative from the beginning.

We’re excited to share with you an episode of another podcast that we think you’ll find valuable for your social change work. System Catalysts, which is a new show that shares compelling stories from philanthropists and change-makers who are promoting systems change in their communities.

How do you center equity while facing opposition to doing equity work? We talk with Memphis-based Seeding Success about how they are maintaining their equity focus even as they navigate more challenges.

In this episode we talk with Cities United’s Executive Director Anthony Smith about what can be helpful to consider and prioritize when building partnerships with local and city governments to advance community change work.

In this episode we talk with Community Solutions’ president Rosanne Haggerty about the collective approach and strategies needed to end one of the most complex issues, homelessness.

In this episode, we talk with ITPC (International Treatment Preparedness Coalition) about community-led monitoring and how this practice can help unearth community pain points and influence change.

In this episode, we talk with the service organization JumpStart about community partnerships and what they learned from bringing a network of partners together.

In this episode, we learn about the South St. Petersburg CRA Listening Project, and the many lessons learned while building capacity to support Community Listening, including how community priorities change when a hurricane hits.

In this episode, we share our conversation with Krista Tippett (On Being) from the 2023 Collective Impact Action Summit. This conversation explores questions around what it means to imagine and create a world that we all want to be in together.

In this conversation with disability and inclusion activist Imani Barbarin, we discuss ways to center accessibility when creating a culture of belonging.

In this conversation with Ruchika Tulshyan, author of the book Inclusion on Purpose, we discuss ways to create a culture of Belonging within collaborative work.