Coalition-Based Social Change Initiatives

This paper presents a model for establishing and maintaining social change coalitions. The model, based on the authors' study of a successful coalition-based social change initiative, highlights the potential contribution of a neutral, external support agency whose goal is to help a group of organizations collaborate in an effort to promote change in social policy in an area of shared concern. The external agency brings knowledge and experience in working with coalitions, needs to be trusted by all the coalition partners, and should be perceived as not competing for recognition or resources, and as having only the common goal in mind. The components of the model and the methodology employed to develop it are presented, followed by assessment of its generalizability to other settings. Experts, from different disciplines, countries and ethnic backgrounds, advised that this model has great potential for solving social problems in many different areas

Agency (philosophy · Business · Generalizability theory · Knowledge management · Political science · Public relations · Social change · Social science · Sociology · Community Health and Development · Computer Science · Evaluation and Performance Assessment · Health Policy Implementation Science · Psychology

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