A Gateway for Coalitions, Researchers, and Systems Leaders

Understand

Coalitions are strongest when shared purpose, resident leadership, practical infrastructure, and learning reinforce one another. Growing HOPE connects the four building blocks to the organizational and community conditions that make positive experiences possible.

• Define the positive experiences and conditions the partnership wants to grow.
• Use local data and lived experience together.
• Name power, decision rights, resources, and accountability early.

Explore

• Use the systems map to connect people, relationships, organizations, community conditions, and policy.
• Review implementation readiness before launching another program.
• Open the evidence and claims guide for research boundaries, measures, and limitations.
• Use the community conversation guide to surface assets and shared action.

Put It Into Practice

• Convene a cross-sector core with meaningful parent and resident decision-making roles.
• Write one measurable aim that includes reach, inclusion, and equity.
• Choose the smallest useful coordinated action and define who owns it.
• Create a low-burden learning loop that can change the next decision.

Go Deeper

• Align grants and investments with long-term community capacity, not only short grant deliverables.
• Examine how policies, transportation, housing, care access, schools, public spaces, and workforce conditions distribute opportunity.
• Use research partnerships to strengthen community authority, interpretation, and shared benefit.

Work With Kimberly

Kimberly supports coalition development, strategic planning, facilitation, grant and funding strategy, cross-sector alignment, community-led learning, and implementation partnerships.