Sustaining Commitment with Community Partners
This strategy-focused course is for anyone working collaboratively with community members, coalitions, nonprofits, public agencies, or cross-sector partners. Designed for both new and long-standing collaboratives, the course addresses a common challenge: how to keep people engaged, participating, and moving forward together over time—especially when the work is complex and voluntary.
You’ll explore five core strategies for maintaining momentum, including setting clear time boundaries, strengthening relationships across the group, balancing dialogue with action, redefining what “action” looks like, and shifting the stories we tell about commitment. Grounded in the Civic Canopy’s Community Learning Model, the course blends research, real-world examples, and facilitation tools to help groups create the conditions for trust, shared ownership, and sustained collaboration—even when energy dips or conflict arises.
Course•By Kale McMonagle