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Community Partners offers critical support, guidance and training to people with innovative ideas for building communities. Community Partners recognizes, invests in and celebrates the critical role individuals and groups play in achieving a just, vibrant civil society.

Since 1992, we have provided services to more than 550 projects and civic leaders through our Incubator Services, Strategic Initiatives and Resources. We offer a wide range of individualized consulting, leadership development, administrative assistance, training workshops and network building that help organizations address the needs of our community in ways that are more strategic, more effective, and which have the greatest impact possible.

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Why

Social entrepreneurs need opportunities to establish their ideas, an infrastructure to be effective, and the capacity to develop leadership skills.

 To succeed, complex community initiatives and networks require skilled coordination, support and technical assistance to build capacity. Solid, accurate information and access to the appropriate resources is the key to success. Helping project leaders make connections to move their efforts forward is a constant at Community Partners.
What We offer fiscal sponsorship, guidance and counsel to fledgling projects, allowing their leadership to work on their idea immediately, without the red tape and hassles of starting a nonprofit.

 

We also provide the latest capacity-building information, techniques and training for nonprofit management. Learn more about our Core Competencies.

 We partner with organizations, networks, funders and government agencies to address key issues throughout the state and link community needs with resources. We serve an important convening and connecting role for civic and social entrepreneurs. It happens formally, through our peer learning groups, networks and workshops. It also happens informally, as our staff, Board of Directors and Project Leaders provide access to important resources and key decision-makers in government, philanthropy, business and other nonprofit organizations.

 

Also, our Special Reports provide in-depth studies of issues essential to the health of the region.
Who Neighborhood, community and civic leaders who have innovative solutions for society’s most pressing challenges. Initiatives and consulting projects are brought to us by diverse sources, including foundation and community leaders, business people and elected officials. Project leaders and the general public connect to cutting-edge community-building resources.
Example Breast cancer survivors in Watts came to Community Partners to start SISTERS, a network for those dealing with this serious disease. (You can see a complete list of incubator projects.) The Durfee Foundation came to Community Partners to support a peer learning group of their grant recipients, maximizing the impact of Durfee’s grants. Learn more about our peer learning work and other special projects. Community leaders call Community Partners for critical, but often difficult to find information – one group was exploring whether or not to start an after-school program for neighborhood children and called Community Partners for help. Our staff was able to help them determine if other programs already existed in their neighborhood and connected them to other excellent after-school programs in the region.

 

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