Strengthening Collaboration to Build Social Movements: Ten Lessons from the Communities for Public Education Reform Fund (CPER)

When change goals are large and far-reaching, no single organization or foundation can achieve them.  Rather, big changes are most often achieved by broad movements.  This report explores effective grantmaker strategies to nurture collaboration between field advocates and allies in order to advance social change, grounded in CPER’s experience of working with local groups and national coalitions over eight years.