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We talk with Adaku Utah of Building Movement Project to explore what it means to movement-build and how strong relationships are necessary to build strong movements.

We learn about how leveraging the “four voices of design,” a human-centered design approach, can be helpful when getting to the heart of complex problems.

We learn about the collaborative effort NoLa CARES and how they use Participatory Action Research (PAR) methodology to keep community expertise and leadership at the center of the work.

We learn about how collaborating partners in Mercer County, IL, took on a "100-day challenge" to address rural homelessness and what they discovered through the process.

We replay a dynamic discussion from 2021, described as a "master class on narrative," where Melody Barnes (Aspen Institute Forum for Community Solutions) leads a conversation on the importance and power of narrative in collective social change efforts.

In this replay from a powerful 2022 episode, we hear from Rev. Dr. Starsky Wilson, President and CEO of the Children’s Defense Fund (CDF), who shares on how to reflect when we're in challenging times, how to reground, and how to move forward together.

We learn about how, when facing a growing housing crisis in California’s Coachella Valley, partner organizations came together across wide differences to achieve transformational results and build thousands of new housing units.

We talk with Harvard’s EdRedesign Lab to learn about which skills and competencies are most critical to successfully leading a backbone team.

In this replay of a 2022 episode, we explore the topic of parent engagement, and the ways parents can be powerful advocates in supporting the wellbeing of children and families in their community.

We learn more about Child Safety Forward, a initiative of the Department of Justice – Office for Victims of Crime, including a deep dive with one of their implementation sites in Sacramento, CA. The conversation explores how sustaining place-based collaborative work for the long-term can be baked into an initiative from the beginning.

We’re excited to share with you an episode of another podcast that we think you’ll find valuable for your social change work. System Catalysts, which is a new show that shares compelling stories from philanthropists and change-makers who are promoting systems change in their communities.

How do you center equity while facing opposition to doing equity work? We talk with Memphis-based Seeding Success about how they are maintaining their equity focus even as they navigate more challenges.