Recent Projects
In two working sessions with a committee of the board and its senior staff, the Community Partners team profiled the kinds of organizations that support educational initiatives in their communities along with current examples.
The team interviewed key employees to understand their roles and responsibilities, work processes, supporting data and systems, as well as constraints and bottlenecks. The team assessed current processes and staffing levels and identified opportunities to simplify and improve processes. The team recommended a structure that provided the needed functional abilities, facilitated key processes, leveraged employee abilities and experience, and provided better workload balance.
Community Partners was asked by UWWC to help with strategic execution of the Cradle to Career program. It helped get the program up and running. Starting with a concept on paper three years ago, the program is now functioning with action projects focused on Infant Heath, Kindergarten Readiness, Early Grade Reading and Post-Secondary Success.
| Vita Co-educators Project Community Partners was asked to help create a strategic plan, create a measurement system, and to help support implementation of the project with regular progress review and planning meetings. |
19/10/2017
GBYO is an outstanding opportunity for young, school-age musicians, running six orchestras geared to different age/ skills during the school year. Students from 30 communities in Fairfield and New Haven counties participate. CP ran a brainstorming session to identify new, sustainable sources of revenue to support their continued growth
08/03/2017
The leadership of CIRI requested assistance in developing a new three-year strategic plan. The plan was completed and put into effect in time for the announcement of its new name and centennial celebration (1918-2018).
08/02/2017
CLICC asked CP for support in developing a short-term strategic plan. We worked with CLICC to 1) prioritize its strategic needs; 2) map current and future operational processes and resource requirements; 3) develop a new organizational structure and staff job descriptions, and 4) formalize current goals and future vision.
09/02/2017
Better Beginnings seeks to prevent chronic disease and childhood obesity and promote healthy eating habits in young children by inspiring, educating and enabling parents to feed in ways that encourage healthy habits in their children. CP helped Better Beginnings build on and expand its success, focusing on how to reach more people, more effectively over the next 2-5 years.
06/01/2017
Faced with state cutbacks CP was asked to facilitate a working session of the board. The purpose of the session was to secure a consensus around near- and medium-term decisions to be made in the next year. The session focused on developing a set of internal guidelines for maintenance, repair priorities and replacement opportunities.