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Keeping It All Together:
Ideas For Sustaining Your Initiative
Know When to “Fold ’Em”
Sometimes, organizations try to stay in business by modifying their program to meet funding criteria. If the modifications are minimal (e.g., targeting sixth and seventh graders instead of eighth and ninth graders and adapting the program to meet different developmental stages), this strategy might work. However, as the collaboration moves farther and farther away from its original purpose or tries to become something else, interest wanes and the coalition withers.
On the positive side, once the problem around which a collaboration has formed is solved, research has found that the coalition either moves on to a related problem or considers disbanding. There is nothing inherently wrong with deciding to close up shop. In fact, it’s a good thing—and stakeholders can congratulate themselves on a job well done!
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