The White House Council for Community Solutions has a mandate to “identify the key attributes of effective community-developed solutions to our national problems” with an engagement approach that emphasizes multiple sectors. As part of this effort they are working to build capacity within communities to “establish collaborative as a means to creating broad-based change.” 

One of three new resources to support the building of community capacity is the Council’s recently released, Case Studies of Effective Collaboration profiles concrete examples of collaborative community efforts that have demonstrated significant results in addressing tough problems like crime, high school graduation rates, and math test scores.