Initiative: To develop a fundamental, collaborative culture among businesses, schools, families and other organizations.

The proactive pursuit of the creation of community partnerships reflects a growing realization that individual entities - governments, nonprofits and businesses - which may have acted independently of one another in the past - can often create better results when working together.

Community partnerships are built on shared or complementary strengths of all the Vision Implementation Partners, and can involve one or more of the following activities:

• Information exchanges
• Research
• Contributions of personnel or resources
• Promotional efforts
• Development or strengthening of community services and capabilities

Partnerships typically involve both a benefit and a risk element to all parties involved. Benefits include developing trust and goodwill in communities, securing or expanding market position, enhancing brand image, improving risk management, and attracting and retaining employees.

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