Coalition-Based Social Change Initiatives

摘要: ABSTRACT This paper presents a model for establishing and maintaining social change coalitions. The model, based on the authors' study of successful coalition-based initiative, highlights potential contribution neutral, external support agency whose goal is to help group organizations collaborate in an effort promote policy area shared concern. brings knowledge experience working with coalitions, needs be trusted by all coalition partners, should perceived as not competing recognition or resources, having only common mind. components methodology employed develop it are presented, followed assessment its generalizability other settings. Experts, from different disciplines, countries ethnic backgrounds, advised that this has great solving problems many areas.