Four strategies for developing lasting partnerships with employers drawn from an exchange between NYC Mission Society and Phipps Neighborhoods.

Here at SSN, our 40+ members use a common social-emotional learning measurement tool and dataset to shine a light on compelling trends and questions, seek out opportunities for collaboration, and strengthen the impact of our network.

SSN is a community of diverse schools and nonprofits who acknowledge their differences, but pool their knowledge and strengths to put all students on a path to success. SSN’s Collabs, small groups of practitioners that meet monthly to achieve shared goals, are spaces where this collaboration happens.

I see this blog as a way of sharing these ideas with and beyond the Network and our thought partners and seeing which ideas you respond to, how you add to them and make them better. In that vein, here’s what I’m thinking about right now.