Designing and building impactful anchor collaboratives
The challenges our cities face today are daunting: but when a community’s leading anchor institutions commit to working together collaboratively, the solutions we need are in reach. By intentionally aligning their collective resources for stronger, more inclusive local economies and healthier local communities, anchor collaboratives have the power to make real change happen— if they can work together to effectively set and advance goals.
On June 11th and 12th, leaders from anchor collaboratives from across the country will convene in Baltimore to learn and build together, sharing the best practices and lessons learned that can enable more impactful and more efficient city-level anchor initiatives.
On June 11th and 12th, leaders from anchor collaboratives from across the country will convene in Baltimore to learn and build together, sharing the best practices and lessons learned that can enable more impactful and more efficient city-level anchor initiatives.
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Anchor institutions are nonprofit or public place-based entities such as universities and hospitals that are rooted in their local community by mission, invested capital, or relationships to customers, employees, residents and vendors. Anchor institutions therefore have an ability to engage in long term-planning in a manner that aligns their institutional interests with those of their local communities. Thus they have both ability and motivation to play a key role in improving the long-term well-being of the communities they serve by better aligning their institutional resources - like hiring, purchasing, investment, and volunteer base, with the needs of those communities.
An increasing number of anchor institutions have joined together to form anchor collaboratives. Anchor collaboratives can take many forms, but generally consist of a network of anchor institutions based in the community that join together to support initiatives that advance equitable and inclusive economic development strategies and provide a platform for managing area-wide anchor collaborative initiatives. Through collaboratives, anchors are able to share best practices, collaborate, an plan interventions that accelerate community growth. |
Baltimore, Maryland
This gathering will feature a bus tour of anchor work in Baltimore, a networking reception at the University of Maryland, Baltimore, and a full-day of discussion and workshopping at the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond, Baltimore Branch.
Photos courtesy of the Baltimore Integration Partnership
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