The Center for Collaborative Change
Our vision is that Newark will be a thriving community full of safety, health and opportunity.
A thriving city abounds in safety, health and opportunity. Nonprofits, governments, foundations, businesses and individuals work to meet the needs of our community every day. We lack not the ideas, resources or good will we need to make positive change… but ways to connect the dots!
For Newark’s existing institutions – along with new efforts – to fuel a cycle of safety, health and opportunity, we need to focus our collective efforts on high impact initiatives that meet the city’s most critical needs. To do this, we need to:
- understand what issues are most critical to the people of the city and to breaking the current cycle of poverty, violence and disinvestment,
- build solutions informed by best practices and innovative ideas, and
- connect and integrate our efforts across sectors.
This is the work of the Center for Collaborative Change.
The mission of the Center for Collaborative Change is to connect people, ideas and resources to make Newark thrive.
Our goal is to improve people’s lives in measurable ways while ensuring that the change process includes and responds to the priorities of its community members.
Read more about our work here.
