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Message from Community Resources |
Every Community Resources project starts with bringing groups of people together to find real solutions to problems in their communities. These partnerships can take many shapes, including collaboration. Collaboration can be challenging. In meeting these challenges, participants make discoveries about each other-and about themselves-that lead them to produce extraordinary results. We've seen it happen again and again.
A true collaboration involves organizations working together as equal partners. A worthy goal, but as the executive directors in the New Jersey Youth Initiative quickly realized, one that is foreign to the way most of our institutions are structured. The three youth organizations in the Initiative expanded the range of their individual programs by giving each other access to their facilities. That was the easy part. The deeper work of the Initiative occurred when the directors gave each other access to their different experiences and perspectives regarding working with vulnerable teenagers. In doing so, they've shared some good ideas-but more importantly, they've been re-inspired. Good collaborations lead to a more passionate commitment to finding high-impact solutions to the issues that we care about most deeply.
Collaboration has its practical aspects, as well. By pooling resources, organizations avoid duplicating services and close service gaps more effectively. YouthBuild Newark has acquired legal, educational, and health services for the young people in the program by enrolling collaborators who understand the importance of creating solid support structures for youth who drop out of high school or end up living on the street. Collaboration also gives us an opportunity to practice tolerance, creativity, honesty, and respect for diversity-all core values at Community Resources and Prudential Financial.
The collaborative approach has always been one of Prudential's winning corporate strategies. When we integrate the efforts of our various divisions, we optimize the company's resources and empower employees. The synergy created when the Business Diversity Outreach Unit moved under the Community Resources' umbrella is testament to that.
Community Resources is well aware of the power of collaboration. Our role in the process is to bring people together and create the space where innovative problem-solving can happen. Working alone, none of us can make real, longterm differences in the very complex issues we are dealing with in our neighborhoods. Working together, we can.
Sharon C. Taylor
Sr. Vice President, Community Resources
Chairman, The Prudential Foundation |
Gabriella E. Morris
Vice President, Community Resources
President, The Prudential Foundation |
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