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Celebrate-coalitions

What Does a Coalition Do? It Celebrates – Part 1 

Week one: Celebration. Learn 3 tips for celebrating your coalition members.

Gratitude and Building Coalitions

Week four of our new Spotlight: Giving Thanks. We recap all we've discussed about gratitude and coalition building.
Implementing-Thankfulness

3 tips for Practicing Thankfulness – Implementing it! 

Week three of our new Spotlight: Giving Thanks. Learn 3 tips for implementing thankfulness.

3 Tips for Practicing Thankfulness: Focus on Giving

Week two of our new Spotlight: Giving Thanks. Learn 3 tips for giving thanks regularly to your coalition members.
PracticingThankfulness

3 Tips for Practicing Thankfulness and Making it a Habit

Week one of our new Spothlight: Giving Thanks. Learn 3 tips for making gratitude a weekly ritual.

Leading Through Change: Lessons from Kelly and Trena

When coalitions face budget cuts, uncertainty, or burnout, what keeps them going? In our 3-part video series, two respected coalition leaders—Kelly Wells Sittig (Iowa Cancer Consortium) and Trena Mitchell (Arkansas Cancer Coalition)—shared candid stories about leading through real challenges.
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Most Popular Posts

Regaining your rhythm: 7 practical actions to reclaim your energy

When you are struggling with multiple people requesting your attention, many decisions to make and potential coalition priorities, the pressure to quickly respond can be overwhelming.

Take your own advice.

In our coalition work, we are constantly planning and hosting meetings, projects and events. Depending upon our time, staff/leader capacity and partner availability, these can have varying levels of complexity and require us to consider many factors.

Top 10 Tips for Facilitating an Online Meeting

Since our work continues to focus on online meetings, we have to keep practicing and learning what works and what does not work for our specific meeting needs and audiences.

10 Keys to Accountability

No one wants to talk about it (and we did - check out Part 1 and Part 2 Masterclasses!) but accountability is an important aspect of coalition building and trust building.

Eight Elements of Effective Meetings

Whether you are meeting in person for the first time in a LONG time or you are still primarily virtual, you want people to want to come to your meetings.

Trust: How do you build it?

We can easily say “trust” is important or we want more “trust” in our coalition, but actually building trust takes time and intentionality. Building trust = building and maintaining relationships.

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