Abstract
In 2009, the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation selected
ten state asset-building coalitions across the nation to
participate in a coalition development and peer-learning
process to advance asset building in their states. These
coalitions, reflecting stakeholders from the private,
nonprofit, education, government, community
development, and advocacy sectors, met nine times over
three years to identify benchmarks for strategic
development, talk about progress moving forward, and
share ideas and innovations. The primary goal of these meetings was to help
coalitions strengthen their capacities to build enduring
state asset building infrastructures that would advance
policies and practices with impacts of scale. Capacity
building was framed as strengthening both the in-state
infrastructures as well as the cross-state peer support
and learning network. A secondary goal was to share
what they learned with others, thus this report. This
document steps through different aspects of these asset
coalitions’ strategic development. It provides examples
of their work, process, and insights