Full Spectrum
An emerging coalition for supporting community-led,
all-encompassing change
Full spectrum is a nascent group of experienced organizations that are calling for the mainstreaming of an important, transformative approach for communities: working across sectors and beyond silos to support sustainable, multidimensional, community-driven change.
This is, of course, not a totally new idea. What is perhaps new—and what we certainly feel urgency around—is stating more clearly the role that community-centered, holistic processes can and do play at the heart of how we support and engage with communities. Even more importantly, we want to articulate the impact these approaches can have.
We feel that such ways of working—where the full spectrum of community resources, needs and opportunities are welcomed—can make a huge contribution to both grassroots leaders and communities and the global communities working to support them.
And we feel that these ways of working should be mainstreamed so that communities are more fully supported in their journeys—all the time.
Our roadmap is simple:
From the beginning, this collaboration has been deeply connected to “sibling” movements focused on community-led change, shifting power, and localizing “development.” In exploring this coalition, we seek to compliment the momentum in these areas. Right now, we aim to create a community of practice, practitioners, funders, and partner-allies around proven approaches to elevating community-led, all-encompassing change.
We welcome the interest and engagement of all who want to contact us . We aren’t yet “taking applications” or “accepting members” as we are still defining our model of operation. At this point in time we are looking forward to hearing from anyone and everyone who is interested—whether about the opportunities you see or how you think we should approach this. Click here to fill out a short survey to share your interest, thoughts, and perspectives.
