Reciprocal Relationships: A Community Vision

Sheresa Boone Blanchard; Shawnic Johnson; Jennifer Stone; Kaitlyn Seay Call

doi:10.33596/coll.100

Reciprocal Relationships: A Community Vision

Collaborations: A Journal of Community-Based Research and Practice

Volume 6 (2023): Issue 1

By: Sheresa Boone Blanchard, Shawnic Johnson, Jennifer Stone and Kaitlyn Seay Call

Open Access

|Mar 2023

Abstract

Community initiatives are started in a variety of ways including tackling tenacious community issues and addressing persistent disparities across residents. An urban/rural, county-wide initiative in the southeastern United States, gathered a cross-sector group to create a culture of literacy. Armed with an “all children are our children” attitude, stakeholders transformed thoughts into programs and initiatives (i.e., Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library and Campaign for Grade Level Reading) by cultivating reciprocal relationships and partnerships. Through chronicling the history of the coalition and analyzing interviews with 19 foundational community stakeholders, this paper will discuss how the partnership formed and how individual motivations reinforced stakeholders’ investment of time and commitment to the cause, becoming a springboard into a more permanent community initiative.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.33596/coll.100 | Journal eISSN: 2638-4396

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Language: English

Page range: 2 - 2

Published on: Mar 6, 2023

Published by: University of Miami Libraries

In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services

Keywords:

partnership,

early literacy,

stakeholder perspectives,

community

© 2023 Sheresa Boone Blanchard, Shawnic Johnson, Jennifer Stone, Kaitlyn Seay Call, published by University of Miami Libraries
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