Beyond Collaboration: Building the Infrastructure for Thriving Youth

Many of the biggest challenges nonprofits face (funding instability, data capacity, staffing, space) aren’t individual problems, but shared ones. This session explores how an emerging “network of networks” in New York City is helping organizations tackle these challenges collectively — and what it might look like to apply this model in other regions.

Across the country, youth-serving organizations are navigating a common set of pressures — from funding instability and staff burnout to growing demands for data, coordination, and impact. While these challenges often show up at the organizational level, many are shared across the field, raising questions about whether they can be more effectively addressed collectively rather than individually. This webinar brings together leaders from a regional network of networks to explore emerging approaches that strengthen connection, reduce duplication, and build shared capacity across organizations.

Attendees will gain insight into how these approaches are taking shape in practice, what it takes to coordinate across organizations with different missions and constraints, and where early lessons are beginning to surface. The conversation will also explore implications for philanthropy, including how funders can support not just individual programs, but the broader conditions that enable organizations — and the field as a whole — to thrive.