We customize the CLI to assess the metropolitan landscape's leadership and opportunities as a way of bringing non-traditional partners together to share perspectives and knowledge around common regional challenges.

In this strategic planning process, we provide support in:

• mapping community and labor organizations in specific regions;
• developing participant lists based on strategic mapping process.

For example . . .

. . . in Denver, allies used common analysis of the state's healthcare crisis to build partnerships with private business, the Colorado Consumer Health Initiative, service providers and rank-and-file SEIU members. The collaboration resulted in mobilizing for a Healthcare Lobbying Day to improve quality, expand access & increase affordability of health care.

. . . in Milwaukee, participants in the first leadership institute include non-traditional allies from Community Development Corporations, neighborhood-based associations and progressive real estate developers.