Practitioner Partnerships: Scaling Impact in a Shrinking Sector
As resources tighten and needs grow, practitioners face mounting pressure to collaborate more effectively. Strategic partnerships between implementers — whether in education systems or wildfire response — can unlock efficiency, scale, and deeper impact. But collaboration is not easy: it requires trust, coordination, and a willingness to challenge old ways of working.
This session will spotlight real-world examples, such as the five-year partnership between the Bunge Foundation and Ibama to strengthen Indigenous brigades in Brazil. Together, we’ll explore how practitioners across sectors can move beyond competition and silos to build partnerships that deliver outsized results.
Speakers
Lindsay Stradley — Co-Founder of The Sanergy Collaborative and Executive Director of Fresh Life, making safe sanitation affordable and accessible to 300,000+ people in urban Kenya.
Jenny Groot — CEO of PEAS, scaling high-quality, low-cost secondary education across Uganda, Zambia, and Ghana.
Stephanie Dobrowolski — CEO of Rising Academies, driving innovative approaches to quality education in Africa.
Jonas Batista — Project Coordinator at Bunge Foundation, leading sustainability projects with Indigenous and traditional communities in Brazil.
What to Expect
Learn from practice – Examine case studies of implementer collaborations in education, conservation, and crisis response.
Address real barriers – Discuss the tensions, trade-offs, and trust-building needed to make practitioner partnerships work.
Explore creative models – Identify ways to share resources, knowledge, and capacity for greater efficiency and impact.
Co-create principles – Develop actionable insights for scaling collaboration in a shrinking sector.
Why Join?
Understand the unique opportunities and challenges of practitioner-to-practitioner partnerships.
Gain inspiration from cross-sector collaborations tackling urgent global issues.
Share your own experiences and lessons in building partnerships at scale.
Walk away with concrete ideas for improving coordination and impact in your field.
Who Should Attend?
NGO and nonprofit practitioners seeking to collaborate more effectively.
Funders interested in supporting practitioner-led partnerships.
Government and institutional partners working with frontline implementers.
Anyone committed to scaling impact through shared practice and collaboration.