GA Partners have collaborated on a range of projects including regional conferences, curriculum development, membership trainings, communications technology planning/ integration and fellowship recruitment and selection.

The GA continues to strengthen the youth civic engagement field in the following ways:

Coordination/Collaboration: Through asset mapping, coordinated planning, information sharing, and division of labor, we are: 1) identifying and coordinating existing member programming; 2) developing strategic new collaborative efforts to accomplish our organizational, field and movement goals; and 3) avoiding duplication of efforts.

Capacity Building: Through training, the consolidation and sharing of best practices, technical assistance provision and collaborative project development, we are building the capacities of our organizations, campaigns, fields and movements.

Bridge-Building: We are building an ethic of collaboration among and building sustainable bridges between participating members and strategic partners, across sectors and issues.

Issue Advocacy: We are placing a national spotlight on issues and influencing policy related to the priority concerns of our target constituencies.

Vision Promotion: We are promoting a shared progressive vision and values by documenting and broadly disseminating our movement building experiences and lessons learned working together across issues and sectors.

Joint Infrastructure Development: We are building a national communications and coordination infrastructure and issues/values platform to serve as the foundation for an ongoing collaborative field and movement building initiative.

Resource Development/Funder Advocacy: We are increasing long-term financial investments in our organizations and fields by: 1) making a strong case for the effectiveness of our unique strategies; and 2) leveraging our collective influence to help develop a “build” rather than “buy” mentality that encourages donors to invest in our collective infrastructure, rather than to make a one-time donation in programs, votes or services.

The GA approaches each collaborative effort as an opportunity to learn and document lessons learned – the challenges equally as enlightening as the successes. Over the long-term, we aim to apply these documented experiences to the development and dissemination of adaptable models for strategic and sustainable cross-sector collaboration.