OUR THEORY OF CHANGE

The Making Connections Network is more than a community group or association. It is a holistic system for family strengthening and community transformation, with an unrelenting focus on results.

The Network is about:

• Building community demand for results, by mobilizing residents and stakeholders around an equity agenda creating opportunity for families and transforming neighborhoods. The Network is about higher aspirations, and about providing both the expectation of a better future as well as the connections and collective power to pursue it.
• Creating new connections to systems and organizations by creating new avenues and approaches for interacting with systems that otherwise pose barriers.
• Transforming the environment to sustain the change, creating family-centered, equitable, results-focused systems that work for all families.
• Holding ourselves and others accountable for what we say we are doing in community.