Abstract
This article will discuss how the foundation facilitated the setting of a common agenda and the use of the Sustainable Development Goals to help build consensus among 251 active partners on how to measure progress toward the coalition’s shared goal. By aligning program design and evaluation with the goals and agreeing to key indicators, each coalition member understood which data needed to be collected and when to establish baselines and measure outcomes and impact. Annual assessments were shared with the coalition and the public. This approach, using the Sustainable Development Goals as a framework, helped build teamwork, trust, and presence, allowing cross-sector community partners to spend significantly less time aligning separate agendas and metrics.
