With funding under the ENOUGH Initiative, the Collaboration Council convened nine Community Based Organizations (CBOs) working across Montgomery County for a capacity building training series from July to September 2025.
We worked with a diverse and highly skilled team of trainers to develop a cohort model. Participants received training on equitable partnership development and participatory action research. This was paired with 1:1 coaching and office hours support.
This training aimed to strengthen participants’ skills and capacity to initiate, lead, and engage in place-based, cross-sector partnerships that promote child well-being, support healthy and economically secure families, and foster safe, thriving neighborhoods.
Download Effective Collaboration & Equitable Partnerships, a practice guide that shares tools and strategies from this capacity building training.
Watch a short video featuring several trainers and participants to learn more about the purpose and impact of the capacity building training.
Thank you to our amazing trainers!
Patrilie Hernandez
Independent Consultant and Founder
Embody Lib, LLC
Lead Trainer, Equitable Partnership Development
Sandra Ovalle
Founder
Coyo Strategies
Trainer, Equitable Partnership Development
Clara Parker
Trainer, Participatory Action Research
Video production: Chris Tsou
The Governor’s Office for Children funded this project under award number LMBC-2025-0016.
Maryland’s ENOUGH Initiative, administered by the Governor’s Office for Children (GOC), focuses on communities that have been disproportionately impacted by decades of disinvestment and harmful public policies that often systematized and reinforced race-based discrimination, limited wealth creation, and blocked pathways to economic mobility. ENOUGH stands for Engaging Neighborhoods, Organizations, Unions, Governments, and Households.
The ENOUGH Initiative is a state-led, place-based strategy to create poverty fighting opportunities driven by communities’ lived experience and expertise, data and cross-sector partnerships. Key to delivering on this initiative are Local Management Boards (LMBs), designated in each local jurisdiction by the State of Maryland. The Collaboration Council is the LMB for Montgomery County.