December 14, 2000
Collaboration: the Key to Effective Philanthropy
By RITA R. SEMELA decade ago, Oakland, Calif., had one of the highest infant-mortality rates in the nation. Eighteen of every 1,000 babies died in their first year -- almost twice the national average.
In response, the federal government and agencies in Alameda County pumped millions of dollars into an unusual collaboration of 40 government and nonprofit groups and oversaw their efforts to attack a broad range of factors that contributed to the death rate
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