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Beth Rosenthal, MS, Principal, Collaboration and Change, has been a consultant to organizations, collaborations and government agencies since 1985. She created models for effective diverse collaboration, which strengthen partnerships, coalitions and service networks across the United States. Her community planning and organizing efforts in NYC neighborhoods resulted in multi-agency revitalization projects and community-wide funding for new initiatives. Her research has shaped policies and programs for immigrants, HIV/AIDS services, child welfare, homeless families, and community development. As a Consultant, Ms. Rosenthal has started, restructured, and enhanced non-profit organizations addressing different issues, and helped them to produce programs, funding and large events. Her unique workshops, leadership development, management curricula and individual coaching, have strengthened the capacity of non-profit professionals, boards and grassroots leaders.
Previously, Ms. Rosenthal was a community and labor organizer and the charter Executive Director of The Washington Heights-Inwood Coalition, a multi-issue organization serving a largely low-income, Dominican community of 200,000. At the Coalition, she created 28 programs for housing and community work, mediation, youth leadership, and elder empowerment, through participatory management and coalition-building approaches. She also co-founded applied research projects on progressive social services, coalitions, women, and consulting. She has published articles, workbooks and studies. (See Publications).
Ms. Rosenthal is on the faculty of New York University’s Wagner School of Public Service, where she created courses on Community Organizing and Advocacy for Public and Non-Profit Organizations. She has also taught at CUNY’s York College and Hostos Community College. She holds a bachelors’ degree from Barnard College, a masters’ degree in social work from Columbia University, and was awarded a Revson Fellowship for the Future of New York City.
Partners and Collaborations
Collaboration and Change involves a network of talented researchers, trainers and consultants to extend our scope. Partners are drawn from:
- Education Center for Community Organizing, Hunter College Graduate School of Social Work http://www.hunter.cuny.edu/socwork/ecco/
- Strategic Community Research
- Research Center for Leadership and Action, NYU Wagner School
- Institute for Education and Social Policy, NYU Steinhardt School of Education www.nyu.edu/iesp
- Leadership Transformation Group
- David Rubel and Associates
- Revson Fellows Program for the Future of NYC
- NY Technical Assistance Providers Group
- Alliance for Nonprofit Management
