Partnerships
Forsyth Futures is a committed partner in several of Forsyth County’s major community initiatives and collaborative efforts built over the years.
These partnerships reflect our role as a backbone and technical partner, providing sustained data, research, evaluation, and communications support to the coalitions and movements working toward systems change in our community. Below are the ongoing partnerships we currently support.
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Our role in Partnerships
Data Research and Evaluation
Collective Impact Support
Operational & Strategy Support
Strategic Communications
Advisory and Oversight
Current Partnerships
The Asset Building Coalition of Forsyth County, North Carolina
The Asset Building Coalition builds awareness about asset poverty and its significant impact on individuals, families, and our community. They promote coordinated strategies for everyone to build asset wealth for a more resilient Forsyth County.
Forsyth Futures provides data and research support across three key areas: the benefits cliff work, livable wages research, and data dashboards. The project originated with ABC around 2010 and became operationally active in 2017. Forsyth Futures formalized its partnership support around 2019-2020, creating critical infrastructure for our community to better use data related to community programming and its impact on student outcomes.
Data Sharing Project (DSP)
The Data Sharing Project is a community initiative operating under Forsyth Futures in partnership with Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Schools and United Way of Forsyth County. DSP provides data access, evaluation, and continuous quality improvement support to community agencies and schools working to improve outcomes for students in Forsyth County.
Through a unique partnership with WS/FCS, DSP connects community programs to school district data — enabling more targeted, individualized student supports, strengthening program effectiveness, and documenting impact. DSP also works alongside partners to connect students and families to the right community-based supports at the right time — helping ensure no student falls through the cracks between school and the programs designed to serve them.
Over time, DSP’s work helps identify which strategies are most effective for students, and shares those findings across partner programs to align efforts and maximize community investment. DSP is also engaged with Forsyth Family Power and exploring broader research questions about community-wide service capacity and gaps, helping inform planning and strategy at a systems level.
Forsyth Family Power
Forsyth Family Power is the vital condition network under Thriving Together focused on lifelong learning, working to foster better alignment and coordination of cradle-to-career work happening across the community. Through community-driven priorities and data-informed approaches, FFP aims to transform systems and move children and youth on a path to economic mobility.
Forsyth Futures serves as the backbone organization for Forsyth Family Power, providing data research and evaluation, operational support, strategy support, and communications support.
Forsyth County Humane Housing Network
Humane Housing is a vital condition network under Thriving Together, connecting residents, organizations, and community leaders to address Forsyth County’s affordable housing deficit through community-informed planning and long-term systems change.
Forsyth Futures sits on the Advisory Committee and core staff team, providing data research and evaluation, operational support, strategy support, and communications support.
The Pre-K Priority
The Pre-K Priority is a coalition of community organizations and individuals dedicated to expanding access to affordable, high-quality Pre-K for all four-year-olds in Forsyth County. Through advocacy, education, and collaboration with civic leaders, they work to build a comprehensive Pre-K system that ensures every child has a strong foundation for lifelong learning.
Forsyth Futures provides data research and evaluation to the Pre-K Priority.
Thriving Together
Thriving Together is a community-driven movement focused on creating long-term systems change by aligning resources, strengthening collaborations, and centering community voices. The goal is to build a sustainable framework that fosters belonging, wellbeing, and justice, ensuring everyone in Winston-Salem and Forsyth County can thrive.
Forsyth Futures supports Thriving Together and the vital condition networks within it through overall strategy support, data research and evaluation, and communications support. Our backbone partners are Action4Equity, Forsyth Futures, and LoveOutLoud.
We Heal Together
We Heal Together is a federally funded SAMHSA project operating as a community-centered coalition for change in East Winston, centering healing, healthy relationships, and resource alignment. We Heal Together operates at two main levels: the Full Circle program serving high-risk youth and their families, and trauma resilience capacity building for service providers working with youth and families.
Forsyth Futures serves as the evaluation partner, assessing the impact of this important work in our community and sharing the results.