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Collaborating for Social Impact: Lessons from Bexar County
How trust, transparency and time among 18+ organizations yielded results for the San Antonio-area.
Collaborating for Social Impact: Lessons from Bexar County
“Everything that’s done collaboratively, in the end, is worthwhile—is worth doing,” Pilar Oates says. “Just by nature of who we are, everything we do is deliberate. It can be painful, but we do keep trudging along until we get there.” For more than twenty years, the...
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Credit: Bexar County Community Health Collaborative
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Executive Office Dr. Octavio N. Martinez, Jr., Executive Director A native Texan and licensed psychiatrist, Dr. Martinez is the fifth Executive Director to lead the foundation since its creation in 1940. He oversees the vision, mission, goals, strategic planning and...
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Executive Office Dr. Octavio N. Martinez, Jr., Executive Director A native Texan and licensed psychiatrist, Dr. Martinez is the fifth Executive Director to lead the foundation since its creation in 1940. He oversees the vision, mission, goals, strategic planning and...
Staff
Executive Office Dr. Octavio N. Martinez, Jr., Executive Director A native Texan and licensed psychiatrist, Dr. Martinez is the fifth Executive Director to lead the foundation since its creation in 1940. He oversees the vision, mission, goals, strategic planning and...