DRC’s collaborative work strengthens fundraising, according to Ms. Natter. “We have found that the time spent in reaching out to other social change organizations and deepening our relationships with those we have already worked with pays off in terms of increasing our programmatic impact, and we hope that will help us with foundation and non-foundation fundraising.” As an example, Ms. Natter explains, “In large part, we have more strength in technical assistance vs. organizing. We help de-mystify the technical aspects of issues identified by the members of organizing groups so those members can more easily affect policy. Groups we were collaborating with helped open the door to their funders, so collaboration has been essential to resource development for DRC. We wouldn’t exist without collaboration.”