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The collaborative, formed at the invitation of the David and Lucile Packard Foundation (Packard Foundation) and the J. B. and M. K. Pritzker Family Foundation (Pritzker Family Foundation), had adopted a straightforward goal: identify a few high-potential ideas to improve kindergarten readiness for all children and find collaborative ways to advance them. Noting the lack of progress, the group’s principal convener, Meera Mani, director of the Children, Families, and Communities Program at the Packard Foundation, bluntly asked the group,“Should we stop meeting?”  \nPosing this question helped prompt the collaborative to alter course—and pick up speed.1 Eighteen months later, two teams within the group had pooled $26 million to pursue co-investments in two areas: strengthening the early childhood workforce of teachers and other professional care givers, and changing the standard of care in pediatric wellchild visits. The two teams have invested much more in these strategies than any of the individual members would have on their own. And the 12-member group, including some who have not invested in either the workforce or pediatric initiatives, continues to work to identify additional areas for collaboration.  \nIt’s still too soon to discern results from the group’s investments. These are long-term initiatives, and meaningfully influencing kindergarten readiness and other early childhood outcomes takes time. But before memories of what happened over the first three-and-ahalf years of this work fade, we decided to take stock and ask several questions. How did these funders come to agreement on two early childhood investments? What barriers did they overcome along the way? And what might other funders interested in philanthropic collaboration—regardless of their fields—learn from the experience of the early childhood collaborative?  \nWhat follows is not a how-to guide for creating a funder collaborative. A variety of resources already cover this subject (see “More on Funder Collaboratives”) . Rather, it is an account of how one collaborative set a fixed goal and continuously evolved its methods  \n1 Current members of the collaborative, which has not adopted a formal name, include: Ballmer Group, Bezos Family Foundation, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Blue Meridian Partners, Buffett Early Childhood Fund, David and Lucile Packard Foundation, Einhorn Family Charitable Trust, Foundation for Child Development, George Kaiser Family Foundation, Heising-Simons Foundation, Irving Harris Foundation, J. B. and M. K. Pritzker Family Foundation, Stranahan Foundation, W. K. Kellogg Foundation, and two anonymous donors.  \nto achieve it. In sharing the choices these funders made and the turning points they faced, we hope this case study helps other funders chart their own course to successful collaboration.  \nSetting the goal and gathering the right people  \n‘‘I had no preconceived notions of success—that if we did it one particular way, we could make it work. The only nonnegotiable for me was having an impact on quality care for kids at scale. I didn’t want to be part of another set of incremental shifts.’’  \nMEERA MANI, DIRECTOR, CHILDREN, FAMILIES, AND COMMUNITIES PROGRAM, DAVID AND LUCILE PACKARD FOUNDATION  \nIn July 2014, six early-childhood funders gathered at the invitation of the Packard Foundation and Pritzker Family Foundation for an all-day meeting at the Packard Foundation offices in Los Altos, California. 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