At our first All Staff Working Day, New Futures staff drew their own relationship maps, then laid them side by side. Here's what we learned about building community on purpose.

Lydia's college said she couldn't graduate early. So she read the policies herself, wrote to the dean, and answered her questions with a plan — the same analyst's instinct that now has her improving service at WMATA. She graduated a semester early and spent that time on the internship that launched her career. "I'd rather challenge myself to learn something new than say 'I can't do it.'"