My son, who just finished his kindergarten year, participated in our community Tee Ball league this spring. Tee ball: a first introduction to America’s favorite pastime; a chance to learn the basics of the game, practice wielding a bat with your right hand or maybe your left, catch ground balls, pick dandelions.

If developmental relationships are truly the “oxygen of human development,” then the next charge is understanding how organizations become relationally rich by design and not by chance. A response to Dr. Peter Scales’ final essay, using evaluation to understand and strengthen the organizational conditions that make developmental relationships possible.

This month marks one year since I launched KBD Collaborative alongside my partners and what a year it has been.