Before Covid, the Partners In Change Society (PICS) was developing an innovation space that would bring community not-for-profits together in a physical space, sharing resources and collaborating on innovations. The objective was to support cross-pollination across community, leading to sustainable change as community issues, such as poverty, the opioid crisis, housing, and equity continued to challenge community well-being. This is our long emergency. Now, PICS has shifted towards building community muscle to address our long emergency by building community capacity in collective impact and social innovation. This has been a quantum shift in our approach as, rather than sharing space, it will mean that community leaders will come together to build this strength through creating a successful model by learning and training, determining priorities and finally building  a system that will sustain the vision of a  community that is thriving because of collaborative strength