Table 2.

Above and Below Average Coalitions by Presence of Context Themes.

Themes	Coalition Classifications by Objective Achievement Status
	Above-Average Overall Achievement		Below-Average Overall Achievement
	Above-Average Structural Achievement (n = 3)	Below-Average Structural Achievement (n = 4)	Above-Average Structural Achievement (n = 3)	Below-Average Structural Achievement (n = 2)
Demographics and economics
To incentivize membership and address gaps due to funding losses, coalitions created to address members’ organizational needs	X		X	X
History
Members exhibited preference for preventive approaches that they believed worked in the past		X		X
A history of work within the HIV/AIDS prevention and service field was a barrier to the development of structurally focused objectives		X	X	X
Collaboration
Staff incited members to work toward easily attainable SCOs where there was a history of mistrust among member or skepticism of coalitions			X
Coalitions partnered with local coalitions to address other social issues related to HIV/AIDS	X	X	X
Norms/beliefs
Low awareness of prevention needs among heterosexual youth dictated focus on informational SCOs		X
Religious norms dictated a focus on faith-based communities			X	X
Coalition members and staff valued using evidence-based approaches and wanted to be a model C2P coalition			X
Coalitions sought to align SCOs with other local prevention priorities	X		X
Politics
Conservative local political agenda dissuaded policy-focused SCOs			X	X
HIV/AIDs and/or LGBT political support in local government dictated policy-focused SCOs	X	X
Coalitions made policies relevant to other groups relevant to target population, ensured policy implementation, or addressed unintended consequences of policies	X		X

Note. Themes were evident in all sites for the categories under which an “X” appears. SCO = structural change objective; C2P = Connect to Protect project; LGBT = lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender.