Building Organizational Collaborations


Collaboration is a process of participation through which people, groups and organizations work together to achieve desired results. Starting or sustaining a collaborative journey is exciting, sometimes stressful, and even new for many. The information presented here utilizes the knowledge and expertise of specialists from the National Network for Collaboration to provide a guide to begin, strengthen and sustain the collaborative journey, for the building and sustaining of positive change.

	Network Members
	More About the National Network for Collaboration
	To contact the Collaboration Network, send e-mail to: nncoinfo@extension.umn.edu or call 614-292-2533.

On-line Network and CES Collaboration and Change Resources:

Collaboration Framework ... Addressing Community Capacity, (18 pages/455 Kb) designed to help individuals and practitioners who are starting or need help strengthening a collaboration to achieve clearly defined outcomes.

Community-Based Collaboration: Community Wellness Multiplied, a resource which explores and explains the process by which citizens, agencies, organizations and businesses make formal sustained commitments to collaborate to accomplish a shared vision or purpose.

Building Coalitions: a series of fact sheets on coalition formation and maintenance

Building Communities of Support for Families in Poverty

Building & Maintaining Community Coalitions on Behalf of CYF, a report from the Community Coalitions in Action project, Institute for Children, Youth, and Families Michigan State University.

Transitions: Implementing Change Decisions, abstract



Other On-line Resources:

Communications as Engagement, A Communications Strategy for Revitalization: The Millennium Report to the Rockefeller Foundation

Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP)

	Juvenile Justice Resources
	SafeFutures: Partnerships To Reduce Youth Violence and Delinquency: a project which assists communities with collaborative efforts to reduce youth violence and delinquency.
	Youth Violence: A Community-Based Response--One City's Success Story: describes the efforts undertaken by Boston, Massachusetts to curb youth vio lence successfully.

"How To Facilitate Groups" Handbook is intended to help facilitators: understand the active facilitation method; strengthen facilitation skills; understand how to design and prepare for work sessions; and understand how to evaluate work sessions.

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Last updated: 12.08.97
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