Capacity Building for Collaboration Case Study (2018)
A Case Study on Building and Sustaining Landscape-Scale Stewardship Networks in the 21st Century, by Leigh Goldberg Consulting With the growing complexity and scale of environmental, social, and economic challenges facing the long-term stewardship of working and conserved public and private lands in the United States, place-based collaborative networks are very likely the future vehicle […]
Mature and Old-Growth Forests: Partnerships for Success
Shanna Kleinsmith, USDA FS Writer-Editor National Forest System, Policy Office Idaho
Making the Connections: Aligning Internally to Partner Externally
Andrea Carson, USACE Small Programs Planner Regional Environmental Justice Coordinator CPCX Division Liaison and Regional Silver Jackets Coordinator Great Lakes & Ohio Division Pennsylvania
Amargosa Vole Recovery Team Partnership
Chris Otahal, BLM Wildlife Biologist Barstow Field Office California
Croatan Fireshed Partnership
John Langdon, USDA FS Partnership Coordinator Uwharrie & Croatan National Forests North Carolina
Coaching People Through the Change Curve
The Change Curve is a popular and powerful model used to understand the stages of personal transition and organisational change. It helps you predict how people will react to change, so that you can help them make their own personal transitions, and make sure that they have the help and support they need. Personality underpins […]
Leveraging Partnerships to Close the Science-Usability Gap
Marina Tomer, USGS Research Coordinator South Central Climate Adaptation Science Center Oklahoma
Collaborating Consciously: the Four Cornerstones
Author: Amy E. Mickel, PhD As we continue to face complex and difficult-to-solve problems such as climate change, social injustice, and a global pandemic, the need for collaboration is more pressing than ever. Multi-stakeholder partnerships (MSPs) are touted as promising mechanisms to tackle these challenges; however, despite their promise, not all partnerships are successful in […]
Four Network Principles for Collaboration Success
Despite high hopes, hard work, and significant investment, the social sector has experienced countless partnerships that have failed to live up to expectations. How are some collaborations able to achieve spectacular results while others fail spectacularly? This article identifies a set of four counterintuitive principles that are critical to collaboration success and offers insights for […]
Governing by Network: The New Shape of the Public Sector
By Stephen Goldsmith and William D. Eggers. Washington, D.C. Brookings Institution Press, 2004. A fundamental, but mostly hidden, transformation is happening in the way public services are being delivered, and in the way local and national governments fulfill their policy goals. Government executives are redefining their core responsibilities away from managing workers and providing services […]
