Partnership Impact Evaluation Guide (2019)
By Leigh Goldberg and Amy Mickel, Ph.D. The Partnership Impact Model™ includes the 11 Partnership Impacts, Scaling Up Partnership Impact, the Partnership Impact Roadmap, and the 7 Steps of Partnership Impact Evaluation. The 11 Partnership Impacts is a framework that explicitly highlights the collection of impacts that landscape-scale stewardship partnerships should consider when it comes […]
Kūlana Noi‘i (Research Standards)
This guide offers a structure for building and sustaining long-term relationships between communities and researchers. “Getting dirty, physically being there, listening to voices, sitting and working alongside – it’s not always built into people’s schedules in the academic world. But you need to force it and sit and listen to understand the issues.” Hundreds of […]
Urban Wildlife Refuge Program Standards of Excellence (USFWS)
The future success of conservation lies ultimately in our ability to inspire Americans to connect with the outdoors and nature, and to become stewards of the environment. Americans are spending less time outdoors, and are becoming more ethnically and racially diverse. With more than 80% of Americans now living in urban areas, our challenge is […]
Generating, Scaling Up, and Sustaining Partnership Impact: One Tam’s First Four Years (2018)
By Leigh Goldberg and Amy Mickel, Ph.D. One Tam’s vision that we can do more for Mt. Tam together, working across boundaries, than we can alone was affirmed in the findings of a four-year (2014-17) independent study—Generating, Scaling Up, and Sustaining Partnership Impact: One Tam’s First Four Years—on the impact and value of partnerships. One […]
Engaging with Communities in Public Land Stewardship, Bureau of Land Management
A Toolkit for Building and Sustaining Effective BLM Partnerships with Friends Groups (February 2020) Purpose of This Toolkit: Due to the challenges of multiple-use management on public lands, the BLM benefits significantly from a partnership approach. This toolkit seeks to address and clarify partnership issues and needs, encourage partnerships with friends groups, and provide guidance, […]
21 Partnership Success Factors
Brian O’Neill’s 21 Partnership Success Factors summarize best practices developed from two decades at Golden Gate National Recreation Area. As the Superintendent of Golden Gate National Recreation Area, Brian O’Neill (1941-2009) and his staff earned a reputation as a model partnership park where partnerships are a way of approaching how best to accomplish the park’s […]
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 […]
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 […]
USDA Forest Service Handover Memo
The Forest Service’s handover memo process enables an outgoing agency leader to share information with their replacement. The challenge of rotating Forest Service line officers is a well-known barrier to community and forest‐level collaboration. It takes time to develop good relationships, and when a key agency contact is transferred, a collaborative effort can stall out […]
Conservation social science: Understanding and integrating human dimensions to improve conservation
It has long been claimed that a better understanding of human or social dimensions of environmental issues will improve conservation. The social sciences are one important means through which researchers and practitioners can attain that better understanding. Yet, a lack of awareness of the scope and uncertainty about the purpose of the conservation social sciences […]
