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 mission and build a community of stewardship. Superintendent O’Neill and his staff were always honing their approach by being on the lookout for and gathering innovative partnership ideas and best practices from other practitioners around the nation and in other countries. The following 21 Partnership Success Factors reflect two decades at Golden Gate National Recreation Area as a learning laboratory and a synthesis of best practices from many sources.
