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 Tam’s work was central to the research, which identified a system of 11 interdependent, scalable impacts that are essential to starting, building and sustaining partnerships.
The Partnership Impact Evaluation Guide provides an additional tool for partnership practitioners on ways to evaluate and create impact metrics. It also provides guidance on how to measure impact indicators over time.
Learn more about the One Tam collaborative.
For more about the history of One Tam, see The Tamalpais Lands Collaborative Case Studies.
Commissioned by the Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy and funded by the S. D. Bechtel, Jr. Foundation, the One Tam Four-Year Partnership Study was designed to identify the complex elements of partnership impact, with the goal of sharing the findings broadly with others in the field in California and nationwide.
Co-Author: Leigh Goldberg
Assistant Director, Program Development and Scholar-in-Residence
Partnership and Community Collaboration Academy
