The Tamalpais Lands Collaborative Case Studies (2014-2017)
By Leigh Goldberg Public land agencies have collaborated for many decades, both informally and formally through inter-agency agreements, to share resources, equipment, staff, and information. Recently, we have seen an emergence of more deliberate partnerships with their own identities and priorities and a commitment to building durable relationships. Interest in partnerships is especially growing where […]
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
Amargosa Vole Recovery Team Partnership
Chris Otahal, BLM Wildlife Biologist Barstow Field Office California
Establishing a Climate Network
Lauren Miller, USFWS Social Scientist Region 8 Science Applications Nevada
Leveraging Partnerships to Close the Science-Usability Gap
Marina Tomer, USGS Research Coordinator South Central Climate Adaptation Science Center Oklahoma
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 […]
Leveraging Partnerships
Listen to this video as a podcast. Leveraging Partnerships is about building and supporting teamwork. Explore the defining characteristics of a well functioning team. Discover how the night sky illuminates these seven characteristics: purpose, participation, commitment, a results focus, candor, recognition and trust. Discussion Questions: Compare the seven characteristics of teamwork to your recent partnership […]
Accountability When Working with Partnerships
Listen to this video as a podcast. Explore the four elements of accountability: Effective Controls, Rules and Responsibilities, Time and Budget and Monitor and Evaluation. Learn how to translate these four elements into partnership actions focused on Communication, Teambuilding, Tracking and Troubleshooting and Learning and Sharing. Discussion Questions: What types of communication skills best serve […]
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 […]
