How To / Toolkits

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Developed by the William Caspar Graustein Memorial Fund, this guide makes the case for collaboration by reviewing some of what is known about improving the well being of young children. It offers a framework for collaboration at the community level to expand early education and care for children in Connecticut, upgrade its quality, build stronger connections between early care and elementary education and improve students’ social, emotional and academic performance. This guide also provides questions to track and reflect on the process, implementation and results of collaboration. The guide also provides some questions to track and reflect on the process, implementation and results of collaboration and lists tools, websites and other guides on the topic.
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Written by Paul Mattessich, Executive Director of the Wilder Research Center, this article looks at the factors that impact the success of the a collaboration and how to overcome obstacles to successful collaboration.

Adapted from "How to Build a Community Collaboration," which can be found on the Community Collaboration website (address listed below), this document lists collaboration principles and describes what those principles look like in practice. Principles covered include developing mission and vision statements, setting goals and objectives, leadership, coordination and organization, building relationships, communication and others.

The Community Collaboration website can be found at http://www.communitycollaboration.net

How to Build a Community Collaboration can be found at http://www.communitycollaboration.net/id22.htm
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Adapted from How to Build a Community Collaboration, which can be found on the Community Collaboration website, this document lists collaboration principles and describes what those principles look like in practice. Principles covered include developing mission and vision statements, setting goals and objectives, leadership, coordination and organization, building relationships, communication and many others.

This How-To Guide is designed for school officials and business leaders who are interested in engaging in school-business partnerships. Downloadable worksheets that can be printed out separately are provided. Worksheets include: Matching Needs and Potential Resources, Developing Goals and Objectives, and a Self-Assessment Tool for Partnership Improvement.

This brief, developed by the Iowa State University Extension looks at the causes of turf battles in coalitions and how to resolve them.

Written by S. A. Stephens and Sally H. Leiderman for the Center for Assessment and Policy Development, this report looks at the lessons learned from the Kellogg Foundation initiative to promote the health, positive development and well-being of children ages birth to three in communities in the Midwest Great Lakes Region. The areas covered include designing an initiative in collaboration with communities, paying attention to race as a factor affecting children’s outcomes, talking about race and racism within multi-racial groups, building sustained community dialog processes and incorporating parent voices.
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Developed by the Wilder Foundation, this quick online survey is based on research on collaboration and was designed as a tool for assessing the factors that influence the success of the collaboration. 20 factors are measured and summary scores for each of the factors are provided upon completion of the inventory. This survey can be used to better understand your group’s strengths and challenges.