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The Aspen Institute Policy Programs

http://www.aspeninstitute.org
From the Aspen Institute. The Aspen Institute is a global forum for leveraging the power of leaders to improve the human condition. Through its seminar and policy programs, the Institute fosters enlightened, morally responsible leadership and convenes leaders and policy makers to address the foremost challenges of the new century.

Comprehensive Community Initiatives: Redefining Community Development, Part II Collaborating for Change
http://www.nhi.org/online/issues/97/ccis.html
By Winton Pitcoff
Shelterforce Online January/February 1998
Shelterforce is the nation's oldest continually published housing and community development magazine. Shelterforce is published by the National Housing Institute, an independent nonprofit organization that examines the issues causing the crisis in housing and community in America. These issues include poverty and racism, disinvestment and lack of employment, safety, education, and breakdown of the social fabric. NHI examines how these and other factors affect people as they try to build safe and viable neighborhoods. This article is the second part of a two part series on Comprehensive Community Initiatives.

Examining and Evaluating Structures of Collaboration and Governance 2001
http://www.mdrc.org/Reports2001/JP-BuildingPartnerships/ExSum-JP-BuildingPartnerships.pdf
By Linda Y. Kato and James A Riccio
Building New Partnerships for Employment: Collaboration Among Agencies and Public Housing Residents in the Jobs-Plus Demonstration. In this report, Kato and Riccio examine the collaborative effort the Jobs-Plus Community Revitalization Initiative for Public Housing Families (or Jobs-Plus). It demonstrates how seven cities have attempted to build inclusive and productive partnerships to design, fund, and operate an employment initiative for residents of selected public housing developments. The authors relate the success, challenges, and recommendations for continued success of the Jobs-Plus Program.

Using Empowerment Theory in Collaborative Partnerships for Community Health and Development.
http://0-web1.infotrac.galegroup.com.unistar.uni.edu/itw/infomark/474/53/34772921w1/purl=rc1_EAIM_0_A18498730&dyn=8!xrn_1_0_A18498730?sw_aep=uni_roditeai By Stephen B. Fawcett, Adrienne Pane-Andrews, Vincent T. Francisco, Jerry A. Schultz, Kimber P Richter, Rhonda K. Lewis, Ella L. Williams, Kari J. Harris, Jannette Y. Berkley, Jacqueline L. Fisher, and Christine M. Lopez
Plenum Publishing Company 1995
This article examines frameworks that can improve collaborative partnerships. First, it examines an interactive model of community empowerment that describes reciprocal influences between personal or group factors and environmental factors in an empowerment process. Next, it describes a repetitive framework for the process of empowerment in community partnerships that includes collaborative planning. Finally, the authors examine collaborative partnershipsê challenges and opportunities.

Chaordic Commons
http://www.chaordic.org/
This website helps to map out the organizational concept within chaordic structures. The organizational concept helps to define how participants in the organizational system are related. It specifies the legal nature of the organization, depicts potential functional relationships among participants, and describes governance processes, including the initial decision-making bodies.

Collaboration and Leadership in Juvenile Detention Reform
http://www.aecf.org/publications/data/11_promoting.pdf
By Kathleen Feely
Annie E. Casey Foundation
Feely examines collaborative structures of three juvenile reform initiatives.

Neighborhood Governance in the Mental Health Initiative for Urban Children.
http://www.aecf.org/publications/data/mhigov.pdf
The Department of Child and Family Studies The Louis de la Parte Florida Mental Health Institute University of South Florida. May 2001.
The Department of Child and Family Studies examined inner city neighborhood collaboration with a Casey Foundation initiative aimed at mental health for urban children. The structure of these neighborhood governance boards is helpful to the development of collaborative structure for Opportunity Works.

Motivation and Reward in Nonprofit Interorganizational Collaboration in Low-income Neighborhoods
http://0-web2.infotrac.galegroup.com.unistar.uni.edu/itw/infomark/420/504/35515831w2/purl=rc1_EAIM_0_A53489594&dyn=11!xrn_6_0_A53489594?sw_aep=uni_roditeaiBy Elizabeth A. Mulroy and Sharon Shay
Administration in Social Work, Fall 1998 v22 i4 p (1) The authors report finding from a qualitative study of motivation and reward among nonprofit managers who collaborated to create a community-based service network. Findings suggest it was the achievement of agency expectations in the short-term, the acquisition of professional expertise, and management and leadership from a Project Director and staff, that together helped sustain participation.

Collaboration: A Study of a Childrenês Initiative

http://0web2.infotrac.galegroup.com.unistar.uni.edu/itw/infomark/420/504/35515831w2/purl=rc1_EAIM_0_A20436234&dyn=11!xrn_12_0_A20436234?sw_aep=uni_roditeaiBy Anita S. Harbert, Daniel Finnegan, and Nancy Tyler
Administration in Social Work, Summer-Fall 1997 v21 n3-4 p83 (25)
The findings in this article, based on the initial two years of collaborative effort of social services, suggested the membership of the group and the process and structure governing the groupês operations impacted the process and outcomes of the collaboration.

Underorganized interorganizational domains: the case of refugee systems http://0-web2.infotrac.galegroup.com.unistar.uni.edu/itw/infomark/420/504/35515831w2/purl=rc1_EAIM_0_A16394928&dyn=6!xrn_3_0_A16394928?sw_aep=uni_roditeai
By Cynthia Hardy
Journal of Applied Behavioral Science, Sept 1994 v 30 n3 p278 (19)
This article raises the issue: domains that seem to be relatively organized and that display a higher degree of collaboration may have excluded key stakeholders who threaten existing domain definitions; whereas domains that display high levels of conflict and disorganization may do so precisely because all the relevant stakeholders have secured equal access to the domain are able to influence its definition.

Collaboration in Action: A Survey of Community Collaboratives
http://www.scottlondon.com/reports/ppcc-survey.html

By Scott London

This paper surveys a number of examples of these types of collaboratives from across the country, culled from a rather small but growing body of literature and resource material on the subject, as well as the experience and testimony of several practitioners in the field. The paper is intended as a companion to "Community and Collaboration" which explores the nature of collaboration -- its dynamics, prerequisites, and potential obstacles -- as well as the leading works on the subject. Collaboration and Community reviews some of the principal sources of literature on research of collaboration.

Moving from Collaborative Processes to Collaborative Communities
http://www.communitytools.net/cbi/collaborativecommunities.htm
By William R. Potapchuk
Community Building Institute October 1999 The Community Building Institute (CBI) was founded by William Potapchuk to help communities improve the way they conduct public business to be more inclusive, more collaborative, and more effective. CBI believes that efforts to build vibrant, sustainable, and healthy communities must involve citizens and a wide array of public and private institutions to achieve real change. CBI works directly with communities as well as with federal and state agencies and national foundations with efforts that serve multiple communities. .

Does Regionalism Beget Regionalism? The Relationship between Norms and Regional Partnerships for Economic Development
http://0-web2.infotrac.galegroup.com.unistar.uni.edu/itw/infomark/420/504/35515831w2/purl=rc1_EAIM_0_A90119621&dyn=9!xrn_5_0_A90119621?sw_aep=uni_roditeai By Julie Cencula Olberding
This article develops a theory that asserts the key determinants of the formation of these regional partnerships for economic development are cooperative norms - or a tradition of regional cooperation - and need. The theory also posits that norms influence regional partnerships' organizational structure and processes.

Collaborative Framework Model

http://crs.uvm.edu/nnco/collab/framework.html#framework

The Collaboration Framework is designed to help individuals and practitioners who are either starting collaborations, or need help in strengthening an existing collaboration. Specifically, the Framework assists people, groups and organizations to achieve clearly defined outcomes.