Collaboration Links

Coming Together: Building Community, Community Collaboration and Consensus - The Building Community Collaboration and Consensus web site contains extensive information on Collaboration and Public Participation with an emphasis on Youth Participation.

Winer, Michael and Ray, Karen. Collaboration Handbook: Creating, Sustaining, and Enjoying the Journey. St. Paul: Amherst Wilder - This is a practical guide to starting, running, and maintaining effective collaborations. It covers how to know whether collaboration is the best way to accomplish your goals, how to select the best structure for your collaboration, finding and attracting the right people, building trust among diverse groups, avoiding common pitfalls, creating accountability standards, and keeping people involved, enthusiastic, and motivated.

Straus, David. How to Make Collaboration Work: Powerful Ways to Build Consensus, Solve Problems, and Make Decisions. Berrett-Ko - This book introduces five principles of collaboration that can be used by lawyers, consultants, accountants, and managers to manage conflict and build effective teams. How to Make Collaboration Work shows how collaboration can become a joy rather than a chore—a kind of chemical reaction that releases far more energy than it consumes.

Chrislip, David. The Collaborative Leadership Fieldbook. San Francisco: Jossey Bass, 2002. - “The collaborative Leadership Fieldbook offers nonprofit practitioners, community leaders, and public officials a practical, hand-on resource. It presents the tools needed for applying the lessons learned, powerful approaches that get results, and guidance for solving complex community problems.” (quoted from back cover of book.)

Austin, James, E. The Collaboration Challenge San Francisco: Jossey Bass, 2000. - “In this timely and insightful book, James E. Austin demonstrates how to establish and manage strategic alliances that are effective and mutually beneficial. The author provides a practical framework for understanding how traditional philanthropic relationships can be transformed into powerful strategic alliances. Insights and lessons are drawn from the experiences of over fifteen collaborations, including Timberland and City Year, Starbucks and CARE; Georgia Pacific and The Nature Conservancy; MCI Worldcom and The National Geographic Society; Reebok and Amnesty International; and Hewlett-Packard and the National Science Resources Center.” (quoted from front flap of book)