Additional Resources for Partnerships
Links by topic
Natural Resource Collaboration Resources
Partnership Resource Center Tools, Templates and Guides
Redlodge Clearinghouse Collaboration Site
Community-based Collaboratives Research Consortium
Carl Moore - The Community Store
toolkit with techniques to use for increasing communication, sample ground rules, in -depth facilitator script, action plan template
Ecosystem Management Initiative's collaboration publications
EPA : Community Based Environmental Programs
getting a partnership started, success factors, stumbling blocks, where to get help
EPA: RCRA Public Participation Manual
informal meetings with other stakeholders, attending other stakeholders' meetings and functions
EPA: Stakeholders Involvement and Public Participation
unique barriers, innovative approaches, and lessons learned in effective stakeholder involvement
EPA: Stakeholders Roles in Constructive Engagement - pdf document
factors making constructive engagement successful, challenges, costs and benefits, designing the process, lessons learned
Western Governors' Association: Watershed Partnerships
how to start, how to organize, incentives, obstacles, success, lessons learned
General Collaboration Resources
Building Community Collaboration and Consensus
why and how to build community collaboration, who to include, why and how to build consensus, how to keep it going
California Center for Public Dispute Resolution
five stages of collaborative decision making on public issues
Conflict Research Consortium, Conflict Resolution Information Source
collaboration problems and possible treatments, activities and information on specific techniques for promoting collaboration
Chandler Center for Community Leadership
forces behind, benefits and challenges of, and roles and responsibilities in community collaboration
North Central Regional Educational Laboratory: Establishing Collaboratives and Partnerships
some guidelines for effective collaboration/factors necessary for collaboration to work; worksheet format about assets available for collaboration
Together We Can
toolkit about collaborative decision making and public engagement
Funding Sources
Redlodge Clearinghouse funding source list
The Partnership Resource Center funding source list
Building Community Collaboration and Consensus
list of possible funding sources for collaborative efforts
EPA Community Grant Opportunities
EPA grants for community and environmental programs
National Rural Development Partnership
assistance for rural partnerships
Resources for Community Collaboration
grant making organization for natural resource collaborative projects, mainly in the west
Collaboration Training
University of Michigan's Ecosystem Management Initiative Mid-career Collaborative Resource Management courses
Redlodge Clearinghouse training list
The Partnership Resource Center training list
Natural Resource Mediation, Facilitation, and Negotiation Services
CDR Associates
The Community Store
CONCUR
services- facilitation and mediation services for environmental issues
Consensus Building Institute
Institute for Environmental Negotiation
services- mediation and consensus building
Meridian Institute
Redlodge Clearinghouse services list
RESOLVE
mediation and negotiation: building consensus, managing science and technical information, selecting a mediator, convening questions and reports, participation agreements, conducting effective agreements, ground rules
US Institute for Environmental Conflict Resolution
General Mediation, Facilitation, and Negotiation Services
Association for Conflict Resolution
ADR Resources
mediation: preparing, checklist, script for opening statement, pitfalls and obstacles in mediation
Mediate.com
mediation: building consensus, process/timing/costs of mediation, choosing a mediator, sample ground rules and agreement, and caucusing
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