Collaboration Toolkit
- Considering a Collaborative Effort
- Forming a New Collaborative
- Consider Steps to Get Started
- Identify Leaders and Facilitators
- Identify Options for Structuring Your Collaborative
- Bring Collaborative Members to the Table
- Identify Common Ground Among Your Partners
- Define Your Intentions with Key Materials
- Engage Members and Drive Action with Communication Tools
- Set Specific Goals and Propose Initial Protection Activities
- Plan Effective Meetings
- Develop Effective Meeting Agendas
- Find Sample Meeting Materials
- Find Funding Ideas
- Advancing a Developing Collaborative
- Engage Partners and Drive Action
- Define Priority Outcomes and Set Annual Goals
- Create Concrete Actions and Projects
- Example 1: Agriculture Best Management Practices (BMPs) pilot and additional resources
- Example 2: Risk management and emergency spill response pilot
- Example 3: Land use and conservation pilot and additional resources
- Example 4: Using GIS to plan for source water protection pilot and additional resources
- Example 5: Climate change adaptation pilot
- Pursue Common Ground with Partners
- Improve Communication Among Collaborative Members
- Leverage Funding Opportunities
- Engage Stakeholders
- Maintaining a Collaborative
- Map
Are You Advancing a Collaborative Effort?
This section can help you:
Find detailed tips about how to assess your members’ engagement and the effectiveness of your collaboration. Read More »
Find tips to determine when and how to revisit goals and priorities. Get ideas for how to incorporate this topic into your next member meeting. Read More »
Ready to start implementing source water protection actions? Launching pilot projects can help you make early progress toward your goals. Browse examples of concrete protection activities. Read More »
As your collaborative progresses, you’ll experience new challenges. Taking time to focus on commonalities can improve your internal and external communications. Read More »
Improving communication can ensure your members stay engaged and help maintain momentum. Click here to “troubleshoot” some common communication challenges. Read More »
At this stage of collaboration, many new financial options may be available to you. For instance, you may be ready to leverage grants along with in-kind resources of your own. Your group may also devise ways of creating your own revenue streams. Read More »
Find tips on how to reach stakeholders, including those with opposing views. Read More »
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