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ARTICLE | Can This Collaboration Be Saved?

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Collaboration is a large and growing part of the landscape for community development work. Often it makes sense and leads to good results. Yet the timing is not always right, nor the ingredients in place for a successful collaborative effort. Although there’s no foolproof way to predict the outcome of any undertaking that involves people and organizations working together, a few basic checkpoints can be quite revealing. And if you’re already involved in a collaborative effort, these same checkpoints can help your group recognize strengths and work on weaknesses. This paper provides 20 factors that can make or break any group effort.
Paul Mattessich

By Paul Mattessich

Paul Mattessich is executive director of the Wilder Research Center in Saint Paul, MN, and author of Collaboration: What Makes It Work (2002), Community-Building: What Makes It Work (1997), and The Manager’s Guide to Program Evaluation (2003). A free online version of the Wilder Collaboration Questionnaire can be found at www.wilder.org/research.

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