Sustainable participation: The collaboration has a plan for sustaining membership and resources. This involves membership guidelines about how to become a member, the expectations for the involvement and contribution of members, how members are replaced should they want to leave, and how new members are recruited if necessary.
Communication: The collaboration has open and clear communication. There is an established process for communication in and between meetings.
Research and data collection: The collaboration has conducted a proper assessment of local needs and has obtained information to establish its goals.
Political climate: The history and political environment surrounding discussions and decision-making in the collaboration is positive and supports cocreation of new and innovative solutions.
Policies, laws, and regulations: The collaboration has managed to change policies, laws, and/or regulations to allow the collaboration to function effectively.
Resources: The collaboration has access to needed resources. Resources refer to four types of capital: Environmental, in-kind, financial, and human.
Catalysts: There is a clear idea about the problems that call for collaboration and the mutual dependence between the actors that prompts them to engage in resource exchange.
Track record for collaboration: The community has a history of working cooperatively to solve pressing problems, and there are positive experiences to draw upon.
Connectedness: Members of this collaboration are well-connected and have established informal and formal networks at all levels that allow experiences, ideas, and resources to flow freely.
Leadership: One or more leaders facilitate and support team building and capitalize upon diversity and individual, group, and organizational strengths.
Community development: The local community has been mobilized to address important issues. There is a communication system and formal information channels that permit the joint exploration of issues, goals, and objectives.
Understanding community: The collaboration understands the community, including its people, cultures, values, and habits.
Sustainable participation: The collaboration has a plan for sustaining membership and resources. This involves membership guidelines about how to become a member, the expectations for the involvement and contribution of members, how members are replaced should they want to leave, and how new members are recruited if necessary.
Communication: The collaboration has open and clear communication. There is an established process for communication in and between meetings.
Research and data collection: The collaboration has conducted a proper assessment of local needs and has obtained information to establish its goals.
Political climate: The history and political environment surrounding discussions and decision-making in the collaboration is positive and supports cocreation of new and innovative solutions.
Policies, laws, and regulations: The collaboration has managed to change policies, laws, and/or regulations to allow the collaboration to function effectively.
Resources: The collaboration has access to needed resources. Resources refer to four types of capital: Environmental, in-kind, financial, and human.
Catalysts: There is a clear idea about the problems that call for collaboration and the mutual dependence between the actors that prompts them to engage in resource exchange.
Track record for collaboration: The community has a history of working cooperatively to solve pressing problems, and there are positive experiences to draw upon.
Connectedness: Members of this collaboration are well-connected and have established informal and formal networks at all levels that allow experiences, ideas, and resources to flow freely.
Leadership: One or more leaders facilitate and support team building and capitalize upon diversity and individual, group, and organizational strengths.
Community development: The local community has been mobilized to address important issues. There is a communication system and formal information channels that permit the joint exploration of issues, goals, and objectives.
Understanding community: The collaboration understands the community, including its people, cultures, values, and habits.