Build Partnerships
Because partnerships and collaboration are a common key factor of success for any civic project, we have curated resources that offer in-depth guidance on creating, cultivating, and sustaining partnerships to enhance collaboration, resource-sharing, and community engagement.
What’s the point of partnerships?
Partnership are key to any civic project, but why? This unit includes resources that provide a basis for why partnership and collaboration are not only useful, but necessary, to produce civic projects that are both meaningful and useful to communities.
Selected Resources
- Returning to Our Roots: The Engaged Institution (February 1999) is a report that is part of a series by the Kellogg Commission on the Future of State and Land-Grant Universities. This commission, which operated from January 1996 to March 2000, aimed to raise awareness about the need for higher education reform among public universities. The report specifically focuses on university engagement.
How do you start a Ciciv X project anyway?
Explore principles of partnership, partnership case studies, and networks that can help you build new Civic X partnerships.
Selected Resources
- 18F Partnership Principles is a guide to help you understand how your agency team and 18F can work together successfully. You’ll learn what to expect and how our two teams will form a fed-to-fed partnership that may be different from work you’ve done with private vendors.
- Civic Switchboard – for academic and public libraries interested in civic data is an Institute of Museum and Library Services supported effort that aims to develop the capacity of academic and public libraries in civic data ecosystems.
When starting a Civic X project, who is at the table?
These resources discuss and demonstrate the interplay between power, different kinds of expertise, and what equity looks like in implementation.
Selected Resources
- Community Voice Is Expertise emphasizes the importance of community engagement in research, policy analysis, and federal agency work to advance equity and inclusion.
What does ‘building trust’ look like? How can we build trust with institutions? How can institutions build trust with us? How can we build trust across institutions?
Building trust involves consistent actions that demonstrate reliability, integrity, and transparency. It includes open communication, delivering on promises, and showing respect and understanding for partners’ perspectives and needs. These resources describe and demonstrate what the act of building civic trusts means and looks like.
Selected Resources
- Slow Ideas explores why some innovations spread rapidly while others take much longer to gain acceptance.