Resources for Coalition Leaders
This link will take you to an annotated list of articles and websites about coalition building, collaborative leadership. In addition, you will find resources to help improve your group facilitation and public speaking skills.
Collaborative leadership
- Seven secrets of successful collaborative leaders : Collaborative Leadership: Developing Effective Partnerships for Communities and Schools (Rubin, Hank. Corwin Press, 2009)
- Transformational leadership
- Working Together for Healthier Communities : A Framework for Collaboration Among Community Partnerships, Support Organizations, and Funders. (Community Toolbox)
Effective collaboration
- Asset-Based Community Development
- Balancing the tensions in coalitions (Institute for Sustainable Communities. Accessed 9/2010)
- Coalitions Work (Frances Butterfoss and Associates consulting group)
- Coalitions Work : A consulting group, lists publications helpful in developing effective collaborations
- Collaboration: What Makes It Work, 2nd Ed (Mattessich PW, Murray-Close M, Monsey B. Fieldstone Alliance, 2001)
- Collaborative leadership in times of change (Royal Society of the Arts)
- Collaborative Leadership Learning Modules: A Comprehensive Series
- Creating High-Impact Nonprofits (Grant HM, Crutchfield L. Stanford Social Innovation Review. Fall 2007)
- Diagnosing the Health of Your Coalition : A comprehensive coalition assessment checklist (Kaye, G. Community Tool Box. December 2005)
- National Public Health Leadership Development Network
- Pew Partnership for Civic Change
- Platforms for Collaboration (Nambisan S. Stanford Social Innovation Review. Summer 2009)
- Resources on Collaboration (California Injury Prevention Network)
- The Community Toolbox
- The Networked Nonprofit (Wei-Skillern J, Marciano S. Stanford Social Innovation Review. Spring 2008)
Effective communications
- Making Health Communication Work : an online book published by the National Cancer Institute about health communication with tips specific to organizations with limited resources (National Cancer Institute)
- Public Communication Resource Center : The Public Communication Resource Center attempts to collect a number of online resources on public speaking in one place
- The Frameworks Institute
Engaging diverse stakeholders
- Developing community capacity (Wolff T. WF Kellogg Foundation)
- Empower the Coalition : Making Partnerships and Collaborations That Work. Types of Diversity in a Coalition (Institute for Sustainable Communities)
Facilitation skills
- Collaboration for a change : Definitions, decision-making models, roles, and collaboration process guide. Unpublished work. Author contact information: HIMMELMAN Consulting, 210 Grant Street West, Suite 422, Minneapolis, MN 55403-2245 612/998-5507 ArthurTHimmelman@aol.com. Foundational article on the different strategies for collaboration and a set of questions to guide the collaborative process. (Himmelman AT. revised April 2004)
- Community Toolbox Section on Facilitation
- Facilitating meetings: A guide for community planning groups (CDC. 2001)
Resources from Tom Wolff
- A practical approach to evaluating coalitions : In T. Backer (Ed.) Evaluating Community Collaborations. Retrieved on March 10, 2006 from the Tom Wolff & Associates web site. Book chapter with nine tools for process and outcome evaluation of coalitions. (Wolff, T. Springer Publishing. 2002)
- Coalition Building: Is this Really Empowerment? : A paper presented at the 1993 American Public Health Association Meeting that outlines a self-assessment for coalitions to determine their status related to the process and outcomes of coalition empowerment. (Wolff, T. 1993 APHA conference presentation)
- Tom Wolff and Associates web site : A one-stop-shop for resources on partnerships and coalition building