Strategic Collaboration in Public and Nonprofit Administration : A Practice-Based Approach to Solving Shared Problems

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STRATEGIC COLLABORATION
IN PUBLIC AND NONPROFIT
ADMINISTRATION
A Practice-Based Approach to
Solving Shared Problems
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STRATEGIC COLLABORATION
IN PUBLIC AND NONPROFIT
ADMINISTRATION
A Practice-Based Approach to
Solving Shared Problems
DOROTHY NORRIS-TIRRELL
JOY A. CLAY
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Norris-Tirrell, Dorothy.
Strategic collaboration in public and nonprofit administration : a practice-based
approach to solving shared problems / Dorothy Norris-Tirrell, Joy A. Clay.
p. cm. -- (American Society for Public Administration book series on public
administration & public policy)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-1-4200-8875-5 (hardcover : alk. paper)
1. Local government--United States. 2. Strategic planning--United States. 3. Problem
solving--United States. 4. Public-private sector cooperation--United States. 5. Nonprofit
organizations--United States--Management. I. Clay, Joy A. II. Title. III. Series.
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Contents
List of Tables .................................................................................................vii
List of Figures ................................................................................................ix
Preface ............................................................................................................xi
Acknowledgments .......................................................................................xvii
About the Authors ........................................................................................xix
Contributors .................................................................................................xxi
1 The Promise of Strategic Collaboration .................................................1
DOROTHY NORRIS-TIRRELL AND JOY A. CLAY
2 A New Lens: The Life Cycle Model of Collaboration ...........................27
DOROTHY NORRIS-TIRRELL AND JOY A. CLAY
3 Assessing Collaborative Readiness: The Missing Strategic Step ...........55
JOY A. CLAY AND DOROTHY NORRIS-TIRRELL
4 Strategic Collaboration in Action: Six Principles .................................73
DOROTHY NORRIS-TIRRELL AND JOY A. CLAY
5 Attending to the Forgotten: The Elderly, Collaborative Practice,
and Evacuation .....................................................................................99
PAMELA J. JENKINS, JOHN J. KIEFER, AND SHIRLEY LASKA
6 Running Out of Classrooms! Solving Overcrowding through
Collaborative School Planning ...........................................................123
ESTEBAN DALEHITE
7 Moving beyond Hierarchies: Creating Effective Collaboration
Networks for West Nile Virus Biosurveillance in Oregon ..................151
G. BRIAN BURKE, CHRISTOPHER M. WIRTH, THERESA A. PARDO,
AMY D. SULLIVAN, HYUCKBIN KWON, AND J. RAMON GILGARCIA
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8 Information Stewardship and Collaboration: Advancing
Evidence-Based Public Policy Decision Making ................................177
JOY A. CLAY AND CINDY MARTIN
9 Choices and Challenges: Sustaining a Rural Health Network
when Funding Vanishes ......................................................................209
DANA J. PATTON AND KENDRA B. STEWART
10 Collaboration, Citizen Participation, and Environmental
Protection in the Marine Oil Trade of Alaska ....................................233
GEORGE J. BUSENBERG
11 Paving the Way for Public Transportation in Texas through
Public Collaboration ..........................................................................253
SARMISTHA R. MAJUMDAR, JASON PIERCE, AND COLLEEN MOYNIHAN
12 Cape Fear Healthy Carolinians: Taking Risks, Crossing
Boundaries .........................................................................................269
THOMAS J. BARTH AND ELIZABETH J. DEMSKI
13 Building a Community–Higher Education Collaboration to Meet
the Needs of the Local Nonprofit Sector ............................................293
DOROTHY NORRISTIRRELL AND SUSAN TOMLINSON SCHMIDT
14 The Mastery of Strategic Collaboration Practice ................................313
JOY A. CLAY AND DOROTHY NORRIS-TIRRELL
Appendix A: Recommended Reading List for Collaborative Practice ........327
Appendix B: Collaboration Operating Guidelines Sample .........................329
Appendix C: Participant Agreement ...........................................................333
Appendix D: Matrix of Collaboration Participant Roles ...........................335
Appendix E: Checklist for Strategic Collaboration Meetings .....................337
Appendix F: Parliamentary Procedure Highlights for Effective
Meetings .................................................................................................339
Appendix G: Collaborative Analysis of a Contested Policy Issue
Checklist.................................................................................................341
Appendix H: Recent Collaboration Practice Literature .............................343
References ...................................................................................................355
Index ...........................................................................................................373
List of Tables
Table 1.1 People Skills Essential for Collaboration..........................................12
Table 1.2 Analytic Skills Essential for Collaboration ......................................13
Table 1.3 Boundary-Spanning Skills Essential for Collaboration....................14
Table 1.4 Overview of Cases ...........................................................................19
Table 2.1 Usable Knowledge for Strategic Collaboration Practice ...................33
Table 2.2 Diagnosing Collaboration Decline ..................................................45
Table 2.3 Steps of Strategic Collaboration ......................................................49
Table 3.1 Collaborative Readiness Assessment and Decision to Proceed
or Not .............................................................................................70
Table 3.2 Key Readiness Questions to Be Addressed Prior to Forming a
Strategic Collaboration ...................................................................71
Table 4.1 Collaborative Readiness Checklist ...................................................76
Table 4.2 The Stages of Collaboration: Conventional Activities and
Strategic Practice .............................................................................79
Table 4.3 Taking the Collaboration Temperature ...........................................83
Table 4.4 Key Elements of MOU or Letter of Commitment ..........................85
Table 4.5 Tools for Group Creativity and Innovation .....................................88
Table 4.6 Collaboration Dissemination Methods ...........................................89
Table 4.7 Personal Traits for the Ideal Strategic Collaboration Participant .....91
Table 5.1 Elderly Evacuation Working Group Participation .........................105
Table 6.1 1994 Descriptive Statistics for School Crowding (Enrollment/
Capacity) in Palm Beach County, Florida, by Type of School .......129
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Table 6.2 Key Stakeholders and Position vis-à-vis Collaborative School
Planning .....................................................................................131
Table 6.3 1993 Amendments Strengthening Collaboration Provisions .......135
Table 6.4 Revenue Sources Used to Finance Concurrency and
Modernization ............................................................................138
Table 6.5 Trends in New and Modernized Schools ....................................143
Table 8.1 Summary Description of Key SUDS Information Subsystems ....184
Table 8.2 Summary of SUDS Subsystems: Key Formal Partners and
Their Respective Roles ................................................................190
Table 8.3 Summary of Data Sharing and Collaboration Challenges and
Current Status.............................................................................193
Table 9.1 Economic Indicators in the United States, Kentucky, and the
Five-County Service Region, 2006 ..............................................213
Table 9.2 Adult Overweight and Obesity Prevalence in the
United States, Kentucky, and the Five-County Service
Region, 2000–2002 ....................................................................214
Table 11.1 Has DCTA Provided Accurate Information to the
Community? ...............................................................................261
Table 11.2 Participants’ Uncertainty about Potential Impacts on Their
Community ................................................................................262
Table 14.1 The Keys to Collaborating Strategically .......................................318
Table 14.2 Avoiding Strategic Collaboration Failure ....................................321
List of Figures
Figure 1.1 The continuum of collaborative activity. ..........................................5
Figure 1.2 Collaboration impacts. ....................................................................7
Figure 1.3 Three knowledge areas transferable to collaboration. .....................11
Figure 2.1 Life cycle model of collaboration. ..................................................31
Figure 2.2 Collaboration life cycle Stage 1: Exploration. ...............................34
Figure 2.3 Collaboration life cycle Stage 2: Formation. ..................................38
Figure 2.4 Collaboration life cycle Stage 3: Growth. ......................................38
Figure 2.5 Collaboration life cycle Stage 4: Maturity. .....................................41
Figure 2.6 Collaboration life cycle Stage 5a: Ending/Dissolution. ..................43
Figure 2.7 Collaboration life cycle Stage 5b: Ending/Decline. .......................45
Figure 2.8 Collaboration life cycle Stage 5c: Ending/Renewal.......................46
Figure 4.1 Framework of strategic collaboration .............................................94
Figure 6.1 Enrollment in Florida’s largest school districts, 1987–2004. ........128
Figure 6.2 Structure of collaborative school planning. ..................................140
Figure 6.3 New and modernized schools ......................................................143
Figure 7.1 Oregon West Nile virus surveillance network. .............................163
Figure 8.1 Key components in the collaborative structure. ...........................192
Figure 8.2 SUDS organization structure. .....................................................196
Figure 8.3 Community demand. ..................................................................201
Figure 9.1 Self-reported monthly income of survey respondents. ..................215
Figure 9.2 Self-reported education level by survey respondents. ....................216
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