Partnership-Ready Organization Guiding Questions

Questions designed to help organizational leadership teams reflect on their readiness to partner with schools. These questions can be helpful before entering into new partnerships, or when rethinking or evaluating existing partnerships. 

Partnership-Ready School Guiding Questions

Questions designed to help school leaders reflect on their readiness to partner with outside organizations. These questions can be helpful before entering into new partnerships, or when rethinking or evaluating existing partnerships.

Sample Visioning Process for Partnerships

It is very likely that schools and community partners have vision or mission statements specific to their organizations, but to what extent do they complement one another? By creating a shared vision to guide partnership, partners can begin the process of aligning work toward maximum impact. This tool provides guidance on conducting a community visioning process for a partnership.

Youth Program Partnership Newsletter Guide

Use this guide to think about what you might include in a newsletter about your program, and also about the frequency and format that would best meet the needs of your audience. 

School Partner Programs Inventory

Site coordinators (principals, school staff, or community-based organization leaders) can take inventory of existing programs and partners within their school using this tool. This process can take time to complete, but can help to clarify the partnership landscape at a school site.

School Partner Programs and Services Inventory Spreadsheet

Site coordinators (principals, school staff, or community-based organization leaders) can take inventory of existing programs and partners within their school using this tool. This process can take time to complete, but can help to clarify the partnership landscape at a school site. This is the spreadsheet version of this tool.