ARCHIVED: Community Collaboration Videoconference - The Sequel!
June 19, 2006 1:00-3:00 PM ET

CPB and IMLS are pleased to announce a 2nd Partnership for a Nation of Learners Community Collaboration Videoconference, to be held on Monday, June 19, 2006 from 1:00-3:00 PM.

Successful collaborative projects require careful design and ongoing management.  This interactive session explored Managing for Success by example.  As with the previous session, we were joined by two PNL-funded projects – each of which is in the throes of project implementation.  We learned about each of these projects and uncovered some of the lessons learned during the formative stages of their work.  

Our presenting projects were:

Kids With Asthma Can . . .
WGBH Educational Foundation
Working together with Boston Children’s Museum, Boston Public Library, Children’s Hospital Boston, and the Boston Public Health Commission

Beginning a Healthy Life
Avampato Discovery Museum
Working together with West Virginia Public Broadcasting System and the Kanawha County Library System

Successful collaborative projects require careful planning and design.  This interactive session explored Designing for Impact by example.  Three PNL-funded projects – each of which is in the throes of project implementation - presented their work and some of the lessons learned during the formative stages of their work. 

Presenting projects were:

Eye on the Night Sky: A Project for Science Literacy
Fairbanks Museum and Planetarium, working together with Vermont Public Radio

Perspectives: Issues and Explorations
Haines Borough Public Library, working together with Lynn Canal Broadcasting

Saving Nebraska's Treasurers: Preventive Conservation for Families, Museums, & Libraries
Nebraska State Historical Society, working together with the Nebraska Library Commission and Nebraska Educational Telecommunications (NET)

You can experience this event by downloading the PowerPoint file to your desktop, and simultaneously playing back the audio file.  Click on "Read More."

Are you my partner?  Partnerships begin with planning that includes identifying community needs and potential partners; success comes in determining the right partner mix that will achieve the project’s intended outcomes. This month’s Partnership for a Nation of Learners Interactive Session explored finding the “right match” between project and partners.  The session included insight from veteran public broadcaster and teaming expert Mark Sachs.  Project Access – a collaboration between the Frist Center for Visual Arts and the Nashville Public Library – was also featured with partnering perspectives from both organizations.

You can experience this event by downloading the PDF file to your desktop, and simultaneously playing back the audio ZIP file.  Click on "Read More."

An edited transcript of this audioconference is available. Click on "Read More."

Twelve months from now, what difference will your partnership have made?  A program may be in in place, a partnership may be formalized.  But what has changed in your community?  What population has been reached and served?  Assessing community needs is arguably the most important phase of the partnering process.  Successful projects begin with an identified need and an intimate understanding of the targeted audience(s).  This Interactive Session explores community needs by example.  We will feature two successful projects that targeted a need and realized outcomes as a result of a collaborative effort. 

You can experience this event by downloading the PDF file to your desktop, and simultaneously playing back the audio file (ZIP 136 KB).  Click on "Read More."

This first professional development event explored the genesis of collaboration, the benefits of partnering and the identification of each organization’s most valuable assets.  Featured speakers: Tona Barkley, Kentucky Educational Television and Alison M. White, CPB. Moderated by Dr. James Marshall.

An edited transcript of the audioconference is available. Click on "Read More."