School & Community Partnerships

Resources to support student-centered work across sectors

Our school and community partnership resources are designed to help community-based partners to support student success before and after school, and in the summer. In this section, you will find research briefs, tip sheets, and practical tools on all topics related to cross-sector collaboration.

You can also access a suite of useful tools by browsing our School and Community Partnership Toolkit.

For more information on our School and Community Partnership resources, contact Anne Arias.

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Feedback Loop Exercise

Tool to support the giving and receiving of feedback

Elevator Pitch Activity

Activity designed to help with the development of an [...]

Communication Strategy Guiding Questions

Guiding questions to help partners create a communication strategy [...]

Creating a Partnership Communication Strategy

Tool to help partners plan out a yearly communication [...]

Identifying Common Outcomes for Partnerships

Tool to help community organizations identify goals they have [...]

Working Together

Shared Accountability Checklist

Self-assessment tool for community partners around program and partnership [...]

Aligned, Responsive Implementation Checklist

Self-assessment tool for community partners who are working with [...]

Finding Funding to Sustain Your Partnership

Use this worksheet to document potential funding sources

Data to Practice Protocol for Partnerships

Discussion guide for looking at data with partners

Theory of Change to Logic Model Worksheet for Partnerships

Worksheet to help with the creation of a logic [...]

Theory of Change to Logic Model Example for Partnerships

Example of a Theory of Change to Logic Model [...]