Mapping collaborative groups and resource
management organizations across 12 states
2-3-2 Cohesive Strategy Partnership
Type: Collaborative group
Altar Valley Conservation Alliance
Type: Support organization/entity
Amargosa Toad Working Group
Type: Collaborative group
Animas Watershed Partnership
Type: Collaborative group
Aravaipa Watershed Conservation Alliance
Type: Collaborative group
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What are support organizations and and collaborative groups?
Collaboratives are formal or informal interorganizational structures that are:
- Place-based: Focused on a specific, cross-jurisdictional geography of interest;
- Collaboratively governed: Comprised of multiple partners/participants that represent different organizations, agencies, and/or interests, and that embrace shared leadership, decision-making, and consensus-building;
- Guided by a long-term landscape purpose: Working towards shared long-term (i.e. not a single specific project) conservation, stewardship, restoration, and/or management goals or objectives.
“Collaborative” is used as an umbrella term to represent a variety of differing structures and degrees of formality for individuals and entities coming together in collaboration to advance enduring outcomes for a specific place/landscape, and is intended to include collaboratives, partnerships, networks, coalitions, alliances, working groups, etc.
Support Entities support and/or provide services that advance the abilities of collaboratives to function and work towards their goals. Examples of services may include providing facilitation support; offering training, skills-building, and/or mentoring; synthesizing science and data across scales; providing technical assistance and expertise; providing funding to support collaboratives; convening peer learning and cross-network exchanges; etc. “Support Entity” is used as an umbrella term, and is intended to reflect a variety of differing entities, including organizations, networks, public agencies, etc. that support and/or serve collaboratives.
The Find a Collaborative platform is a living inventory and map of Collaboratives and Support Entities working on landscape conservation, stewardship, and resource management in the United States and cross-border regions. This geospatial and interactive discovery tool is intended to help Collaboratives and Support Entities more easily find and connect with each other for inspiration, shared learning and exchange, problem solving, and collaboration.
