This important resource provides an in-depth, analytical, and practical approach to building, sustaining, and nurturing these complex organizations.

Author Frances Dunn Butterfoss includes all the tools for success in collaborative work from a research and practice-based stance. The book contains useful approaches to the issues, recommendations for action, resources for further study, and examples from actual coalition work.

Coalitions and Partnerships in Community Health explores

• Historical foundations of coalitions and partnerships
• Principles of collaboration and partnering
• Benefits and challenges of a coalition approach
• Coalition frameworks and models
• Cultivating coalition leadership
• Roles and responsibilities of coalition staff, leaders, and members
• Communication, decision-making, and problem-solving methods
• Vision, mission, and bylaws
• Effective marketing
• Planning for sustainability
• Approaches to assessment
• Developing strategic and action plans
• Implementing coalition strategies in the community
• Media advocacy, strategies, and tips
• Participatory coalition evaluation