Partnership Impact Evaluation Guide (2019)

By Leigh Goldberg and Amy Mickel, Ph.D. 

The Partnership Impact Model™ includes the 11 Partnership Impacts, Scaling Up Partnership Impact, the Partnership Impact Roadmap, and the 7 Steps of Partnership Impact Evaluation. 

The 11 Partnership Impacts is a framework that explicitly highlights the collection of impacts that landscape-scale stewardship partnerships should consider when it comes to delivering and measuring the value of their collaborative initiatives; it can be used to help identify what impact looks like for them.

The Partnership Impact Evaluation Guide provides an additional tool for partnership practitioners on ways to evaluate and create impact metrics. It also provides guidance on how to measure impact indicators over time.

This guide is designed to be used with other resources introduced in Generating, Scaling Up, and Sustaining Partnership Impact: One Tam’s First Four Years (Mickel & Goldberg, 2018)—a publication of findings from a four-year study of the One Tam collaborative based in Marin County, California.

Learn more about the One Tam collaborative.

For more about the history of One Tam, see The Tamalpais Lands Collaborative Case Studies.

Commissioned by the Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy and funded by the S. D. Bechtel, Jr. Foundation, the One Tam Four-Year Partnership Study was designed to identify the complex elements of partnership impact, with the goal of sharing the findings broadly with others in the field in California and nationwide.