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TABLE OF CONTENTS<br />

FOREWORD...................................................................................................................................7<br />

CHAPTER 1: THE POWER OF HIGH-PERFORMANCE PARTNERSHIPS..................11<br />

Organizational Relationships ......................................................................................................12<br />

Defining Characteristics ..............................................................................................................15<br />

Benefits<br />

More Strategic, Effective Results ...........................................................................................17<br />

Leveraged Resources...............................................................................................................18<br />

Stakeholder Commitment and Participation .......................................................................19<br />

Sector-Specific Benefits..........................................................................................................20<br />

Pitfalls to Avoid ............................................................................................................................20<br />

CHAPTER 2: FORCES BEHIND PERFORMANCE-BASED PARTNERSHIPS..............21<br />

The Sectors .........................................................................................................................................22<br />

Trends Supporting <strong>Performance</strong>-Based <strong>Partnerships</strong>......................................................................25<br />

Devolution: Doing More with Less............................................................................................25<br />

<strong>Performance</strong>-Based Reform ........................................................................................................26<br />

Collaboration: The Thing To Do ...............................................................................................27<br />

Customer Expectations in the Internet Age ...............................................................................28<br />

CHAPTER 3: PARTNERSHIP CASE STUDIES.....................................................................29<br />

Medical Care for Children Partnership (Fairfax, Virginia) .............................................................33<br />

Healthy Families Partnership (Hampton, Virginia) ........................................................................38<br />

Lapham Park Venture (Milwaukee, Wisconsin)...............................................................................42<br />

5 A Day For Better Health Program (<strong>National</strong> Cancer Institute)...................................................45<br />

Neighborhoods in Bloom (Richmond, Virginia).............................................................................48<br />

Family Strengthening Coalition and Coalition for Human Services Planning<br />

(Indianapolis, Indiana)................................................................................................................51<br />

Neighborhood Based Service Delivery (Des Moines, Iowa) ...........................................................54<br />

Safe Passages (Oakland, California)..................................................................................................56<br />

Caregivers/Employers Project (Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services)..............................59<br />

The PODER Project (Denver, Colorado) .........................................................................................62<br />

CHAPTER 4: RESULTS ..............................................................................................................65<br />

How To Meet Challenges To Results.................................................................................................66<br />

Defining Success...........................................................................................................................67<br />

Availability <strong>of</strong> Accurate, Timely Data To Measure Results ........................................................70<br />

The Cost <strong>of</strong> Measuring Results ...................................................................................................72<br />

The Data Trap ..............................................................................................................................73<br />

It’s Just Not Working....................................................................................................................73<br />

3 Powering the Future: <strong>High</strong>-<strong>Performance</strong> <strong>Partnerships</strong>

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