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The newsletter that builds your partnerships.

Partnership Design:Build is our free newsletter on the science-society interface. Go deeper with 8 Team Guides - complete, hands-on courses with 68+ interactive tools, slide decks, worksheets, and video walkthroughs your team can use this week.

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Eight Team Guides · 68+ tools

Start anywhere. Go at your own pace.

There's a natural progression from identity to legacy, but each guide stands alone. Pick the one that matches where you are right now.

Guide 01 · Available now8 issues · 8 tools

Story Stacks

From Impact Identity to Impact Legacy

Know who you are before you partner. Build your Impact Identity and learn to tell the story of your work so others see exactly where they fit.

Inside: Impact Identity Explorer · Two-Card Exercise · Story Structure Mapper · Legacy Map Builder.
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Guide 028 issues · 8 tools

Partnership Idea Sparks

What Partnerships Actually Look Like

Move from "we should partner" to "here's exactly how" with 20+ real partnership structures across seven sectors and tools to match your situation.

Inside: Partnership Decision Tree · Partner Finders · Industry Modeler · Portfolio Builder.
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Guide 03 · Super Guide12 issues · 12 tools

Participatory Evaluation - Researchers

Evaluation your team actually wants to do

Design activities that serve participants and generate assessment data at the same time - the dual-purpose principle at the heart of STEMsaic. An expanded guide across six practitioner audiences.

Inside: Translation Architecture Explorer · Story Capture Wizard · Collaborative Scoring · Improvement Cycle Mapper.
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Guide 048 issues · 8 tools

Participatory Evaluation - Workforce

Evaluation at the speed of industry

Workforce partnerships move fast. Design evaluation into the work itself so employers get results, students get pathways, and agencies get data - without slowing down.

Inside: Journeyer Portfolios · Skill Development Mapper · Career Pathway Visualizer · Credential-Competency Mapper.
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Guide 058 issues · 8 tools

Partnership to Proposal

From first contact to funded implementation

Turn partnership conversations into funded collaborations. Walk the entire timeline through the messy middle where most partnerships stall.

Inside: First Conversation Guide · Asset Mapper · Expectation Alignment · Letter of Support Builder.
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Guide 068 issues · 8 tools

Proposal to Reporting

From submission through year 3+ and beyond

The grant got funded - now the real work begins. Build the rhythms and documentation that keep partnerships alive and make reporting almost write itself.

Inside: Proposal-to-Workplan Translator · Story Capture Scheduler · Annual Report Builder · Legacy Documentation.
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Guide 078 issues · 8 tools

Layered Partnership Design

From surface collaborations to systems change

Design partnerships at every level - from one-off collaborations to backbone organizations and systems-level networks that hold a region together.

Inside: Partnership Layer Mapper · Ecosystem Visualizer · Backbone Org Identifier · Layered Partnership Scorecard.
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Guide 088 issues · 8 tools

Workforce Dev Pathways

From classroom to career

Architect career pathways that connect education, employers, and credentials into work-integrated learning that lasts - and that regions can sustain.

Inside: Career Pathway Architect · WIL Design Tool · Credential Stacking Mapper · Earn-and-Learn Calculator.
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In every guide

Not just reading - a kit your team can run with.

Newsletter issues

Colleague-over-coffee writing with frameworks and examples. Read in 10 minutes, apply the same day.

HTML interactives

Decision trees, builders, and scenario tools - right in your browser, no downloads. 68+ across the guides.

Slide decks

Ready-to-use presentations for 60-90 minute team sessions, with facilitation notes so anyone can lead.

PDF worksheets

Fillable templates, planning documents, and protocols. Print them, share them, use them in meetings.

Video walkthroughs

Short demos of each interactive and an overview for each guide. Watch, then try it yourself.

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