Common elements of successful projects

• Need-based, outcome driven
• Mutual benefits
• Adequate allocations of people, facilties and funds
• Involved stakeholders
• Advance agreement on policies
• Effective evaluation of people and programs
• Interdisciplinary approach
• Collegiality among collaborators and clientele
• Innovative delivery methods

Recommendations

• Think big, start small
• Let constituent needs drive programs
• Lead, don't follow
• Identify champions at all levels
• Look across the institution as well as out
• Make mutual benefits mandatory
• Agree in advance
• Model best behavior
• Communicate success

Multi-State Collaboration Vision
Expanded opportunities...built on a foundation of mutual objectives and shared benefits…unbound by disciplinary or political borders.