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The National Girls Collaborative Project: Using Collaborative Tools to Increase Gender Equity in STEM
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Women in STEM Fields
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National Girls Collaborative Project
The National Girls Collaborative Project (NGCP) brings together organizations that are committed to informing and encouraging girls to pursue careers in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM).
www.ngcproject.org
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Current Regional Collaboratives
• Connecticut• Florida• Great Lakes
(IN, MI, MN, OH, WI)• Kentucky• Maine • Mid-Atlantic
(DC, DE,MD, VA)• Midwest
(IL, KS, MO)
• New Hampshire/Vermont• North Carolina• Pacific Northwest
(AK, HI, ID, MT, OR, WA)• Pennsylvania• Southern New England
(MA, RI)• Texas• Tennessee
www.ngcproject.org/map_regions.html
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NGCP Project Expansion
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Project Goals
1. Maximize access to shared resources within projects and with public and private sector organizations and institutions interested in expanding girls’ participation in STEM.
2. Strengthen capacity of existing and evolving projects by sharing promising practice research and program models, outcomes and products.
3. Use the leverage of a network or collaboration of individual girl-serving STEM programs to create the tipping point for gender equity in STEM.
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Why Collaborate?
Uncoordinated Services • Collaboration allows for the creation of a higher
quality, more integrated experience.• Collaboration reduces isolation among STEM
professionals.
Scarce Resources• Collaborative relationships increase access to scarce
resources.
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Why Collaborate?Increased Capacity• Collaboration strengthens relationships among
organizations, increasing the potential for learning by sharing promising practices.
• Organizations have increased ability to achieve important outcomes and increaseimpact.
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Ways to Share Resources
• Networking
• Cooperation
• Coordination
• Coalition
• Collaboration
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Model Components and Activities
• Collaborative Leadership Teams• Collaborative Events: Conferences, Forums, and
Webcasts• Program Directory• Project Web site• E- Newsletter• Incentives to Collaborate: Mini-Grant Funding• National and Regional Champions Boards
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Voices from the Field: Collaboration in Action
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Are You Ready to Collaborate?
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Best Practices in Successful Collaboration
• Prepare
• Look
• Plan
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Best Practices in Successful Collaboration
PREPARE
• Reflect on past collaborations and the characteristics of successful or ineffective collaborations.
• Create a quick summary of your program services you can easily share when you first meet potential collaborators.
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Best Practices in Successful Collaboration
PREPARE
• Identify your program/institutional strengths and challenges.
• Identify the program/institutional resources you have to offer.
• Identify your program/institutional needs.
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Best Practices in Successful Collaboration
LOOK
• Find the “home” of your audience who can benefit from your research findings/program products and services.
• Identify assistance or guides that can help you.
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Best Practices in Successful Collaboration
PLAN
• Be flexible and patient.
• Allow for organizational diversity.
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Best Practices in Successful Collaboration
PLAN
• Create a positive relationship based on mutual trust.
• Create a collaboration agreement or action plan.
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Resources • Collaboration Guide
www.ngcproject.org/resources/replication.cfm
• Program Directorywww.ngcproject.org/directory
• Mini-Grant Schedulewww.ngcproject.org/mini-grant/schedule.cfm
• Archived Webcastswww.ngcproject.org/resources/webcastarchive.cfm
• Receive the NGCP E-newsletterwww.ngcproject.org/resources/newsletter.html