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title: Guide to Building and Maintaining Community Partnerships
description: Building and maintaining a network of community partnerships is not easy. We wrote this guide to help you lay the groundwork for forming partnerships that work.
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# Your Guide to Building and Maintaining Community Partnerships

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Building a partnership network is not easy. This guide is meant to demystify the process and to help you lay the groundwork for forming partnerships that *work*.

The guide's framework is based on implementing LENA programs, but it can also be applied more widely:

- **Map it out**. How do you identify "good fit" partners?
- **Recruit**. How do you establish alignment and get them on board?
- **Communicate**. How do you clarify roles and responsibilities?
- **Celebrate**. How do you lift up your partners?

With the right partnerships mapped out, the right partners recruited, and the right communications strategies in place, the end goal of delivering high-impact programs that better people’s lives can come into clear focus.

Download this guide to get started! And while you're here, [stream the webinar](https://info.lena.org/structuring-effective-community-partnerships-to-grow-impact-webinar?hsLang=en) that inspired the guide.