Over the two-year period from 2011-13, the six Heart of Brooklyn (HOB) cultural institutions designed, pilot tested, and evaluated a process for conceiving and implementing collaborative programs that address community needs. The overall purpose of the Building Strong Community Networks (BSCN) project was to build capacity for diagnosing and responding creatively to community needs through the diverse cultural assets of the six HOB members – Brooklyn Botanic Garden, Brooklyn Children’s Museum, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn Public Library, Prospect Park Alliance and Prospect Park Zoo.
This “Collaboration Workbook” distills what was learned, in hopes of advancing the field’s understanding of how dissimilar cultural institutions that share the same community can find common ground and build an organic and robust approach to collaboration. While numerous individuals contributed to the process, members of the BSCN Working Group, an inter-disciplinary, cross-institutional group of professionals
