Generally speaking, does your leadership team(s) and/or Board of Directors (if applicable) share a similar vision of the partnership(s) as the leadership team(s) and/or Board of Directors of your partner(s)?

Does this partnership(s) fill a specific gap that had been identified by priority setting or strategy development? In other words, did your organization determine ahead of time what your partnership(s) needs were?

Is there a clear social and/or financial return on investment that you could calculate by partnering with this organization(s)?

We have gone through a priority setting, goal-setting or pre-project/program meeting with this partner(s) to ensure we are all on the same page moving forward.

My organization's communications/marketing/messaging team is aware of this partnership(s) in case we want to share lessons learned or tell great stories that come from the collaboration.

Employees inside both organizations are engaged, energized and involved in this partnership(s) in some way and/or can get involved if they so choose (perhaps via donating, volunteering, sharing about the partnership(s) on social media, providing insights/input, etc).

There is a clear way to monitor and/or measure the results or impact that arise from this partnership(s).

Roles, responsibilities, timelines, budgets and expected deliverables are agreed upon in writing and updated on a frequent basis (preferably every 3 months at minimum).

We have a plan to leverage this partnership(s) to help grow or scale our impact.

Please share what you most hope to get out of this partnership(s)? Would you say you are on track? Why/Why not?