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It addresses the common “Valley of Death” between early, soft-funded innovation and durable operations, focusing on the organizational know-how often missing in nonprofit and community-led efforts. The guide supports directors, managers, facilitators, and governance teams with methods for assessing development status, planning growth and maturation, and managing communications, engagement, governance, and transitions.","COMMUNITY CULTIVATION  \nA F I E L D G U I D E  \nRELEASED  \nNOVEMBER 2 0 1 8  \nCOMMUNITY CULTIVATION :  \nA FIELD GUIDE  \nKatherine Skinner, PhD  \nContributors include:  \nHannah Ballard Alex Chassanoff Christina Drummond Martin Halbert David Horth  \nNick Krabbenhoeft Sarah Lippincott Sam Meister  \nJessica Meyerson Caitlin Perry  \nMatt Schultz Melanie Schlosser David Seaman Cal Shepard  \nJohn Sherer  \nTyler Walters Courtney Vukasinovic  \nEducopia Institute Publications Atlanta, Georgia  \nNovember 2018  \nTable of Contents  \nIntroduction.......................................... 1  \nUsing the Field Guide...........................8  \nLifecycle Stages...................................15  \nFormation...................................... 16  \nValidation.......................................22  \nAcceleration...................................28  \nTransition.......................................34  \nResources.............................................40  \nAppendix: Activities Brief....................47  \nCC BY-NC-ND 4.0 2018 by Educopia Institute  \nINTRODUCTION  \nCommunity Cultivation-A Field Guide provides scaffolding and tools that help support and sustain collaborative groups, communities, and organizations.  \nTHE CHALLENGE  \nInnovators abound in the fields of libraries, archives, museums, publishing, and higher education. Many of these idea generators find ample support for the creation of tools and technologies that enable new forms of knowledge production, dissemination, or preservation as those tools are first imagined and piloted.  \nHowever, when these innovators attempt to sustain their creations, external funding and attention often wane. A well-documented “Valley of Death” stretches between softfunded projects and sustainable programs. Without deep knowledge of how to build a support community, and how to manage such elements as resources, communications, engagement, and governance, innovators find the bridge between grant funding and ongoing operations very difficult to cross.  \nUnlike their commercially oriented counterparts, who have access to tech incubators, accelerators, and even federal support infrastructures (e.g., I-Corps, SBIR, STTR), innovators and community leaders in nonprofit spheres often lack models, training, and networking opportunities. Many potential tools and services wither, not due to shortfalls in demand or shortcomings in those products, but rather to a lack of attention to organization and community building.  \nIntroduction 1  \nCREATING THE FIELD GUIDE  \nAt Educopia, we saw this struggle taking place all around us, including in the fields of digital curation, open source software, digital humanities, and digital publishing. We watched tools and services make it past the ideation phase and then become “stuck,”due in large part to the different skillsets required for sustaining this work.  \nAs part of our mission to empower collaborative communities to create, share, and preserve knowledge, Educopia began providing administrative and technical scaffolding for community networks in 2006. Since that time, we have created services and training to bolster promising collaborative efforts and to help communities successfully grow and mature. We have established community assessments that help us recognize and respond with appropriate training when a community is ready for growth and also when a community is ready for transition, including \"spin off,\" “spin down,” or sunsetting processes for projects, programs, and organizations.  \nWe are now openly sharing the model that we have developed and refined over the last twelve years. Community Cultivation-A Field Guide provides a powerful lens that can provide both emerging and established communities with ways to understand, evaluate, and plan their own growth, change, and maturation. 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