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This article presents the results of a qualitative analysis of 80 articles
chapters, and practitioners' guides focused on collaboration and coalition
functioning. The purpose of this review was to develop an integrative frame
work that captures the core competencies and processes needed within collab
orative bodies to facilitate their success. The resulting framework for bui
lding collaborative capacity is presented. Four critical levels of collabor
ative capacity-member capacity, relational capacity, organizational capacit
y, and programmatic capacity-are described and strategies for building each
type are provided The implications of this model for practitioners and sch
olars are discussed.