As resources to support federally-funded grants shrink and programs that were once established to address specific goals are collapsed, grant leaders are charged with building relationships and collaborations with members of like-agencies and projects to effect systems change. Given this increased emphasis on partnering and building relationships with like entities for the provision of evidenced-based technical assistance, external evaluators are faced with designing appropriate plans and instrumentation to assess the outcomes of these collaborative relationships. Panelists representing a variety of evaluation and programmatic backgrounds will describe: 1) the current nature of grants, cooperative agreements and performance measures guiding the evaluation of collaborative efforts; 2) the utility of the literature review in grounding measurement of collaboration; 3) the roles of the logic model and collaboration map in identifying and measuring outcomes; and 4) the dual experience of the grantee in collaborating with evaluators while measuring collaboration.