COALITION BUILDING-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

A Collective Vision For Advocacy…

by Shani Kapoor

AshaKiran

Agenda…_______________________________________________________________

o Overview of AshaKirano Coalition Buildingo Annual events- Case Studyo Discussion

VisionAshaKiran aspires to be a ray of hope towards building a healthy and harmonious community

MissionAshaKiran is committed to educate, empathize and empower persons of South Asian origin and beyond while providing culturally sensitive and confidential services to people experiencing trauma and crisis situations.

A Ray of Hope

Coalition?____________________________________________________________________________________

An alliance for combined action.

o Volunteers ‘urge for making a difference’ by serving the community.

o Multiple international and national “incidents” leading up to the event

o Org. objective to increase outreach within wider community

o Need for collective efforts-

Genesis…____________________________________________________________________________

First Community Kite Festival

• More than 2000 people

• Aprox. 60 non-profit org. exhibits

• 220 volunteers

• Mayor and other

dignatories

Almost 52 local non-profits came together as an alliance to sponsor the event in less than one month time-frame.

Mapping Prospective Partnerships...Religious

• Interfaith Mission• Churches• Jewish temples/

synagogues• Islam mosques• Hindu Temple• Buddhist• Other faiths and

sects

Humanitarian/ service-org

• United Way• Housing• NAHC

City

Chamber of Commerce

Protection

· Police· Sheriff

Education

• Public• Private• Universities

International

· ISC· ISH· All countries· Hispanic Adv

Committee

Healthy Huntsville

· Huntsville Hospital

· Crestwood· MPHD

Responsibility/Task: Publicity, entertainment, program, flyer design, hospitality room, food/vendors, volunteer co-ordination, stage management, booth solicitation/RSVPs, Kite flying, welcome/information table

Packed with festive spirit of fun, unity and social awareness…

Non-profit booths…

Entertainment for kids- Face Painting, puppet show and kite decoration…

One Billion Rising …

“Kites rise highest against the

wind not with it” Winston Churchill

Awwww…….

100 foot long, 30 pound Octopus Kite..

In all it’s glory…

Live entertainment…

o Started in 2007o Holistic wellbeingo $200 per cliento Total over 54,000o Over 30 health

service providerso Including 20 doctorso 120 volunteers (46

youth)o 50 collaboratorso City-shuttle serviceo Screenings, food,

care bagso Huntsville hosp.-

mobile medical unit

Health Fair..

Free Health Screen and Fair

Health and Wellness 2013

• Alliance grown

• Domestic Violence screening

Feedback and Quotes from attendees…________________________________________________________________________________________

“Thank you for your great vision and to all the volunteers that made the health fair possible. I really appreciated your desire to have those in the Hispanic community receiving this assistant. Next year will be even better”.

Rosa M. Toussaint-Ortiz, Community Services Chaplain

“Thank you very much for your generosity and for the help that you bring to the community. I was with my mom today at the Health Screening and I was very happy with my experience. I would like to THANK YOU personal for everything.”

Cristina Bratu (From Russia)  Ccongratulate ‘for hosting the most organized health fair’. Julie

Drzewiecki

“Last year I organized over 78 community health screenings and we screened over 4000 people as a health system.  Out of all 78 community screenings I was involved in last year, AshaKiran had the best foot print of what a community screening should be & I encourage other organizations to shadow the AshaKiran model.  You had more physicians under one roof for a community screening that I have ever seen & a great mixture of informational and biometric screening areas creating a very balanced and well rounded health fair experience. 

o Having a volunteer leading small group through the entire fair ensures everyone participates at all stations which is where the full benefit is realized.  As a local health professional I would advise anyone looking to host a community health fair to contact AshaKiran in an effort to replicate what they do for the community”.  o Pranteek Patnaik, oordinator, Mobile Medical Unit, Huntsville Hospital

Processo Desire to do somethingo Competence to execute o Willing partnerso Successful coalition

Leadership- key

o Clear, quantifiable, and attainable goals

o Diverse partnershipso Decide on coalition

structureo Delegate task and

resposibilityo Allow partners to leado Empower people to

become effective and active- facilitator

o Avoid too-controversial alliances

o Make involvement easyo Provide timely

informationo Risk assessment,

strategize fire-fighting

Courtesy: Sierra Club

Structure of Co-operation…____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

How it helped us…_________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

o Resource sharingo Successful partnershipso Visibility – of AK and causeo Awareness of social issueso Trust- clients/communityo Empowering experienceo Leadership position- esp. AKo Leadership development