collaboration. it is a process where two or more people or organizations work together to realize...
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Collaboration
CollaborationIt is a process where two or more people or organizations work together to realize shared goals
Networking
Networking
forming business connections and contacts through informal social meetings
Collaboration
Collaboration
When two or more people/ organizations work together to share ideas, opinions, and experiences to accomplish a task bringing their own individual insights, ideas, perspectives and expertise and use them to achieve a common goal.
A formal relationship.
CollaborationIn Barbara Gray's Collaborating: Finding Common Ground for Multiparty Problems, She describes collaboration as "a processthrough which parties who see different aspects of a problem can constructively explore their differences and search for solutions that go beyond their own limited vision of what is possible."
Collaboration Idea Need Sustainable Collective Impact
involving measurable results that the collaborators want to achieve
evidence-based practices for problem solving increases the chance of success
it takes time
Forming Storming Norming Performing
The Tuckman Model
Guidelines Strategic planning Agreed upon goals & work plan Leadership Subcommittees Movement Collection of Data Outcomes Celebration
assign a coordinator
tell me about your organization’s collaboration relationships
create a document keep it updated
start now
RESOURCES
How to Make Collaboration Work: Powerful Ways to Build Consensus, Solve Problems, and Make Decisions, by David Straus, Thomas C. Layton
Harnessing the Power of Community Collaborations: Use Seven Tools to Get Results, by Lyle Wray and Paul Epstein
Community Collaborative Tool Kit – Resources for Communities
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Creating Community ImpactWork in small groups to (1) develop a logic model and (2) identify prospective partners and determine how to approach them to create community impact by addressing one of these community problems:
• Averting gang involvement among 10th graders• Ensuring all children in SV can read by end of grade 3• Preventing obesity/promoting healthy diets among Latino
community members• Ensuring that abused women get the services and support they
need
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The 4 funding Focus Areas researched and selected by the Membership for the $100,000 annual Impact Grant:
• Enrichment & Environment• Prevention & Intervention• Social Outreach• Women & Girls
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Members voted for 35% of all funds received each year to go toward Community Grants of $5,000-$15,000 for these 3 targeted purposes, researched and selected by the Membership:
• Capital Grants • Program Grants: Innovative Programs• Program Grants: Planning for Strategic Partnering
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Grant Program Calendar 2012 - 2013• Nov 6 Second Nonprofit Workshop – Focus Areas and Community
Grants Programs Explored (3-5 pm, St. Leos)• Feb 1 Letters of Inquiry due from nonprofits by midnight • Feb 22 Invitations sent to nonprofits to submit full proposals• Mar 25 Full Proposals due from nonprofits by midnight• Apr 15-Jun 1 Focus Area & Community Grant Committees evaluate Full
Proposals, Schedule Site Visits, and Select Finalists• Jun 3 Grant Finalists and Members are notified• Jun 4 Media Notified• Jun 5-12 Grant Chairs meet with Finalists• Jun 22 Third Annual Meeting: Members select all grants recipients