• Characteristics of Strong Partnerships
• Assess The Strengths of a New Partnership
• Checklist for Partnership Building
• Asset Mapping
• Consortia-based grant applications
• Encourages creativity and innovation
• Diverse Input – yields diverse experiences and collective resources
• Increases efficiency due to
sharing of resources and costs
• A mutually beneficial relationship between
two or more organizations
• Collaborative partners share resources
as well as rewards
• Increases likelihood program services will be
sustained beyond initial funding support
• Demonstrates to the funder that project
outcomes will be ‘supported beyond the
service boundaries’ of the lead organization
• A group that establishes a collaborative
relationships may be referred to as:
– Partnership
– Alliance
– Coalition
– Strategic Alliance
– Affiliation
– Task Force
Ongoing Collaboration
Joint Action on Specific Issues
Sharing Resources and Facilities
Coordinating Programs and Services
Networking and Sharing Information
• Partnerships :
– Create new opportunities for everyone
– Generate trust between local constituents
– Expands the service opportunities for all members
– Increase access to financial and human resources
– Increases ability to leverage resources and secure matching monies
– Provides a significant competitive edge for
grantseeking efforts
• WIIFM
(What In It For Me – or my organization?)
• Partners expect:
– A share of the funding dollars that will directly
support their organization
– An equal voice or vote in group decisions
– Reciprocal benefits from members
• In the Grant Application –
the partnership should provide evidence that:
– Collaborative efforts have succeeded with
members for similar initiatives
– Partners will commit cash to reduce the
amount of required grant funding
– Partners will commit personnel, space, equipment,
supplies, etc. to reduce the funding requirements
• What are the factors that exist within
the group that will enhance its success?
• What are the factors that exist within
the group that will create roadblocks
for success?
• Successful partnerships require:– Communication, Sustainability, Positive Political
Climate, Resources, Connectedness
and Leadership
• Review: Assessing Factors for Cultivating and
Maintaining Collaborative Partnerships
• Focus on a partnership you are currently
working with - or plan to initiate
• Read the description for each factor
• Score each factor based upon your opinion of
how your partnership is functioning
• Which factors did your collaborative partnership score best?
Communication SustainabilityPolitical ClimateResourcesConnectedness Leadership
• These are “Strengths” that will enable your partnership to achieve successwith the proposed project.
• Be sure and highlight these attributes within the proposal componentthat addresses partnership characteristics and strengths.
• Which factors did your collaborative partnership score poorly?
Communication SustainabilityPolitical ClimateResourcesConnectedness Leadership
• These factors should be regarded as “Challenges” to sustaining a strong collaborative partnership.
• The partnership should determine strategies to address the factors that are challenges to the overall success of the partnership.
Collaboration fails when:
People don’t want to.It’s done to appease others.Individuals can’t see beyond their own interests.Issues/outcomes are poorly defined.Leadership is ineffective or absent.Expertise and access to information is lackingStakeholders are adversarial or territorial.There is no mutual trust among partners.
When a new Partnership is formed - decisions must be made regarding key issues such as:– Individual needs or agendas
– Contributions/Resources
– Meetings/Communications
– Conflict Resolution
– Partnership Framework
– Process for Decision Making
– Process for Developing Joint Agreements
• Review the Checklist For Partnership Building.
• Convene the members of the new partnership.
• Use the checklist to guide the agenda for this meeting.
• Summarize inputs and publish a “Partnership Guidelines” handbook for the team.
• Submit the “Partnership Guidelines” for group approval.
• What is Asset Mapping?
– A visual way to identify strengths and resources
that exist to support your initiative
– Once resources are inventoried and mapped – the partnership can build upon these resources to
address project needs
– Asset mapping builds collaborative involvement
from the community to support your initiate
• Effective partnerships are complex
• Significant level of investment is necessary to
support a successful partnership
• It is essential to spend time identifying: current collaborative assets; as well as
potential liabilities
• Asset Mapping is an effective tool for: inventorying assets in your service area
cultivating new partnership resources
• Identifies community strengths
and weaknesses
• Defines gaps in programs and services
• Identifies resources in the community
that can be leveraged for matching and in-kind
requirement
• Documents real–life collaboration efforts
expended by the partnership to validate solutions and resource requirements.
• Review: A Simple Community Asset Map• What types are assets have been inventoried?
– Individual, community associations, and localinstitutions?
• Review: Asset Mapping Resources From Kaboom.org
• Explore the simple but effective techniques developed by Kaboom.org for conducting assetmapping efforts
• Asset Mapping can be simple
or more comprehensive
• Review: Asset Mapping Guidelines
• Based upon Identifying Community Assets and Resources by Bill Berkowitz and Eric Wadud
• Developed and shared by the “Community
Toolbox” - University of Kansas Work Group on
Health Promotion and Community Development
Visit the Community Tool Box website @
http://ctb.ku.edu
They encourages the sharing of their resources
and materials for building strong workforce development partnerships
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