• 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