Presented during the 2019 Bonner Summer Leadership Institute at Waynesburg University by Allison Schultz and Katie Zyniecki (Siena College). This workshop discussed strategies to fin, build, and maintain strong community partnerships.

1. Community Partnerships:
What Works and What Doesn’t?
Summer Leadership Institute 2019
Siena College Center for Academic Community Engagement
Allison Schultz, Director of Programs
Katherine Burt, AmeriCorps VISTA Fellow, Coordinator of Academic Partnerships

2. Community Connections
Thinking about developing and maintaining strong community
partnerships:
● What is going well on your campus? (Yellow Post-it)
● What is not working (Blue Post-it)
ACE and Partnerships in the NYS Capital Region

3. ACE Partnership Model
● Communication channels
● What does authentic partnership look like?
● What we have noticed about community partnerships
● Frames to use for developing and maintaining community
partnerships

4. SHINE Initiative
● Collective Impact
○ Common agenda
○ Shared measurement
○ Mutually reinforcing activities
○ Continuous communication
○ Backbone support
● Realized our model didn’t support any of these
● Community funder interested in looking at things differently
○ Shared resources/shared space study
○ SHINE

5. Partner Meeting/Annual Conference
● Conference and community engagement workshops replaced our
traditional partner meeting
○ More interesting topics
○ More engaging delivery
○ More active participation
○ More networking among community partners, faculty, administrators, students,
and VISTA Fellows

6. Innovation Around the Network
Let’s return to our original discussion of what works and what
doesn’t on your campus...

7. Small Group Discussion
● Why is this important? Why should we care?
● What can we do about it?
● How are we going to do it?

8. Report Out