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Promoting
Networking, Coordination,
Cooperative Agreements and
Collaborative Arrangements Among
Organizations

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Why is it important for organizations
to work together?
When you have many groups with different views,
resources, and skills applying their intelligence and
strength to solve a problem together, the results
can be like the work of superheroes.

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Overview
• Ways organizations can work together.
• How to choose among relationships.
• Challenges that organizations confront when
working together.
• Building organizational relationships.

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What are ways organizations can work
together?
• Networking
• Coordination
• Cooperation
• Collaboration
• Multisector collaboration

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Networking
• A networking relationship includes exchanging
information to help each organization improve
• Networking requires a small amount of time and
yields great rewards
• A networking relationship can grow after initial
trust is developed.

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Coordination
• A coordinating relationship includes modifying
activities to provide better service.
• It requires more involvement, time, and trust than
networking.
• Results can significantly improve peoples lives?

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Cooperation
• Includes sharing information and resources and
making adjustments.
• It requires trust and time.
• Organizations have to let go of turf issues.
• Organizations share ownership, hassles, and
rewards.

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Collaboration
• Organizations help each other enhance their
capacities to do their jobs.
• People become partners rather than competitors
• Collaboration is the most work but the potential
for change can also be greatest.

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Multisector collaboration
• Organizations and citizens form a partnership.
• All parties give priority to the good of the
community.
• It has great rewards, but requires a great
investment.
• It requires trust, a need, and the will to make a
change.

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How do you choose among these
relationships?
• You want to choose an arrangement that will
accomplish your goals.
• You want to work out an arrangement that is
feasible.

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In choosing a relationship, consider:
• What are your goals?
• Which kind of relationship is necessary to
accomplish those goals?
• Are there resources?
• Is there sufficient trust and commitment to
support it?

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Challenges organizations confront
• The belief that individual effort is more beneficial
than cooperation.
• Mistrust.
• A lack of communication skills.
• Racism and other forms of discrimination.
• A lack of strong leadership.
• A sense of powerlessness.
• Funders sometimes require organizations to
collaborate in order to receive funds.

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How to build organizational relationships
• Involve stakeholders.
• Establish one-to-one relationships and build trust.
• Clarify goals.
• Decide on a relationship that makes sense.
• Establish ground rules.
• Learn how to listen.
• Build on points of agreement.
• Learn about each other's cultural group.
• Don't require organizations to give up their identities.
• Expect problems and disagreements.
• Celebrate success.