Collaboration

It is a process where two or more people or organizations work together to realize shared goals

Networking

forming business connections and contacts through informal social meetings

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.

Collaboration In 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

Patricia Talbot, RN, CNM, BHSA P. M. Talbot Enterprises

Impact100 Sonoma Creating Community Impact Work 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 10 th 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

Impact100 Sonoma 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

Impact100 Sonoma 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

Impact100 Sonoma Grant Program Calendar Nov 6Second 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 5-12Grant Chairs meet with Finalists Jun 22 Third Annual Meeting: Members select all grants recipients