1. Collaboration

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

3. Networking

4. forming business connections and contacts through informal social meetings

5. Collaboration

6. 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.

7. 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."

8. Collaboration  Idea  Need  Sustainable  Collective Impact

9. involving measurable results that the collaborators want to achieve

10. evidence-based practices for problem solving increases the chance of success

11. it takes time

12.  Forming  Storming  Norming  Performing The Tuckman Model

14.  Guidelines  Strategic planning  Agreed upon goals & work plan  Leadership  Subcommittees  Movement  Collection of Data  Outcomes  Celebration

15. assign a coordinator

16. tell me about your organization’s collaboration relationships  create a document  keep it updated

17. start now

18. 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

19. Patricia Talbot, RN, CNM, BHSA P. M. Talbot Enterprises www.pmtalbot.com patricia@pmtalbot.com 707 921-9922 www.pmtalbot.com patricia@pmtalbot.com

20. www.impact100sonoma.org20 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

21. www.impact100sonoma.org21 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

22. www.impact100sonoma.org22 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

23. www.impact100sonoma.org23 Impact100 Sonoma Grant Program Calendar 2012 - 2013 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