1. Overview of CI Strategy for Collaboration and Partnerships

2. Who Are Our Potential Partners?  Financial supporters —Individuals, public sector, for-profit business sector, foundations, etc.  Public and private sector partners collaborating on program implementation  Individuals and institutional partners providing strategic interventions

3. What is Our Current Strategy?  CI focuses on working through partners.  A majority of our funds will be expensed through partners

4. Marine Examples CI Marine Program Partner Statistics: Seascapes:  BHS: 11 Partners $521,728 in grants  SSS: 29 Partners $1,238,462 in grants  ETPS: 31 Partners $2,578,799 Total: $4,338,989 (2006-2007) Grants MMAS:  Over 50 Partner Organizations  Over 100 Researchers  $6,080,000 in grant money over 4 years (2 previous years, plus the next 2 years) Total: $1,520,000/year

5. What are the Benefits of the Strategy?  We are able to achieve conservation outcomes at a scale we can not achieve alone?  We can have a growing base of collaborators in fostering change?  This is a strategy for sustainability of conservation effort?

6. Other Benefits?  We can leverage funding because our donor community is attracted to our working with partners.  Including other BINGOS.

7. Other Benefits?  Does our strategy for building the capacity of partners work?  By building their capacity to conduct programs?  By building their capacity to attract funding independently?  Do we actually invest in building capacity or usually just provide experience in project implementation?

8. What Challenges are Presented by the Strategy?  We are faced with managing an ever-expanding granting and oversight process?  We must evolve internal standards and procedures to accommodate such growth and change?  How do we select the right partners?

9. Other Challenges?  How to determine needed field presence adequate to maintain CI interest and to ensure successful implementation without eroding the partnership strategy?  How do we maintain donor and partner focus on the outcomes?  How do we demonstrate value-added to donors for CI re- granting when they observe they would provide funding to partners directly?

10. Thank You