Effective Collaboration and Strategic Alliance

A growing number of forward-looking organisations have come to see that the best way to fulfill their mission is to seek and build on collaborations wherever they can. Increasingly as groups become more skilled at self-assessment and strategic planning, the impetus to pursue one or more forms of collaboration comes from within the organisations themselves. They begin to understand that collaboration can be a vehicle for expansion into new areas of service requiring the resources of more than one organisation or to proactively address an emerging community issue. This workshop will describe models for collaboration that can be used to increase agency influence, share information and resources, enhance service delivery and quality, improve community visibility, raise funds, and more. Participants will have an opportunity to apply the collaboration models to case of their own choosing.