Welcome to Navigating Collaboration

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Welcome to Navigating Collaboration

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Navigating Collaboration

• A Crash Course in Connecting
• with the Community
• Definitions

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Navigating Collaboration Series

• MCR Collaboration Working Group
• Five Topics over six months
• All sessions are held at 100MT/200CT and will
  be recorded and archived http//nnlm.gov/mcr/resou
  rces/community/collaboration.html
• Keys for Partnership - November 11
• Strategies for Overcoming Barriers January 26
• Funding - February 3
• Lessons Learned - March 22

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Presenters

• Kathy Tacke, Director of Community Impact for
  United Way of Southwest Wyoming
• Siobhan Champ-Blackwell, NN/LM MCR Community
  Outreach Liaison

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Resources Used

• The Collaboration Primer,The Health Research and
  Educational Trust (HRET)
• http//www.hret.org/hret/programs/content/colpri.p
  df
• Partnership Resource Center, Forest Service
• http//tinyurl.com/yze642r
• What is Community? A Sociological Perspective
• http//www.scn.org/cmp/whatcom.htm
• Poll

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Objectives

• Gain a better understanding of terminology used
  when discussing collaboration and partnerships
• Explore what community means

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WHAT IS COMMUNITY?

• The Nature of Communities
• Relativity
• Geography
• Demography
• A Community has Fuzzy Boundaries
• Need to define
• Communities Can be Within Communities
• United Way Example

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Six Dimensions of Culture

• Six Dimensions of Culture
• Technological
• Economic
• Political
• Institutional (social)
• Aesthetic-value
• Belief-conceptual

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Dimensions of Community

• Geography of the Community
• Demography of the Community
• Technological Dimension
• Economic Dimension
• Political Dimension
• Social / Institutional Dimension
• Ideological / Values Dimension
• Conceptual / Worldview Dimension

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Working Together
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Networking

• Basic and Informal
• Minimal level of trust required
• Limited time requirement
• Exchange of information
• Inform

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Networking Examples

• Participate in a health fair
• While there, stopping at all the booths to say
  hello to all the other vendors
• Attend a local meeting around a health issue, for
  example the cancer health disparities network
• Attend a state or regional conference
• Other ideas?

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Outcomes of Networking

• Identification of key contacts in other
  organizations
• Increase in shared understanding of each other
• Builds a foundation for going to higher levels of
  time/trust/turf

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Coordinating

• Harmonizing activities or operations
• Done to reduce redundancies
• Requires time and trust from all parties
• Still no crossover on turf
• Consult

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Examples of Coordination

• Alternate hosting of classes or meetings
• Share a booth at a health fair
• Coordinate an event one group hosts location
  while the other provides speaker
• Other examples?

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Outcomes of Coordinating

• Bridge building between groups
• Understand each other on a working level
• Increased communication between groups

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Cooperating

• Adds in the element of crossing into each others
  turf.
• Sharing Resources
• MOUs, shared staff, client, etc
• Involve

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Examples of Cooperating

• Share a booth at a health fair, but each
  organization takes different times
• The PSRML and the MCRML share the technology
  liaison position
• Co-teaching a class like todays class!
• Other examples?

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Outcomes of Cooperating

• There is a deeper understanding of each
  organization a shared sense of mission
• There are formal ties between groups
• Often there are feedback mechanisms that ensure
  the groups stay connected and communicating

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Collaborating

• Recognizes the expertise each organization brings
  to the table
• Risks, rewards and benefits are shared
• Joint leadership
• Common budget
• Specific plan of roles and responsibilities
• It is an ongoing process
• Partnership relationship to achieve meaningful
  goals

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Examples of Collaboration

• The library hires a staff person who is embedded
  in the community organization
• The partnership together writes a grant
  application to fund a project
• Other examples?

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Outcomes of Collaboration

• Resources are multiplied because overlap of
  efforts are reduced
• More can be accomplished in the community
• The two organizations are stronger individually
  because they support each others efforts
• Each group can report back to governing boards on
  positive outcomes

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United Way of Southwest Wyoming Collaboration
Example

• Community Impact Process
• Focus Groups
• Transition Process
• Outcomes and Goals
• Solutions Process
• Councils
• Community Partners
• Funding

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Advance the Common Good
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Thanks!!!

• Remember the website http//nnlm.gov/mcr/resources
  /community/collaboration.html
• Poll on objectives
• Gain a better understanding of terminology used
  when discussing collaboration and partnerships
• Explore what community means