Agency Partnerships

Lesson Learned Guiding Principles

  • Partnerships can be defined basically as establishing mutual or common interest and working together to accomplish goals; they can be voluntary or mandated…

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Lesson Learned Key Success Factors in Agency Partnerships

  • Actively seek out partnerships as a way to strengthen both current and future services.  Often the beginnings of good and lasting partnerships happen by one organization taking the initiative to find a compatible partner.

  • Incorporate partnerships as a key principle in your service delivery model.  This instils a culture of looking for partnerships on a regular basis and provides an opportunity to try out partnerships slowly rather than trying to form them in the midst of developing a program model under tight timeframes…

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Food For Thought

Build relational capacity in your organization, so that your agency will be “partnership ready” should the opportunity arise on short notice.  Network on an ongoing basis among agencies in your own and other sectors to form relationships that may lead you to potential partners that you would otherwise not be familiar with.

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Notes from the Field

“The key to any successful partnership that Job Skills has formed in the past nine years… has been compatibility of mission and vision as well as the type of organization, i.e. not for profit.  Corporate ‘sponsor’ partnerships have been utilized on an ‘event’ basis, not for supplementing program funding.”

Job Skills, Keswick

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