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    A Guide to Collaboration: Working Models of Comprehensive Community Projects
    A Guide to Collaboration: Working Models of Comprehensive Community Projects
    A Guide to Collaboration: Working Models of Comprehensive Community Projects
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    A Guide to Collaboration: Working Models of Comprehensive Community Projects

    By Joel Christie and Bill Locke

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    There is a time when worlds must come together for the greater good. That is the time when a community decides to undertake a project that is bigger than the mandate of any one organization. Such a Comprehensive Community Project (CCP) requires a partnership involving key stakeholders who will direct and govern the CCP. As such, they must provide direction, monitoring, support and accountability, in order to develop, implement and keep the project on track. They must also champion the project, ensure that it has the resources it needs, and link the project to a wide network with high-level influence.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAuthorHouse
    Release dateMay 23, 2012
    ISBN9781477208540
    A Guide to Collaboration: Working Models of Comprehensive Community Projects
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    Joel Christie

    Bill Locke is the founder of Capacity Builders, a Calgary-based consulting company that has provided strategic development services to over 200 community organizations, foundations and government departments around the world. He and his wife Laura have three grown children. For more information about Bill and Capacity Builders, visit www.capacitybuilders.org -- Dr. Christie has over 40 years of direct senior and executive management experience and specializes in the development of organizations and the management of strategic change in human service organizations. He has a Masters degree in Community Development and a Doctorate on Organization Development and the Management of Strategic Change in complex organizations. He and his wife Mavis live in Calgary, Alberta.

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      A Guide to Collaboration - Joel Christie

      © 2012 by Bill Locke and Joel Christie, PhD. All rights reserved.

      No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted by any means without the written permission of the author.

      Published by AuthorHouse 05/18/2012

      ISBN: 978-1-4772-0853-3 (sc)

      ISBN: 978-1-4772-0854-0 (e)

      Library of Congress Control Number: 2012908962

      Any people depicted in stock imagery provided by Thinkstock are models, and such images are being used for illustrative purposes only.

      Certain stock imagery © Thinkstock.

      Because of the dynamic nature of the Internet, any web addresses or links contained in this book may have changed since publication and may no longer be valid. The views expressed in this work are solely those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of the publisher, and the publisher hereby disclaims any responsibility for them.

      Table of Contents

      Executive Summary

      From Plan to Reality

      Rationale for this Guide

      Governing

      A New Mindset: Comprehensive Community Project

      Partnership

      Partnership Structure

      The Importance of Process: Strategies and Methods

      Four Structural Models of Governance and Management of Comprehensive Community Project

      1.    Coordinated Work Model

      2. Constellation Model Driven by Local Communities

      3. Franchise Model

      4. Conglomerate Model

      Coalescence Spectrum: Six Levels ofAutonomy and Interdependence

      Coalescence Checklist - Diagnostic and Developmental Tool

      Memorandum of Understanding (MOU)

      Partnership Scale

      Roadmap: An Overall Process for Decision-Making, Quality Affirmation, Supervision and Implementation

      Conclusion

      Bibliography

      Appendix-Tools and Other Resources

      Executive Summary

      There is a time when worlds must come together for the greater good. That is the time when a community decides to undertake a project that is bigger than the mandate of any one organization. Such a Comprehensive Community Project (CCP) requires a partnership involving key stakeholders who will direct and govern the CCP. As such, they must provide direction, monitoring, support and accountability, in order to develop, implement and keep the project on track. They must also champion the project, ensure that it has the resources it needs, and link the project to a wide network with high-level influence.

      That partnership engages complementary organizations in the fulfillment of a common vision and mission. A CCP is too large and complex to be conducted by any one party alone, or by a diverse set of parties working separately - or worse, in competition with one another. Working together, they can share strengths, leverage resources and multiply their efforts.

      If the leader of an organization sits as a Director on the Governing Unitof the partnership, he or she must be prepared to act in the best interests of the Partnership while in that role, even if it involves some sacrifice to some aspect of his or her organization in order to achieve the greater good and realize the vision of the Partnership.

      Most successful partnerships have a full-time CCP Manager, who acts much like an Executive Officer in conjunction with the Governing Unit to oversee the CCP. Otherwise, the project will flounder with each of the stakeholders attempting to run the CCP from the side of their

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