A Guide to Collaboration: Working Models of Comprehensive Community Projects
By Joel Christie and Bill Locke
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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.
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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
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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