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“With Paradigm Shift Studio’s
leadership, we thought more about the possibilities regarding
collaborations: We’re forming more formal agreements and
are presently engaged in a merger with two other organizations.”
Val Ferlis, Director of Development – Good Samaritan
Service Center for the Homeless |
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Community Partnerships
Understanding how to create the community partnerships some funders require may be overwhelming, but it is also the key securing additional resources and maximizing your impact. Paradigm Shift Studio, llc helps your organization identify strategic partners and create a plan for win-win relationships.
Let Paradigm Shift Studio, llc help you:
- Foster and Create Community Partnerships
- Develop Collaborations that Work
Case Study: Multi-Agency
Collaboration: Strengthening Services, Maximizing Resources
The Situation
The Lutheran Foundation of St. Louis wanted to forge a collaborative
community among six Lutheran non-profit social service agencies.
The Foundation knew collaboration would strengthen social services
and maximize funding resources among the agencies, but its previous
attempt stalled, leaving just one of the six agencies open to a
full merger. The Foundation turned to Paradigm Shift Studio.
What We Did
Paradigm Shift Studio conducted a Collaborative Appreciative Inquiry,
engaging over 200 stakeholders from the six agencies. Paradigm’s
project guided the agencies to:
- Identify each agency’s strengths and the role they could
play in collaborative efforts;
- Define and visualize the roles constructive collaboration could
play in encouraging their organizational and inter-organizational
effectiveness;
- Increase awareness of each agency’s mission, vision, and
strengths throughout the Lutheran community;
Outcomes
The Collaborative Appreciative Inquiry immediately yielded several
significant outcomes that built agency capacity, both individually
and collectively, including:
- The creation of a common language for collaboration models
that all agencies desired and could use;
- The education of all the Executive Directors and Boards of Directors
on the forms of collaboration and the strengths each agency possessed,
and the strengthening of relationships among executive directors,
staff members, and board members at each agency;
- The creation of a common mission and purpose and increased awareness
of services that served the St. Louis and Lutheran communities;
Afterward, three of the five agencies actively collaborated on funding
opportunities, volunteers and public awareness. They secured a collaborative
grant to hire a staff person to work with local congregations on planned
giving and recruiting and training youth and adult leaders from throughout
the community. Through these collaborative efforts the three agencies
created an effective and efficient partnership and began merging into
one stronger agency, Humanitri. |
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