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Assessing Partnerships Organization
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Stage 1:
Designing the Partnership |
Stage 2:
Building on Collaboration |
Stage 3:
Sustaining the Partnership |
| Participation of multiple sectors |
Participation is limited to a few individuals, primarily key campus, staff, students, a few faculty, and the CBO director and/or volunteer coordinator.
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One or a combination of partnering organizations coordinates activities among partners. Partners identify common community issues and problems.
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Partnership activities among multiple organizations are coordinated in order to mobilize the relative strengths of each partner to meet common goals and objectives.
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| Clear organization and dynamic leadership |
There is no partnership organization to speak of. The partnership encompasses ad hoc projects involving individual CBOs and various campus constituencies with no coordination.
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The partnership organization takes the form of a task force or joint CBO-campus committee with regular meetings and shared communication among multiple partners.
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The partnership itself has a permanent organization with a full-time director and staff.
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| Integration into the mission and support systems of the partnering institutions |
Common values, such as service, are present in each partner’s individual mission statement, but the partnership itself as a value is not recognized.
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Partnership members articulate common mission and values and identify the values of the partnership per se.
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The partnership as an institution has a clearly defined mission statement. Commitment to the partnership is also reflected in the mission and values statements of the partnering members.
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