Exploring Collaborative Relationships Krista Petty

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Exploring Collaborative RelationshipsKrista
Petty
704-795-8631 krista_at_backyardimpact.com www.backyar
dimpact.com
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Church to Church Collaborations
Survey Says Hartford Institute for
Religion Research National Survey
4 in 10 churches
served together
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Church to Church Collaborations

• Leadership Network (www.leadnet.org) surveyed 75
  Churches from the Externally Focused Church
  Leadership Community.
• We work together most often with
• Food programs (87)
• Emergency assistance (75)
• Children youth programs (70)
• Housing programs (66)
• Prison ministry (54)
• Medical dental programs (37)
• Special one-day project work (21)
• Immigrant ministries (16)

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Collaboration Continuum

Stage 1 Philanthropic Stage 2
Transactional Stage 3 Integrative The
Collaboration Challenge by James Austin
(Jossey-Bass 2000) Meeting the Collaboration
Challenge Work book available for free download
at www.leadertoleader.org
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Collaboration Continuumfrom The Collaboration
Challenge, by J. Austin

• Stage 1 Philanthropic
• Collaboration in the philanthropic stage is
  highly circumscribed in terms of resources
  deployed
• and points of interaction.- James Austin
• Few meetings and fewer individuals involved from
  top-level leadership.
• Expectations and investments are usually pretty
  narrowly defined.
• Great starting place, especially if it is an
  organization that has a very differing philosophy
  but you agree on a solution to a common problem.

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Collaboration Continuum

• Stage 2 Transactional
• In the transactional stage, organizations carry
• out their resource exchanges through specific
• activities. Engagements of the partners is more
• active and the value flow more significantly
  two-way.
• -James Austin, The Collaboration Challenge, pg 22
• Leaders exchange technical expertise
• Exchange resources to complete or communicate for
  a common project.
• Combine people to have greater impact.

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Collaboration Continuum

• Stage 3 Integrative
• Organizations begin to look like a highly
• integrated joint venture that is central to both
• organizations strategies. They have a
• mutual mission relationship. Austin, pg 26
• Extend beyond a project to meeting the long-term
  needs
• Intensified staff and lead volunteer interactions
  
• Creation of processes and procedures to manage
  complexity
• Broadened scope of joint activities and ventures
• Increased need for committed resources of time
  and money
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Lincoln Village Ministry
Southwood PCA www.lincolnvillageministry.com
Philanthropic overhead projectors, donated
supplies Transactional churches worked on
building projects, created a state of the art
science lab and began homeroom mom
program Integrative full-on tutoring volunteer
attends staff meetings, share files and even
have an office. Students reached 2011 academic
goals by 2007!
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Caring about Katrina in Florence, AL
Big StormBig problemsBig SolutionsBig
Outcomes Created a VOAD Needed synergized,
real-time communication system 50 churches and
agencies working together Tracking assistance
given Reporting on needs trends Sharing
information daily Working smarter Alerting
each other Helping more people with less
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Florence, AL Charity Tracker
Churches
Other Community Agencies
American Red Cross
Salvation Army
United Way
Formed a VOAD (Voluntary Organizations Active in
Disaster)
Worked with Simon Solutions to create a better
communication tool
Charity Tracker Network a networked coalition of
50 agencies churches
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Ask the collaborative question
Centered Set
Bounded Set
Do you believe like I believe?
Do you care about what I care about?
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Into the Meeting Room


Actions
Attitudes
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ACTIONS

Knowledge What does our group need to know to do
what we need to do? Both parties in collaboration
need to be willing to do research. Understanding
Is the knowledge we have in context of the
problem we have to solve? Both parties in
collaborative efforts must be willing to
understand the knowledge to create a
solution. Decision/Action Do we have the
ability to make the right decisions and take
action on them? For collaboration to successfully
happen, people must be empowered to take action.
www.WildWorksGroup.com

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ATTITUDES

Actions take longer if the right attitudes are
not in the room!
Presence Are each of us disciplined enough to
bring our full selves into the meeting? Sense of
Discovery Do we have a desire to learn,
experience and achieve more together than
apart? Work to Win Do each of us at the table
have a results-oriented attitude? This is being
willing to do whatever it takes to get to
solutions and understanding. www.WildWorksGrou
p.com
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People Projects Money Things Depth of
Engagement
Yearly Quarterly Monthly
Weekly Frequency of Engagement
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Fulfillment
Discomfort
Externally Focused Depth of Engagement
Money Things Projects
People
Yearly Quarterly Monthly
Weekly
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For a copy of this power point, email
krista_at_backyardimpact.com


The Kingdom work is bigger than any one of us,
so it needs every one of us. -Daniel Bernard