WORKING TOGETHER

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WORKING TOGETHER
Ensuring the Viability of the Government/Non-Profi
t Partnership to Serve British Columbians
October 12, 2007
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This Presentation

• Introduces a follow up initiative to the May 30,
  2007 Roundtable Strengthening the Relationship
  Government/Non-Profit relations in British
  Columbia
• Invites expressions of interest in Task Force
  participation
• Communicates commitment and rough meeting
  time-lines involved in Task Force participation

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May 30, 2007 Joint Roundtable

• Co-Chaired by Deputy Minister, Ministry of Public
  Safety and Solicitor General, and CEO, Vancouver
  Foundation
• Hosted by the School of Public Administration at
  University of Victoria and the Center for
  Non-profit Management
• 84 attendees, senior officials from government,
  non-profits, funding agencies and foundations,
  non-profit sector (NPS) support centers

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Roundtable Highlights Context

• Government
• More emphasis on developing policy and defining
  outcomes less on direct government service
  delivery
• Growing reliance on 3rd party service providers
• Shift toward citizen centered service that is
  accessible, responsive, community based,
  networked
• Recognition that complex social problems (e.g.,
  homelessness, crime reduction, child welfare)
  require a response that joins up across
  traditional sub-sector boundaries
• Increased emphasis on performance based
  accountability and value for money
• Funding focuses on service delivery and outcomes
• Increasing public and media scrutiny and client
  expectations government is accountable
  regardless who delivers the service

• NPS
• Need to adapt to new provincial service delivery
  model
• Shifting and increasing demand, e.g.,
  Federal/Provincial devolution in housing,
  employment, immigration
• Multiple policies, expectations and
  accountabilities Federal Provincial
  Municipal
• Getting and keeping staff and volunteers
• Tension among tax policy, non profit/charitable
  status and the pressure to become more
  entrepreneurial
• Growing competition for scarce funding
• Adapting to new alliances within the NPS and with
  business
• Capacity challenges business expertise,
  sustaining core administration and infrastructure
• Going beyond service delivery - desire to
  preserve role as a voice in a healthy civil
  society

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Roundtable HighlightsShared Views and Interests

• Broad objectives
• provide community and client services
• produce tangible positive results
• Need to sustain a capable NPS to accomplish these
  objectives
• Recognition of the inherent advantages and values
  that the NPS brings to the table (such as
  community linkages and engagement, volunteerism)
• Sense that there are some potential threats and
  challenges three core themes

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Roundtable Highlights Core Themes

• WORKING TOGETHER
• Can government and the non-profit sector work
  better together to
• understand and respond to strategic needs and
  pressures
• adapt to change
• align policies and priorities
• plan and deliver service in a multi faceted
  approach to address complex problems and be more
  client centered
• What are the terms of engagement in areas of the
  relationship beyond service delivery, e.g.,
  consultation, advocacy?
• What structures, agreements and processes might
  better support working together in the long term?

• PROCUREMENT,
• DELIVERY, PERFORMANCE
• MEASUREMENT
• Are there ways to streamline the diversity and
  complexity of procurement and performance
  measurement requirements while continuing to
  ensure that British Columbians receive full
  value?
• How do funding models and contract terms affect
  long-term viability? What are the best
  practices?
• How do we best balance the need for NPS
  consultation in policy and service design with
  the need to preserve procurement integrity?

• NPS CAPACITY
• SUSTAINABILITY
• What capacity and support is needed in the NPS?
• What support is available in BC?
• What are the most efficient and effective
  approaches to build capacity and provide support?
• Are there efficiencies to leverage or gaps to
  fill in BC?
• What are the options to sustain core
  administrative capacity and infrastructure?

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The Next Step

• Joint government/NPS initiative
• Develop pragmatic options to ensure the
  long-range viability of the government NPS
  partnership in serving British Columbians
• Examine options to
• enhance the way we work and plan together
• enhance the way we acquire, deliver and achieve
  value for services
• enhance and sustain NPS capacity

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Structure

• Three joint and co-chaired NPS/Government Task
  Forces, one on each core theme
• Reporting to a joint Steering Committee
  co-chaired by the co-chairs of the original
  Roundtable
• Report out to a second Roundtable in the Spring
  of 2008

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Roles and Commitment
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Roles and Commitment
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Roles and Commitment
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Roles and Commitment
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Deliverables

• Task Force on Working Together
• Backgrounder reviewing the research, practices in
  BC and practices elsewhere on governance,
  principles, joint planning, structures and
  processes within and between government and the
  NPS
• Discussion paper to be circulated for the Spring
  Roundtable, narrowing the options to those that
  are needed and will work in BC

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Deliverables

• Task Force on Procurement, Delivery and
  Performance Measurement
• Backgrounder on government-NPS procurement,
  delivery and performance measurement practices in
  BC
• Backgrounder reviewing the research and practices
  elsewhere
• Discussion paper to be circulated for the Spring
  Roundtable, integrating the two backgrounders and
  narrowing the options to those that are needed
  and will work in BC

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Deliverables

• Task Force on NPS Capacity and Sustainability
• Backgrounder reviewing the research, practices in
  BC and practices elsewhere vis a vis NPS capacity
  building and support
• Discussion paper, to be circulated for the Spring
  Roundtable, narrowing the options to those that
  are needed and will work in BC

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Timelines

• First Steering Committee Meeting (early November
  07)
• First Task Force meetings (late November 07)
• Second Task Force Meetings (late Jan 08)
• Second Steering Committee meeting (mid - Feb 08)
• Third Task Force meetings (late Mar 08
• Third Steering Committee meeting (mid Apr 08)
• Discussion papers to Roundtable participants
  (early May 08)
• Follow Up Roundtable (end May 08)

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Contact
If you have questions or are interested in
participating in a Task Force please
contact Mark Medgyesi Executive Director,
Strategic Initiatives Ministry of Public Safety
and Solicitor General 250-356-1822 mark.medgyesi_at_
gov.bc.ca