Working in Collaboration

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Working in Collaboration

• Sisters of Charity Foundation of Cleveland
• Humans Services Institute
• March 28, 2008

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Bring a Unique Voice to the Table

• Faith-based funder
• Long history of commitment to those living in
  poverty

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The Call to Collaboration

• MISSION
• Improve lives of those most in need
• VISION
• Improve our communitys capacity
• to alleviate poverty

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Guiding Principles

• COLLABORATION
• Working with others to maximize impact
• CONNECTION
• Listening to others and applying our knowledge
• INITIATIVE
• Building and evaluating innovative systems of
  intervention
• LEVERAGING OF ASSETS
• Cultivating strategic partnerships to combine
  resources and expand our reach

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Collaboration integral to Strategic Focus Areas
and Community Partnerships

• Strategic Focus Areas (70)
• Community Partnerships (30)
• --Collaborations
• --SOC Ministries and Affiliated Organizations
• --Good Samaritan Program
• -- Capacity Building

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Funder Involvement

• Convener
• Initiating a collaboration
• Founding member
• One of several funders forming a collaboration
• Significant Support Leadership
• Financial support opens door to leadership
• Support Participation
• Joining a larger group, but still connecting

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Convener

• Connect Initiate Leverage
  

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• GCABC became a best practice
• and leveraged national funding

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Founding Member

• Health Foundation of Greater Cincinnati
• Cleveland Foundation
• Gund Foundation
• Mt. Sinai Foundation
• Saint Lukes Foundation
• Sisters of Charity Foundation of Cleveland
• Sisters of Charity Foundation of Canton

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HPIO Achievements

• -- Only independent, research-based honest
  broker for health policy in Ohio
• -- Numerous publications presenting data/analysis
  on health policy
• -- Forums on health quality, information
  technology, local coverage initiatives
• -- William Hayes, Ph.D., Exec. Director, recently
  appointed to State Health Coverage Institute

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Significant Support Leadership

• LONG TERM ECONOMIC TRANSFORMATION IN NORTHEAST
  OHIO

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SHARED ASPIRATIONS

• SOC Foundations
• Emphasis on low-income, urban population
• Strive to connect and share knowledge
• Canton Cleveland
• 2 communities/1 region

• Fund for Economic Future
• Low income people in cities hit hard by
  economic deterioration
• Committed to inclusion (Voices Choices)
• Advance Northeast Ohio

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Level of Support Leadership

• Two Sisters of Charity Foundations share seat on
  the Funders Committee
• Additional leveraging through leadership
• Randy McShepard, Vice Chair (for RPM)
• Bill Joseph, engaged in advocacy
• Sue Krey, chaired Diversity Task Force
• Vicki Conley, Oversight Committee (Voices)

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Support Participation
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Collaboration within our Strategic Objectives
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Health Literacy Collaborations

• Literacy Health Providers
• Libraries, health learners
• Coalition of neighborhood based providers
• School health nutritionist/RN
• Health Department/Hospital Literacy Provider

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Key to Successful Partnerships

• Creating a shared base of knowledge.
• Identifying shared goals and problems.
• Addressing specific needs of both entities.
• Securing support from top administration.
• Collecting evidence to measure progress.
• Using pre-existing relationships wherever
  possible.

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Key to Successful Partnerships

• Creating a sense of trust.
• Preparing partners for a lot of work.
• Launching the project with an event.
• Seizing the opportunity to focus on systemic
  issues.
• Engaging in joint planning and goal setting.
• Adapted from a Guide to Forming Partnerships
  between Health Care Providers and Adult Education
  Programs written for the Literacy Assistance
  Center of New York City by Sue Kaplan, Clinical
  Associate Professor of Public Policy at the
  Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public
  Service, New York University.