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Fieldstone Alliance
Fine-tuning Your Collaboration for Lasting Success
Karen Ray
Nimble Collaboration
nonprofit
nonprofit collaboration
organizations
real-life applications
service integration collaborations
success
successful collaboration
three Rs
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- ISBN 9781630264512
- Dimensions: 216 x 279mm
- Publication Date: 31 Oct 2002
- Publisher: Turner Publishing Company
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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Let's face it, the collaboration process can be a pain in the neck. The Nimble Collaboration: Fine-Tuning Your Collaboration for Lasting Success, shows collaborations how to become leaner, more responsive, more flexible, and ultimately, more productive. In their bestselling book, Collaboration Handbook: Creating, Sustaining, and Enjoying the Journey, Michael Winer and Karen Ray describe how to form a successful collaboration. In The Nimble Collaboration, Ray guides existing partnerships into the next stage: becoming more effective. Part I presents the ""three Rs"" of nimble collaboration: results that are clearly defined, relationships that are deft, and a structure that is resilient. Readers will learn how to determine, describe, and evaluate the specific results everyone wants to achieve—and keep them at the heart of each step they take. The book shows readers how to build trust, reinforce roles, and avoid turf issues and hidden agendas. Part II walks through real-life applications in two typical collaborations: service integration collaborations, and complex problem-solving collaborations. Detailed case studies demonstrate nimbleness in action and give collaborations concrete problem-solving ideas. Throughout the book are samples, examples, and how-tos based on the author's many years of experience consulting with real people in real collaborations across the United States. A special section explains how to write the various documents that bind partners together on paper, including a memo of agreement and a formal governance agreement. Collaborations that involve government agencies, nongovernmental organizations, community-building groups, nonprofits, law enforcement, education, health, housing, arts, social services, business, foundation—you name it—will find hands-on help for making their collaboration satisfying and productive.
Karen Ray has almost twenty years of experience with new and existing collaborations. Previously, she was executive director of a literacy-focused agency mandated to collaborate by state and federal funders. As president of Karen Ray Associates, a consulting firm which specializes in training and organization development for government, community, and nonprofit agencies, collaboration is the theme of her work. She and Michael Winer partnered to write the Collaboration Handbook: Creating, Sustaining, and Enjoying the Journey, published by the Wilder Foundation in 1994.
