Five Good Ideas for building a sustainable and resilient collaboration
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It can be hard sustaining a collaboration because tackling community issues together creates challenges to partnership and momentum. But you can set up a collaboration for success. Focus on four areas—people, resources, process, and impact—and the factors that determine their quality, like leadership, funding, community engagement, and the ability to influence policy and systems that lead to collective change. When things do get hard (and they will), the collaboration’s resilience will be proven by its overall health and well-being, as well as its ability to adapt, shift, and change.    In this session, recorded live on May 8, 2023, Liz Weaver and Mike Des Jardins of the Tamarack Institute share stories and provide helpful ideas about how to make a collaboration more sustainable, resilient, and impactful. They discuss how collaborations can develop a sustainable approach during the early phases of their work. They also pose the question: What really needs to be sustained and how might this work?    [5:50] 1. Define what is a sustainable collaboration  [11:32 2. Focus on people, process, resources, and impact [16:42] 3. Centre equity in the design of sustainability [20:03] 4. Adapt to changing communities / collaboration [24:05] 5. Include funders in the process [27:05] Q & A    Download the session handout. Follow along with the transcript.    Presenter bios:     Liz Weaver is co-CEO at the Tamarack Institute.  Liz leads the Tamarack Learning Centre providing strategic direction for the design and development of learning activities. The focus of the Tamarack Le
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