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Current Conversation Topics
Collaboration Benefits: What is collaboration? How do religious leaders get involved? Why to religious leaders get involved? Links to examples of coalitions with religious leader involvement. How can you get involved?
- Leaders Respond
Collaboration Success Factors: This report discusses five traits commonly identified in studies of successful coalitions. Future conversations will consider strategies for enhancing these traits in coalitions.
- Leaders Respond
Future Conversation Topics
Collaboration Challenges: This report discusses three common collaboration challenges: the challenge of shared entities, the challenge of power sharing, and the challenge of strange bedfellows. The report describes these challenges and suggestions for dealing with each of them.
Coalition Decisions: What are different options for making collective decisions? This conversation discusses consensus, majority rule and some creative alternatives.
Collaboration Focus: What is our purpose for working together? How do we frame a purpose to encourage cooperation and improve grant success? What are other factors to consider?
Collaboration Conditions: What are the rules (if any) for belonging to our coalition? What expectations (if any) should we place on one another as a condition for remaining a part of the coalition? What are the advantages and disadvantages to explicit conditions?
Recruiting and Retention: Who should be recruited? Why do people join? What leads people to contribute and stay?
Sustainability: How do we keep our coalition going? Should we keep it going? Religious leaders and religious organizations as civic patrons.
Coalition and Calling: How do religious leaders see coalition work as consistent with their calling? How do callings shape the ways that religious leaders participate?
Performance Measurement: What is it? Why do it? How can we do it?
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