Bay Area Examples of Partnership in Action

Bay Area Examples of Partnership in Action [document also attached]

TransAccess

  TransAccess is a nonprofit agency working in partnership with Silicon Valley businesses and the community to prepare people with disabilities for competitive employment. Through adaptive computer access technology and career transition services, TransAccess creates opportunities for significant advances in universal access, social integration and employment for people with disabilities.

http://www.transaccess.org/

 San Francisco School-to-Career Partnership

  Connecting school-based and work-based learning programs & arranging wage subsidies for youth employers.

http://www.sfstcp.org/

 San Francisco Information Technology Consortium

  A group of organizations committed to training low-income, San Francisco residents, with the basic & advanced level training needed to begin a successful career in Information Technology. Through the Consortium, clients can go from one organization to the next, to continually advance their training.

http://www.sfittraining.org/

 The DJ Project

  A partnership between Horizons Unlimited and local musicians and artists designed to inspire low-income youth through a dynamic blend of arts education, job readiness training, entrepreneurship and community service programming.

http://www.thedjproject.com/

The Taproot Foundation

  The Taproot Foundation works to bring together highly skilled teams of design and technology professionals to deliver high-quality service grants to nonprofits.

http://www.taprootfoundation.org/index.html

 Spark

 A partnership between KQED and BAVC combining the creative and production resources of both organizations to tap into the talent pool of the Bay Area-both in-front and behind the cameras.

http://www.kqed.org/spark/

 Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco

  Giving financial institutions, community-based organizations and government entities the tools they need to effectively address community development issues affecting low- and moderate-income individuals and communities.

http://www.frbsf.org/community/index.html

 :: General Partnership Resources & Case Studies ::

Pathways to Collaboration (funding opportunity – LOI due May 9, 2003)

  The Pathways to Collaboration workgroup, funded by the W. K. Kellogg Foundation, will give up to 12 community partnerships from across the United States a unique opportunity to explore exactly what makes a collaborative problem-solving process successful. We are seeking Letters of Intent from partnerships that have a record of success in using collaboration to address problems (in any area) that are important to people in their community, a spirit of curiosity about what made those successes possible, and an interest in participating in a rigorous and provocative learning experience.

**Due date for Letters of Intent from community partnerships: May 9, 2003**

http://www.pathwaystocollaboration.net/

 Meeting the Collaboration Challenge

  The free 86-page guide from the Drucker Foundation has a number of helpful worksheets and practical advice for any organization considering strategic alliances.

http://www.pfdf.org/collaboration/

 Community Partnerships Toolkit

  Courtesy of the W. K. Kellogg Foundation.

http://www.wkkf.org/Pubs/CustomPubs/CPtoolkit/CPToolkit/default.htm

 Twelve Steps for Effective Partnerships

  The Institute of Museum and Library Sciences' (IMLS) True Needs, True Partners represents the culmination and analysis of fifteen partnerships between schools and museums. In this overview of the publication, elements defined by IMLS as essential for successful partnerships are identified.

http://www.benton.org/Practice/Features/truepartners.html

 Pro-Choice Partnership Pays Off

  The partnership between the National Abortion and Reproductive Rights Action League Foundation and Planned Parenthood on the Pro Choice Voice Project resulted in 1 million new pro-choice supporters. This article examines the lessons learned in maintaining a working partnership between these two organizations.

http://www.benton.org/Practice/Features/naralppfa.html

 Building Online Communities: Transforming Assumptions Into Success

  Online communities, including the assumptions a lot of people have about them.

http://www.benton.org/Practice/Community/assumptions.html

 Win-Win Cleaning, Inc.

  An interesting model that offers entrepreneurial opportunities to the working poor in Boston's Vietnamese community. Win-Win provides marketing and business development services, as well as operational consulting, to its members, a group of employee-owned, community-based commercial cleaning companies.

http://www.winwincleaning.com/winwin/

The TFA/SkillSoft Workforce Development Initiative

  Technology For All has partnered with SkillSoft, the E-Learning company and several CTCs to bring distance technology education to everyone.

http://www.techforall.org/subpages/workforceinit.htm

 KDE Edutainment Project

  Virtual partnership of Artists, Designers, Developers, Musicians, Parents, Teachers, and Children all working together to develop open-source educational software that will be available for free.

http://edu.kde.org/stuff/get_involved.php

 Jobs For the Future

  Through partnerships with states and communities, national and local foundations, and other organizations, JFF accelerates opportunities for people to advance in education and careers.

http://www.jff.org/jff/about