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3 Steps to Revitalize Your Community Coalition
Shelisa Howard-Martinez, Director of Community Engagement
Wednesday, January 14, 2015: 10-11am
Community Coalitions
Community Coalitions
Community Coalitions
Community Coalitions
Community Coalitions
Community Coalitions
Desired Outcomes
1. 3 concrete steps to revitalize your coalition
1. Promising practices for building an effective stakeholder engagement approach
1. Share collaboration tools and templates
3 Concrete Steps
1. Regularly assess your coalition
• Assessing your partnership at least once a year is a promising practice
• Opportunity for entire group to identify emerging challenges & opportunities
• Use the assessment design process to enhance engagement with your partners
Assessing Your Coalition
1. Focus on the functions/ types of support that you provide to your coalition
2. Ask for recommendations that will increase member engagement & not just place extra work on your plate
3. Consider using a neutral third party
2. Build-in practices and agreements
Partnership/ coalition agreement:• Defines how your coalition will work together• Is different than bylaws or a charter• All coalition partners should participate in the creation
of the Agreement and adopt the Agreement in some way
• This agreement is a working document and should be tweaked as needed
Partnership/ Coalition Agreement
Components:• Guiding principles• Structure• Partner roles & responsibilities• Decision-making process• Conflict resolution
3. Develop an actionable plan for your coalition
• A plan that will specifically speak to your coalition’s collaboration, direction, and sustainability
• Strategic plan or a modified one
• May need third-party neutral facilitator
Stakeholder Engagement
Stakeholder Mapping
Who is not at the table?
Think of in terms of stakeholder groups & organizations
What is the approach
Stakeholder Approach
Stakeholder Approach Process
Who within the organization is your coalition going to approach
Who is the most appropriate person from your coalition to do the approach
What are 2-3 key messages that all coalition members will use to invite in new members
Crafting Stakeholder Approach Messages
Overall purpose of your coalition - What are trying to accomplish together?
Why are you approaching the stakeholder - What do they bring to the table: expertise/ perspective, relationships, energy, that your coalition needs?
What are you asking the stakeholder to do - Become a member of the coalition, serve in advisory capacity, to bring in voices/ perspectives/ relationships that the coalition doesn’t have but needs?
Stakeholder Engagement - Orientation
Do you need a small packet?
How about hosting a lunch n learn?
Avoid frustrating existing members and/ or making your meetings appear to be inefficient to the newer ones
Tools & Templates
www.caresharehealth.org
Peer-to-peer support & learning via the HCP list serve
THANK YOU!
