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Transylvania County Collaboration

History1910-2005

• A “value added product”& “failure not an option” spawns – Collaboration

• The Great Clergy Scam Spawns “Sharing House”

A forward looking board plans for :Inclusiveness

Case – Management & Benefits Enrollment

Dad’s Job

Transylvania County

CollaborationHistory

1955 – United Way of Transylvania County

1981 - The Great Clergy Scam Spawns “Sharing House”

2005 - A forward looking board plans for :Inclusiveness

Case – Management & Benefits Enrollment

1981 - The Great Clergy Scam

Spawns Sharing House

After the third Scam Artist gets $200 fromA clergy member and the board

Has to pay it.Lib Provence gets the churches to

Collaborate

Sharing House 1981Brevard, NC

2005-2010 2005 - Sharing House -

Roundtable monthly meeting.All county non-profits invited – anyone

welcome“Open meeting philosophy”

2009 – United Way and Transylvania collaborative

TRAINInformation Sharing & Refferal

Management for Transylvania County non-profits

“No wrong door” approachThe Haven

Sharing House Roundtable

Regular meetingsNo hierarchy

No “sacred cows” All participants equal

Failure not an option

Guiding Principles

Client FocusedSimplicityTeamwork

HolisticAccountable

Inclusive

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Coming together is a beginning.

Keeping together is progress. Working together is success.

-Henry Ford