Partnerships

• Comprehensive revitalization work will require the organization to build and maintain a vast network of partnerships with a wide variety of other organizations, institutions, and even informal neighborhood groups and associations.
• Doing so increases the need for the organization to have capacity to convene and facilitate interactions between these players, to maintain positive perceptions of itself and its accountability to the community, and to conduct constructive negotiations with partners in matters regarding organizational self-interest.
• See the partnerships section for ideas on building regional and local partnerships at the outset of the neighborhood stabilization process.
• Helpful reading on this topic includes:
  • Getting to Yes: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In. Roger Fisher and William Ury. 1991: Penguin Books.
  • The Collaboration Handbook: Creating, Sustaining, and Enjoying the Journey. Michael Winer and Karen Ray. 1994: Amherst Wilder Foundation.