Exploring Not For Profit Efficiencies in Golden & CSRD Area A
Next Steps
Building on the lessons learned from Phase 1 of Exploring Efficiency Opportunities within Non Profits in Golden & Area A, Phase 2 – ‘Community Coordination,’ will build the community’s social services through assessing, aligning and developing it’s non profit organizations.
While groups of organizations will be developed initially, the end goal will be to create a ‘community team or board’ and a community coordinator role.
Working back from this end, a path and a number of meetings and courses will be created and hosted locally in order to educate and equip local non profits with the tools to come together.
The biggest challenge in collaboration is the perception that groups and individuals will be giving up power. However, once local groups and individuals see the great good that can be accomplished with others’ involvement and the assurance that they can play a role in a solution, then they can come together.
These are not new ideas, but rather old ideas from groups here (like the Early Childhood Development Coalition) other places (like the Jasper Community Team Model) that can be adapt to our unique community, challenges and goals.
Building on the lessons learned from Phase 1 of Exploring Efficiency Opportunities within Non Profits in Golden & Area A, Phase 2 – ‘Community Coordination,’ will build the community’s social services through assessing, aligning and developing it’s non profit organizations.
While groups of organizations will be developed initially, the end goal will be to create a ‘community team or board’ and a community coordinator role.
Working back from this end, a path and a number of meetings and courses will be created and hosted locally in order to educate and equip local non profits with the tools to come together.
The biggest challenge in collaboration is the perception that groups and individuals will be giving up power. However, once local groups and individuals see the great good that can be accomplished with others’ involvement and the assurance that they can play a role in a solution, then they can come together.
These are not new ideas, but rather old ideas from groups here (like the Early Childhood Development Coalition) other places (like the Jasper Community Team Model) that can be adapt to our unique community, challenges and goals.
Next Steps: Phase 2 - 'Community Coordination'
1. Plan and host a series of sub-sector meetings.2. Survey local non profits to identify strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, challenges and interests.
3. Represent Golden & Area A’s non profits participate in provincial roundtables (like the BC Non Profit Sector Employers Council) to improve access to resources; address rural NFPs' needs
4. Publish and share with local funders the Community Grant Continuum so that alignment can occur.
5. Research, present & set-up structure for ongoing meetings of local stakeholder groups as a Community Team/Board.
6. To publish and share this project’s ideas on BCIdeas.com; GoldenLoom.ca and other social development websites and forums.
7. Courses: SFU’s Community Economic Development. Although Economic in name, the course has an emphasis on social development.
8. Research & create Community Coordinator Position for Golden: developed from best practices and the needs and desires the Golden & Area A community. A linchpin, the Community Coordinator would be responsible for listening to, pulling together, and coaching sub-sectors in the non profit community. This role could be a pilot project for other Basin communities.
9. Advertise/search for Community Coordinator.
10. Hire Community Coordinator.
11. Community Coordinator begins supporting & developing the Community Team/Board.
3. Represent Golden & Area A’s non profits participate in provincial roundtables (like the BC Non Profit Sector Employers Council) to improve access to resources; address rural NFPs' needs
4. Publish and share with local funders the Community Grant Continuum so that alignment can occur.
5. Research, present & set-up structure for ongoing meetings of local stakeholder groups as a Community Team/Board.
6. To publish and share this project’s ideas on BCIdeas.com; GoldenLoom.ca and other social development websites and forums.
7. Courses: SFU’s Community Economic Development. Although Economic in name, the course has an emphasis on social development.
8. Research & create Community Coordinator Position for Golden: developed from best practices and the needs and desires the Golden & Area A community. A linchpin, the Community Coordinator would be responsible for listening to, pulling together, and coaching sub-sectors in the non profit community. This role could be a pilot project for other Basin communities.
9. Advertise/search for Community Coordinator.
10. Hire Community Coordinator.
11. Community Coordinator begins supporting & developing the Community Team/Board.
