The mebership is on a sliding scale, and you get benefits too. If you are running your org or are a senior member, there is even potential to get train to gain grants to pay for some of the training!
The economics of collaboration Vs the need of organisations to justify their existence - fab video. Recommend it! - some of these points I talked with Eliz about. Gets you thinking about developing your relationship with service users.
NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR HEALTH AND CLINICAL EXCELLENCE
List of Registered Stakeholders as at 11.02.08
“An assessment of community engagement and community development
approaches including the collaborative methodology and community champions
This one needss some inspector gadget work - National institue of health report assessing community engagment approaches - including collaborative methodologies and community champions
In a recent study of how foundations define and approach effectiveness, the Urban Institute surveyed 1,192 grantmakers. Sixty-nine percent reported they actively encouraged collaboration among grantees. Forty-two percent of these said they sometimes required partnering as a condition for funding.