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Doris Reeves-Lipscomb

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  • Himmelman defines networking as exchanging information for mutual benefit. T
  • go-around of information exchange,
  • Himmelman defines coordination as exchanging information and altering activities for mutual benefit and for a common purpose.
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  • A lack of coordination is a serious shortcoming in our helping system
  • We started with a networking exchange: we had the representatives indicate when each church group served warm meals. This revealed that two churches provided meals on Sundays. When the churches agreed that one would offer a meal on Sunday and the other would serve its meal on Wednesday, we moved from networking to coordination
  • Himmelman defines cooperation as exchanging information, modifying activities, and sharing resources for mutual benefit and to achieve a common purpose. Cooperation builds on the exchanges of networking and coordination and adds the new concept of sharing resources.
  • common purpose really become critical in cooperative exchanges.
  • Common purpose is more complex than mutual benefit
  • visioning process about where they want to go as separate entities, and then they have to determine what parts of their visions are held in common.
  • element of sharing resources. Here Himmelman has included the magic word: resources.
  • collaboration, which builds on networking, coordination, and cooperation. Our definition already includes the concepts of exchanging information, modifying activities, sharing resources, and having a common purpose. To reach collaboration, Himmelman adds enhancing the capacity of another for mutual benefit and to achieve a common purpose by sharing risks, resources, responsibilities, and rewards.
  • enhancing the capacity of another.
  • risks, resources, rewards, and responsibilities
  • resources
  • Rewards, too, must be shared.
  • sharing responsibilities.
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    wonderful article on differences between networking, coordinating, cooperating, and collaborating drawn from work of Arthur Himmelman.  They add up:  exchange information, alter activities, share resources, enhance capacity for each player. 
Doris Reeves-Lipscomb

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    Arthur T. Himmelman's Collaborating for a Change model with matrix and narrative, 26 page document, revised January 2002. Networking, coordinating, cooperating are three steps to reach collaborating, starting with most informal to the formal, institutionalized arrangements that characterize collaborations.
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