The complexity of the issues facing many communities today is daunting. There is no one organization that can "fix it," no one individual that can provide all of the necessary leadership to mount even a reasonable struggle.
For this reason, many organizations and communities have turned to collaborative approaches that bring together the many elements of the community that must work together to make progress on a particular issue or set of issues. These types of community-based collaborations can often break the logjam of complexity that would overwhelm one organization or individual working alone.
Clegg & Associates offers a wide range of services to assist organizations in leading community-based planning and collaboration initiatives. Key among these are:
- Identifying key organizations and individuals needed to lead the community-based initiative
- Assistance in recruiting these organizations and individuals to participate
- Developing work plans and other scheduling aids to help those involved understand how the process will work
- Facilitating discussions about best practices in creating and maintaining healthy collaborative structures
- Researching key issues important to the process, including demographic data, service data, financing data, community opinion leader data, and other information regarding methods that have proven effective in addressing particular issues
- Facilitating meetings of all sizes and types
- Organizing committees working in support of the community-based planning effort
- Coordinating staff from participating organizations
- Developing reports and other written documents to guide and capture the process
