Networking for Success
How to build and create effective partnerships, alliances and coalitions in a competitive environment
12 May 2000
The community sector needs strong networks and cooperative relations between agencies to get good results for our clients and customers. How can we pool ideas and resources as we face fiscal restraint and contestability for government service contracts? How do we maintain a cooperative ethos in the human services industry? How do we keep 'community' in the community sector?

The conference considered success stories in regional networking, competitive tendering, brokering and collaborative service delivery. Strategies and models for better cooperation in integrated service delivery, referrals, inter-agency protocols, use of information technology, marketing, training, and co-location were also discussed.

Conference Papers
The conference papers are available for download as Word Rich Text (RTF) documents. Click on the name of the paper/speaker and it will open in your Microsoft Word application and/or save to your disk.

• Challenges to the way we work - how should we respond
  • David Thompson - Executive Officer, Jobs Australia
  • Jennifer Westacott - Deputy Director-General, NSW Department of Housing
  • Lyla Rogan - Director, RPR Consultants
  • Peter Richardson - General Manager, Mission Australia
• The good, the bad and the ugly: some case studies about new ways of working
  • The Moreland Child Care Network: Annie Abay - Abay Consulting
  • The Illawarra Industry Package: Joanne Pollard, Illawarra Community Forum
  • Successful collaborations between business, nonprofits and communities: Margaret Miller - National Manager, Sponsorship and Community Relations, NRMA
• Workshops: Unpacking some of the processes
  • Challenging the small/large culture: Blacktown local/global strategies: Deborah Sharp, Western Sydney Communtiy Forum and Tirrania Suhood, Blacktown Alcohol and other Drugs Family Services
  • A case study of the Orange/Cabonne Integrated Community Care Demonstration Project: Robyn Frost, Central West HACC Forum

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The Networking for Success conference was supported by the NRMA and the NSW Ageing and Disability Department.

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