This chapter and quick guide from the Heart & Soul Community Planning Handbook explains the importance of partnerships within a community and provides tips for building and maintaining these relationships.
To truly reach the heart and soul of a community, a project must involve collaboration between all members. This chapter and quick guide, Building Partnerships for Heart & Soul Community Planning, provides tips for building working partnerships between organizations, individuals, and institutions within a community. Three basic steps make up this partnership process, including Recruiting, Forming, and Maintaining relationships. Laying out step-by-step tips and providing examples from past projects, this guide makes it easy for communities to build lasting partnerships.
In 2008, the Orton Family Foundation pioneered Heart & Soul Community Planning, a process that has so far been piloted in selected communities in New England and the Rocky Mountains. The Foundation is currently in the process of developing a H&S Handbook that describes the entire process, first explaining the reasoning behind Heart & Soul Community Planning, then walking through the steps to achieve an inclusive, enduring, long-term community plan. With detailed descriptions of new tools and methods and examples from on the ground, this handbook is a resource for planners and citizens alike.
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