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MISSION AND PLANNING<br />
chapter six<br />
2. Link the partnership and partners’<br />
missions.<br />
It is important to explicitly link the partnership’s<br />
mission with its members. A “mission<br />
map,” illustrating the interrelationships<br />
between the partnership and its component<br />
parts, can be very helpful in identifying how<br />
and why the pieces fit together. A generic<br />
model is illustrated in Figure 6-3.<br />
The most effective partnerships have mission<br />
overlap. When you have mission congruence,<br />
it’s easier to resolve problems like resources.<br />
Lacking sufficient alignment, a partnership<br />
should identify reciprocal benefits that encourage<br />
participation. For example, a bank<br />
involved with neighborhood revitalization may<br />
fund higher-risk home mortgages and achieve<br />
greater market share in an underserved neighborhood.<br />
Here, the partnership would receive<br />
greater access to mortgage financing while the<br />
bank would receive community goodwill and<br />
access to a broader market. The Medical Care<br />
for Children Partnership refers to this linkage<br />
as “reciprocity, not generosity.” In its case, neither<br />
the county nor any private medical partner<br />
treats uninsured children as its primary<br />
mission. However, the partners rally around<br />
this initiative due to reciprocal benefits.<br />
CMS’ Caregiver/Employer Program and<br />
Hampton’s Healthy Families Partnership provide<br />
excellent examples <strong>of</strong> how their and their<br />
members’ missions intersect.<br />
FIGURE 6-3<br />
MISSION MAP<br />
Business<br />
Partner<br />
Mission<br />
Nonpr<strong>of</strong>it<br />
Partner<br />
Mission<br />
HPP<br />
MISSION<br />
Civic Partner<br />
Mission<br />
<strong>Public</strong><br />
Partner<br />
Mission<br />
Source: Jane Heneger and Ellen Quigley,<br />
Family Strengthening Coalition (Indianapolis)<br />
Kaiser Permanente, a nonpr<strong>of</strong>it health<br />
maintenance organization, partnered with<br />
Fairfax County to provide health care to<br />
the children <strong>of</strong> the working poor.<br />
Services are provided at a reduced cost.<br />
Kaiser Permanente replicated this partnership<br />
in five other counties in the Mid<br />
Atlantic Region to provide health care for<br />
2,250 children annually.<br />
Heidi Veltman and Mindy Rubin, Medical Care for<br />
Children Partnership (Fairfax)<br />
84 Powering the Future: <strong>High</strong>-<strong>Performance</strong> <strong>Partnerships</strong>