Subject Line: The partnership resource hiding in plain sight that nobody told you about
The examples in this newsletter are drawn from real partnership experiences. Names and identifying details have been altered to protect privacy.
Who's This For
I'm writing this for anyone who has ever built something from scratch that already existed somewhere else on campus.
You've spent months developing a partnership with an industry contact, only to discover that your institution's economic development office already had a relationship with that company. You've worked to establish credibility with a community organization, not knowing that a colleague in a different college had been collaborating with them for years. You've written a proposal describing partnership infrastructure you'd create, when the infrastructure already existed in a different unit.
This issue is about mapping what already exists before building something new.