Key Stakeholder Analysis and Community Engagement Planning

Building Strong Alliances with Key Partners

2-day workshop empowering partnership implementers to excel in collaborative alliances and partnerships. Explore emerging sector challenges and innovative solutions through expanded partnerships while preparing actionable plans to onboard priority partners aligned with strategic goals over the next two years.

Venue: ILC Training Hub

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Day 1: 9:00 am to 5:00 pmDay 2: 9:00 am to 5:00 pm

ABOUT THE SEMINAR

In an era marked by unprecedented change, turbulence, and uncertainty, the challenges faced by social service agencies (SSAs) are increasingly complex and multidimensional. The imperative for transformation and collaboration has become undeniable, as it is through collective efforts that sustainable solutions can be forged to address the pressing social issues of our time.

Explore the transformative capacity in forging collaborative alliances and partnerships. This workshop is designed specifically for partnership implementers within SSAs, providing them with the platform to comprehend emerging challenges within the sector and explore innovative solutions through expanded partnerships. You will discuss the strengths and weaknesses of your existing stakeholder relationships and explore advantages and challenges of collaborations and of including new partnerships and collaborations in alignment with your strategic priorities. You will identify potential priority partners using a partnership matrix, and develop an action plan to design win-win collaborations and onboard them in the next 2 years. The action plan will include resources you require to actualise the plan, which you can use to secure resources from your leaders.

WHAT YOU WILL LEARN

Outcomes:

  • A customised ecosystem map of new stakeholders and partners for the future
  • A priority list of partners to support your SSA’s strategic priorities in the immediate future
  • A structured action plan to design and onboard win-win collaborations in the next 2 years

Workshop Objectives:

At the end of the workshop partnership implementers will be:

  • Empowered to excel in collaborative alliances and partnerships.
  • Equipped to navigate future sector challenges through partnerships.
  • Enabled to activate priority partnerships or develop in-house capacity for partnership development.

SEMINAR HIGHLIGHTS

Day 1 – Understanding the Landscape:

  • A brief overview of “risk and vulnerability” in the post-pandemic, virtual, and digital worlds.
  • Emerging opportunities and threats to the work of Social Service Agencies (SSAs) in socially conscious and technologically savvy Singapore.
  • Data-based trends and new entrants in social justice in Singapore.
  • Benefits and challenges of strategic partnerships within the social sector.

Day 2 – Building Partnerships for Impact

  • Overview of the framework for SSAs to build alliances and partnerships for strategic impact.
  • Taking stock of your agency’s strategic plan for partnerships.
  • Mapping out a desired ecosystem of key stakeholders and alliances for your agency.
  • Action Plan – a preliminary 2-year Partnership Development Action Plan
  • Capacity needs assessment – what decisions and resources are required to actualize the action plan.

WHO SHOULD ATTEND

Officers who are currently holding partnership, community engagement or fundraising responsibilities in non-profit agencies

DATES AND TIMES

TBCDay 1: 9:00 am to 5:00 pmDay 2: 9:00 am to 5:00 pm

SEMINAR FEES & FUNDING

Group Discount: Sign up 3 or more pax and receive additional $200 discount off Early Bird fee per pax (before GST)​. Save up to $109 by reserving your seats before 15 December!

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Standard FeeBefore GST
  • Standard Fee$1,962 per pax
    VWOs-Charities Capability Fund Training Grant$962 per pax
    Community Care Training Grant$196.20 per pax

All prices exclude prevailing GST.

*Up to 80% seminar fee funding for NCSS member agencies(CCF Subsidy is capped at $1000 per pax)

**Up to 90% seminar fee funding for AIC approved organisations to be claimed directly from AIC. (Full payment is required from participants at the time of registration.)

For details and funding eligibility, please consult with your HR department. Kindly note that we, as the training provider, are unable to assist with inquiries related to this funding.

ABOUT THE FACILITATOR

MARGARET THEVARAKOM

Margaret is a dynamic and innovative consultant who advises, coaches and leads emerging leaders and teams in creating personal, professional and community transformations to make a difference in the world.

Drawing on her 27-year leadership experience in managing people and community development programmes around the world, she offer custom consultancy services to develop people, programmes and organisational effectiveness across the public, private and not-for-profit sectors.

She have a strong track record in leading multicultural and multi-disciplinary teams across a broad spectrum of international development initiatives. Her particular interest is in enhancing the capacity of people and agencies working in the following areas:

  • enhancing personal and professional leadership and effectiveness of individuals and teams employing mindfulness and complimentary mind-body-spirit approaches
  • managing development collaborations with the public, private and people sectors in Singapore and Asia
  • delivering innovative and impactful capacity building programmes in healthcare, education and community development and
  • building people-to-people collaborations between communities and countries to support healing and peacemaking.