artnerships can also be classified by their primary characteristics.
This list of partnership types might help you determine what kind of relationship you want to establish.
Collaboration involves great autonomy and no permanent organizational commitments or combined services.
Examples: sharing information; coordinating efforts
Strategic alliance involves shared or transferred decision-making power.
Examples: joint programming; administrative consolidation
Integration involves changes to organizational structure and control mechanisms.
Examples: joint ventures (two or more organizations create a new structure to advance a program-related function); mergers (previously separate organizations combine program/administrative/governance functions)
Funding alliance occurs when organizations come together to share a large grant/donation or create a recipient/donor relationship.
Cost-sharing occurs when each organization provides different resources, such as facilities, staff, or equipment.
Grant-match occurs when one organization provides a grant and the recipient provides a match in services, cash, maintenance, supplies, or volunteers.