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Interchapter Cooperation

problemNeed to make your organization more effective

solutionCooperate with other organizations to share knowledge and resources across the movement

creator• Aegis Maelstrom

created on5 August, 2015

What problem does this solve?

Organization cannot be as effective learning everything from the start. Need to make the organization more effective by looking for synergies and sharing resources, experience, and swapping capabilities within a goal to do more, better.

What is the solution?

• Copy best solutions of others
• Avoid their mistakes
• Specialize in something & grow others to be more mature
• Ask for resources
• Make own projects more attractive through international thinking.

General considerations

• Learn the partner organization and their capabilities. Be sure everyone can deliver and share material goods.
• Understand your comparative competencies, what is easy for you, what is easy for partners.
• Find things to learn upon: copy a program, write guidelines together.
• Be sure you are helping and "scratching the itch"
• Communicate clearly. Don't be afraid to mitigate or quit.
• Build your co-op: Use it is Public Relations, recruitment, networking to connections.
• Bridge between local communities and international level.
• Run health checks. If the goals are metric

See also

• Hosting a Fail Fest as part of a conference or large meeting.