Ka Wai Ola - Office of Hawaiian Affairs, Volume 14, Number 7, 1 July 1997 — Embrace changes, create partnerships with 'Collaboration' [ARTICLE]

Embrace changes, create partnerships with 'Collaboration'

A one-day conference focusing on collaborations among businesses, government, health and human service agencies in Hawai'i will be held July 21 from 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. at the Neal Blaisdell Center. The program is aimed to show how to create, nurture and support collaborations in Hawai'i. Discover the benefits of collaborations and learn how to maintain relationships, identify problems and attain solutions together, prepare your organization for tomor-

row's changing financial opportunities, and achieve your goals with available resources. Collaboration aims to benefit board members and senior staff of not-for-profit organizations, funders, business leaders and government administrators and planners. The workshops available during the conference are: Community Building; The Board's Role in Collaboration, An Urgent Agenda: Welfare Reform, Manage Care: New Options, New Pitfalls, new Ways of Doing Business;

Getting Business Involved; Legal/Financial Issues in Collaboration, Networks and Mergers; and Lessons Learned: What to Do and Not to Do. This conference is presented by the Ho'olaulima Committee, a diverse group of community leaders. There is a $30 registration. Registration deadline is July 11. To register please eall Alda Kennedy at 847-1302.