A newsletter from the Jewish Home and Care Center, Chai Point Senior Living, the Sarah Chudnow Community and the Jewish Home and Care Center Foundation.
Summer 2016
Convening, Collaborating & Partnering
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ollaboration and partnership are important characteristics of the nonprofit sector in the United States. The partnering of not-for-profit organizations to pool resources and expertise and create solutions for common needs is an ever-growing trend. Nonprofit leaders consider a meaningful partnership to be a preferred outcome for their organizations’ limited time and assets.
organizations’ leadership skills and talents; to build synergistic processes that build capacity for both partners.” Sattell explained that, in choosing a strategic partner, “I look for partners who can fulfill the identified strategic
collaborated on opening a Memory Café, a social gathering place for people with early to moderate Alzheimer’s and their families and caregivers. The Memory Café was created by partnerships with the Jewish Home and Care Center, the Alzheimer’s Association of S.E. Wisconsin, the Milwaukee County Parks System, the Aging Disability and Resource Center and the Milwaukee County Department on Aging. Numerous local not-for-profits pooled their resources, expertise, and passion for serving Milwaukee-area residents in need of a dementia-friendly community. Social-impact partnerships address our moral responsibilities to ensure that social programs actually improve recipients’ lives, and do so in a fiscally prudent manner.
On a continuing basis, the Jewish Home and Care Center Foundation,(which financially supports the Jewish Home and Care Center, Chai Point Representatives from participating organizations cut the and the Sarah Chudnow ribbon officially opening the Memory Café. Community) joins with several other nonprofit organizations to objective and also embrace our mission In January, Michael Sattell initiated better our community and enrich the or have demonstrated a comparable an organization-wide commitment lives of our residents, participants and mission of their own, and where it to dementia-friendly training and staff. When nonprofits work together is a “win-win” entered into a it gives rise to efficiencies, increases arrangement; “The partnership has allowed contract with service delivery capacity, and amplifies that both parties the Alzheimer’s for the advancement of nursing Association of the reach of public-serving programs must find the science that not only improves S.E. Wisconsin through partnership. partnership beneficial for their the health and health outcomes for the provision Michael Sattell, CEO and president constituencies.” for residents within the Jewish of Alzheimer’s of the Jewish Home and Care Center and dementia Home and Care Center, but Foundation, emphasized that, “We Last year, the certification ultimately influences care of enter into strategic partnerships for Jewish Home training for all one or more reasons: to reduce our and Care Center personnel. seniors both nationally and overhead or other costs; to add to our formalized and internationally.” ‘value’ proposition, that is, to enhance expanded its Tom Hlavacek, Dr. Kim Litwack CEO of the and expand selected programming; partnership with to acquire and/or research new the Alzheimer’s Southeastern technologies to better care for our Association of S.E. Wisconsin. Wisconsin Chapter of the Alzheimer’s residents; to combine ours with other In August, the Adult Day Center Association, explained that the