What is Collaboration?

What is collaboration?  Collaboration is a powerful form of social organization that is rapidly growing in a time of crisis, conflict, and chaos.  It is a middle pathway between individual autonomy and collective institutionalization. There are many examples of what is collaboration. Collaboration has existed in many forms through much of human history; but in the midst of present anxieties arising from instant global communication and sense of personal powerlessness, collaboration is rising as an effective form of organization for social change to deal with pressing issues affecting so many people.

What is collaboration and what does it look like? The ten case histories in the book Journeys Into Justice illustrate how collaboration is built and maintained when diverse groups come together around a common purpose. Collaboration occurs when diverse groups share their resources of leadership, finances, and personnel to work toward achieving a common goal that each group would not be able to accomplish alone.

What is collaboration in its simplest definition? Collaboration builds up aggregated people power. It nurtures and motivates community solidarity that enables positive political influence for changing public policy, enacting constructive legislation, and redirecting institutions. In short, it can and does enable systemic change.

What is collaboration and its connection to faith? Collaboratives rooted in faith values have a visceral strength to empower action for the common good that can be sustained over long periods of time, nurture persistent and patient continuation, and not be disillusioned by the difficulties and the obstacles encountered along the way. The book Journeys into Justice demonstrates these powerful motivating and sustaining forces in operation in ten case histories of successful religious collaboratives—inspiring testimony to the power of collaboration. The question of what is collaboration can be answered ten times over in the ten case histories in this book.

 

What is collaboration? Get your copy of Journeys into Justice to find out!