Community Partnerships provide great opportunities for people, institutions, corporations, non-profits, grantors, and grantees to connect and work together towards accomplishing common goals, while increasing the chances of receiving the community’s support. Community Partnerships also allow organizers to collaborate and share responsibilities in engaging the community in meaningful ways. All in efforts to connect the community with its community leaders hopefully for a good cause.

Partnering with community organizations also creates the ability to combine resources to achieve greater impacts at lower costs, while providing a broader reach by pooling resources like staff, supplies, space, material, equipment, advertising, and community presence. This also reduces the overall costs of programs.

Partnering together with community organizations with similar goals for grantees brings additional opportunities.  Joining forces when applying for grants and funding strengthens your proposal. Grantors prefer proposals where grantees can extend the reach and impact of the grant. Partnering with non-profits can extend tax-exemption status and widens the eligibility rating for the grant.

Involving the community and making community partnerships and connections brings all parties countless benefits.  It allows each organizer to take lead and focus on the aspects where they have real experience. Take It Away Tom!, for example, provides our Community Partners with commission-free transportation logistics on sponsored event shipments, reducing their shipping costs up to 24%.  We also have a network of carriers that support certain organizations and offer discounted services.

Community partnerships provide a sense of ownership, responsibility, pride, and accomplishment from doing something great.