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Successful Brownfields Job Development and Training programs create partnerships to strengthen and leverage available resources. Those programs have initiated partnerships for virtually every program activity, including recruiting, placing, training, and technical and financial assistance. This chapter will address a variety of ways in which you can establish partnerships for your Brownfields Job Development and Training program.
Before reading this chapter, take a moment to review the various terms relating to partner relationships that you will encounter. The terms are sorted into three categories: organizational partnerships, individual relationships, and the instruments used to establish partnerships.
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ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE
In the Program Maintenance and Sustainability chapter, the importance of organizational structure is discussed. Each term in this group provides a description of how partners relate to each other. The term partner provides a general connotation that some sort of agreement exists between parties. The term umbrella organization describes an organization that covers or umbrellas one or more programs. Parent organizations denote the same structure, while sister organizations connote a separation of organizations that have common interests and linkages. Linkages, service providers,and contractors are other ways that partners relate to each other.
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Stakeholders
Advisors
Consultants
Associates
Customers and clients
Members
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INDIVIDUAL RELATIONSHIPS
Individuals may relate to the Brownfields Job Development and Training Program in one or several ways. Stakeholders are any person, group, or organization that may impact or be impacted by brownfields activity. Other terms in this group are self- descriptive.
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Memorandums of Understanding (MOU)
Letters of intent
Commitments
Contracts
Purchase orders
Articulation agreements
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INSTRUMENTS USED TO ESTABLISH PARTNERSHIPS
A Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) details the terms of a partnership between two organizations. The content of the MOU states in general terms the expectations of each party in achieving a common goal. Letters of intent and commitment letters serve a similar purpose, while contracts and purchase orders provide a binding commitment of deliverables. Articulation agreements are formal agreements between educational institutions to recognize credits earned at one institution and transferred to a partner institution.
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