COALITION BUILDING-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
A Collective Vision For Advocacy…
by Shani Kapoor
AshaKiran
Agenda…_______________________________________________________________
o Overview of AshaKirano Coalition Buildingo Annual events- Case Studyo Discussion
VisionAshaKiran aspires to be a ray of hope towards building a healthy and harmonious community
MissionAshaKiran is committed to educate, empathize and empower persons of South Asian origin and beyond while providing culturally sensitive and confidential services to people experiencing trauma and crisis situations.
A Ray of Hope
Coalition?____________________________________________________________________________________
An alliance for combined action.
o Volunteers ‘urge for making a difference’ by serving the community.
o Multiple international and national “incidents” leading up to the event
o Org. objective to increase outreach within wider community
o Need for collective efforts-
Genesis…____________________________________________________________________________
First Community Kite Festival
• More than 2000 people
• Aprox. 60 non-profit org. exhibits
• 220 volunteers
• Mayor and other
dignatories
Almost 52 local non-profits came together as an alliance to sponsor the event in less than one month time-frame.
Mapping Prospective Partnerships...Religious
• Interfaith Mission• Churches• Jewish temples/
synagogues• Islam mosques• Hindu Temple• Buddhist• Other faiths and
sects
Humanitarian/ service-org
• United Way• Housing• NAHC
City
Chamber of Commerce
Protection
· Police· Sheriff
Education
• Public• Private• Universities
International
· ISC· ISH· All countries· Hispanic Adv
Committee
Healthy Huntsville
· Huntsville Hospital
· Crestwood· MPHD
Responsibility/Task: Publicity, entertainment, program, flyer design, hospitality room, food/vendors, volunteer co-ordination, stage management, booth solicitation/RSVPs, Kite flying, welcome/information table
Packed with festive spirit of fun, unity and social awareness…
Non-profit booths…
Entertainment for kids- Face Painting, puppet show and kite decoration…
One Billion Rising …
“Kites rise highest against the
wind not with it” Winston Churchill
Awwww…….
100 foot long, 30 pound Octopus Kite..
In all it’s glory…
Live entertainment…
o Started in 2007o Holistic wellbeingo $200 per cliento Total over 54,000o Over 30 health
service providerso Including 20 doctorso 120 volunteers (46
youth)o 50 collaboratorso City-shuttle serviceo Screenings, food,
care bagso Huntsville hosp.-
mobile medical unit
Health Fair..
Free Health Screen and Fair
Health and Wellness 2013
• Alliance grown
• Domestic Violence screening
Feedback and Quotes from attendees…________________________________________________________________________________________
“Thank you for your great vision and to all the volunteers that made the health fair possible. I really appreciated your desire to have those in the Hispanic community receiving this assistant. Next year will be even better”.
Rosa M. Toussaint-Ortiz, Community Services Chaplain
“Thank you very much for your generosity and for the help that you bring to the community. I was with my mom today at the Health Screening and I was very happy with my experience. I would like to THANK YOU personal for everything.”
Cristina Bratu (From Russia) Ccongratulate ‘for hosting the most organized health fair’. Julie
Drzewiecki
“Last year I organized over 78 community health screenings and we screened over 4000 people as a health system. Out of all 78 community screenings I was involved in last year, AshaKiran had the best foot print of what a community screening should be & I encourage other organizations to shadow the AshaKiran model. You had more physicians under one roof for a community screening that I have ever seen & a great mixture of informational and biometric screening areas creating a very balanced and well rounded health fair experience.
o Having a volunteer leading small group through the entire fair ensures everyone participates at all stations which is where the full benefit is realized. As a local health professional I would advise anyone looking to host a community health fair to contact AshaKiran in an effort to replicate what they do for the community”. o Pranteek Patnaik, oordinator, Mobile Medical Unit, Huntsville Hospital
Processo Desire to do somethingo Competence to execute o Willing partnerso Successful coalition
Leadership- key
o Clear, quantifiable, and attainable goals
o Diverse partnershipso Decide on coalition
structureo Delegate task and
resposibilityo Allow partners to leado Empower people to
become effective and active- facilitator
o Avoid too-controversial alliances
o Make involvement easyo Provide timely
informationo Risk assessment,
strategize fire-fighting
Courtesy: Sierra Club
Structure of Co-operation…____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
How it helped us…_________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
o Resource sharingo Successful partnershipso Visibility – of AK and causeo Awareness of social issueso Trust- clients/communityo Empowering experienceo Leadership position- esp. AKo Leadership development