Community Sector Management: Partnership and Project Analysis

This document presents a comprehensive solution to an Advanced Diploma of Community Sector Management assignment, covering key aspects of partnerships and project management within the community sector. The assignment includes two main tasks: answering knowledge-based questions and completing a project. The knowledge questions delve into various types of partnerships, their benefits, the partnership cycle, accountability of funded organizations, case studies, legal and ethical considerations, and referral networks. The project task involves investigating partnership opportunities, analyzing the fit with organizational goals, assessing risks, identifying resources, and establishing effective communication strategies. The solution provides detailed answers and analyses, offering valuable insights into the practical application of community sector management principles. The document is a resource for students seeking to understand partnership dynamics and project planning in the community sector.

Advanced diploma of
community sector
management

Table of Contents
Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
Assessment Task 1 – Knowledge Questions...................................................................................1
Question 1: Briefly explain each of the following types of partnerships:...................................1
Question 2: Identify five reasons why organisation might want to enter into more formal
partnerships with other services and organisations.....................................................................2
Question 3: Identify at least 3 benefits of partnership arrangements for each of the following
areas:...........................................................................................................................................3
Question 4: identify the processes that are included in the cycle of partnerships.......................3
Question 5: What accountability does a funded organisation have when carrying out projects.3
Question 6: Read the following case study then answer the questions that follow:...................3
a) How were the partners’ roles and responsibilities defined:....................................................4
b) The key issues and needs identified for the community.........................................................4
c) What would you identify as a contributing factor to the success of ESP...............................4
Question 7: Identify some of the legal and ethical considerations business need to be aware of
when establishing partnership arrangements:.............................................................................4
Question 8 - Explain why its important for service providers to have access to referral
networks......................................................................................................................................4
Question 9 – Why is it considered good practice to implement a confidentiality agreement
when developing a partnership....................................................................................................5
Question 10 Why should intellectual property be acknowledged and defined within a
partnership agreement?...............................................................................................................5
Question 11 – Identify some conflict resolution techniques you could implement to avoid this:
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Assessment Task 2 – Project............................................................................................................5
PART 1: Investigate partnership opportunities................................................................................5
TASK 1............................................................................................................................................5
1. How does the project or venture fit with the purpose, mission and strategic plan of the
organisation.................................................................................................................................5
2.. What are the likely benefits and impacts for the:...................................................................6
3. What risk assessments can reasonably undertake at this early stage. It will be useful to
consider risk assessments around:...............................................................................................6
4. If you are thinking of exploring additional funding through a partnership, in what way do
your thoughts and ideas fit with the target group or geographical focus of the funding?...........6
5. What is the likelihood of success? You need to really think about the importance of input
from your stakeholders................................................................................................................7
6. Have you asked whether a funding body might be willing to assist you in finding or
negotiating partnerships with other organisations, if so who and how can they assist you?......7
TASK 2............................................................................................................................................7
1. What are the resources and expertise:.....................................................................................7
2. What sort of commitment will you want from partners..........................................................7
3. What are their goals and philosophies:...................................................................................7
4. What evidence do business have that the partner/s are credible and viable organisations.....8
5. What services or service elements will want each partner to deliver.....................................8
6. How many partners do you need and why:.............................................................................8
What will a prospective partner want from you:.........................................................................8
Have you checked the following:................................................................................................8
TASK 3............................................................................................................................................9
1. How will you establish rapport with your potential partners..................................................9
2. Where will you meet and how often.......................................................................................9
3. What is the focus of your partnership, What are the key objectives, the mission, and what
client outcomes...........................................................................................................................9
4. the values and behaviour of partners:.....................................................................................9
5. What roles will each of the partners have:..............................................................................9
6. What timeframe and indicators will you develop for establishing the partnership:.............10

In order to develop effective partnership there should be time period of 6 to 12 months........10
7. What barriers may affect the partnership:.............................................................................10
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................11
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................12

INTRODUCTION
Knowledge and skills of the individual helps to gain better objectives and growth of the
assessment in the diploma. Skills of the person help to enhance the level of understanding about
the information and knowledge in the business. There are various skills and capabilities of the
person that helps to gain better growth and enhancement of goals and objectives in the market.
Also these skills and capabilities of the individual helps to gain aim and objectives of the life in
most appropriate manner (Waheduzzaman, 2019). Effective understanding about the diploma
and having effective knowledge and understanding helps a person to gain effective knowledge
and information in most appropriate manner. This report has information about various aspect of
study and understanding of individual growth and achievement of career goals and advantages
helps in better planning and analysing the growth and fulfilment of needs and wants in the future.
This also includes information about partnership agreements that helps to gain better knowledge
and effectiveness in the future growth.
Assessment Task 1 – Knowledge Questions
Question 1: Briefly explain each of the following types of partnerships:
a) Incorporated alliance/consortium: Incorporated alliance is legal structure set up under
the state or territory law that is usually knows and non-profit firms. It is and voluntary,
simple and inexpensive mean of establishing a legal entry. This organizations works for
the well being and effectiveness of the society that helps to promote the business in the
market and gain effective knowledge and understanding about the growth of the
organization. This type of organization works for the fulfilment of the needs and wants of
people in the business so that they can provide effective living to the other people.
b) Non-incorporated or un-incorporated alliance: Partnership with the sole traders is an
un incorporated alliance (Lai and et. al., 2019). That works for the individual growth and
enhancement of goals and objectives. It is not register at the company house and has no
obligation in the business to maintain the record and fulfil the need of the organization.
These companies do not have any obligations of the registration of the firm and
transaction in the law books. They make annual return report for the business to gain
effective growth and level of effectiveness in the business. In this owner bear all the
responsibilities of business and take all the decision making by their own. This help them
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to gain better growth and enhance the level of profitability of the business with the sole
trader firm.
c) Sub-contracting: A subcontractor of the business take part in the larger project of the
company to fulfil the need of expert in the particular area of focus. In the undertaking
contract with the contractor subcontractor carry out the responsibility of work that
contractor can not perform but they are the responsible for the business contracts (Hu and
et. al., 2019). This helps the businesses to perform large project in most appropriate
manner and earn profitability in the business.
d) Service partnerships through agreement: services partnership are the business that
provide services such as; accounting, product development, maintains or training,
marketing of the business, essential growth to the small business etc. this type of
partnership services works for profit maximisation and growth of the services company in
the market. It include agreement between the organization that helps to perform various
task in most appropriate manner.
Question 2: Identify five reasons why organisation might want to enter into more formal
partnerships with other services and organisations.
There are various benefits of formal partnerships with other services and origination, that helps
in better growth and proficiency in the market.
1. It helps the business to gain better profitability and growth in the market, also enhance
the level of effectiveness in the services they offer to the customers.
2. It helps to complete large project in most appropriate manner and provide better growth
to the business.
3. It helps to take right decision at the right time so that company can gain effective
productivity.
4. Partnership with the contractors enhance the level of effectiveness in the services they
offer in the market and complete the project in most appropriate manner.
5. This enhance the level of growth that individual has in the sole traders and distribute the
responsibility at right time.
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Question 3: Identify at least 3 benefits of partnership arrangements for each of the following
areas:
 Maximization of resources: partnership arrangements help the business to increase the
level of resources they have for the particular project and task. This helps to gain
effectiveness in the various resources and growth of the business in the market (Wallmeier
and Thaler, 2018). It provides effective resources so that they can provide benefits to the
project and partnership firms.
 Strategic benefits: This helps to enhance the level of strategic growth in the business by the
use of effective planning process and growth at the business level. This helps the business to
market effective strategy according to the market competition and growth of the business.
 Benefits for clients and communities: Agreements with the partnership services helps the
business to provide effective services to the customers so that they can gain benefits in the
future and enhance the level of growth in the market.
Question 4: identify the processes that are included in the cycle of partnerships.
There are various stages of partnership that help the organization to gain better growth and
enhancement of goals and objectives in most appropriate manner. This stages assist business to
gain effective growth of the business in the market and fulfil the need of partnership in the
business. These stages include steps; attract, engage, enable, ramp, manage. These stage of
partnership cycle helps to gain better objectives in the market and enhance the level of
profitability at the business.
Question 5: What accountability does a funded organisation have when carrying out projects.
In order to carry out the business project there are various factors that needs to examine such
as cost of the project, expenses and margin form the project work and how the project should be
done in the future (Dal Mas and et. al., 2019). This helps to gain insight about the project
competition in the business by the use of effective funding and processing for the effective
guidance of the business.
Question 6: Read the following case study then answer the questions that follow:
CASE STUDY
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a) How were the partners’ roles and responsibilities defined:
The roles and responsibilities of the partner identify by the number of investment they have
done in the business and gain effective advantages and growth of the business in the market. The
effective growth of the business needs to done when they are fulfil the need and wants of the
organization with the use of effective planning. Each partner is responsible for the accounting of
the funds in the business. Sharing of human resource, lines of communication between each of
the responsibilities in the business.
b) The key issues and needs identified for the community
There are various issues that organization face while ensuring the effectiveness of the
partnership firms. Those impact the level of effectiveness in the growth of partnership and
enhance the level of effectiveness in the business (Popova, 2019). There are various services that
were provided by the business to gain effective growth and enhancement of goals and objectives.
These are the rules and regulation that needs to be follow by the partnership firms and their
growth in the business.
c) What would you identify as a contributing factor to the success of ESP
The success of ESP is increase with the use of effective growth of the partnership firms and this
includes information about the ESP networks so that effective outcomes can be achieved by the
businesses. That enhances the level of growth of the business and partnership firm.
Question 7: Identify some of the legal and ethical considerations business need to be aware of
when establishing partnership arrangements:
Legal and ethical consideration helps the business to gain better growth with the norms of
the society that follow by the individual and growth of the business. Ethical and legal
consideration enhances the level of growth of the business in the market. It helps to provide
business more logical and effective consideration to provide effective growth. this helps to solve
the issues to provide the effective growth to the business.
Question 8 - Explain why its important for service providers to have access to referral networks.
An effective referral system helps to gain effective growth and enhancement of goals and
objectives of the business in the market. This helps to build relationship between all level of the
systems in the services. This helps to gain better knowledge and understanding about the task
that needs to be done in effective manner.
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Question 9 – Why is it considered good practice to implement a confidentiality agreement when
developing a partnership.
Making agreements in the partnership helps to gain safety and surety about the partnership
firms so that effective growth of the business can be achieve in the market. A legal agreement
helps the organization to have evidence of the contract they have with the other partner in the
organization. This helps to gain better knowledge and information about the partners and its
effectiveness in the business.
Question 10 Why should intellectual property be acknowledged and defined within a partnership
agreement?
Intellectual property in the business enhances the level of business security and growth in
the market. It needs to be considers in the business so that effective growth of the business can
be gained (Woo and et. al., 2020). This helps to gain better knowledge about the business and
how the intellectual properties are distributed in the business.
Question 11 – Identify some conflict resolution techniques you could implement to avoid this:
In the partnership with the other business there are various issues and problems that
business face in order to gain better growth and enhancement of goals and objectives. At the time
of decision making business faces huge conflicts with the partners because of different point of
view about the firm. In order to prevent business form the conflict businesses needs to focus on
the effectiveness of the contract that provide all the information.
Assessment Task 2 – Project
PART 1: Investigate partnership opportunities
TASK 1
1. How does the project or venture fit with the purpose, mission and strategic plan of the
organisation.
Project venture helps the business to gain better growth and enhancement of goals and
objectives of the business in the market. This helps to gain better knowledge and information
about the growth and efficiency of the business (Mustari, 2020). Venture in the project help to
gain better growth in the market so that effective growth can be achieve in most effective
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manner. This provide effective knowledge and information about the mission and strategic plan
of the organization so that effective outcomes can be achieved in the business.
2.. What are the likely benefits and impacts for the:
Organisation: This helps the organization to gain better growth in the market and
enhance the level of effectiveness in the business growth. also business venture provide
information about the growth of the business in the market and provide funds to gain better
objectives.
Staff: This help the staff members to gain better growth and enhancement of goals and
objectives in the business. Staff members of the business helps to gain better objectives and
growth of the business in the market.
Clients: Business ventures provide information to the business about the needs and
wants of the clients form the organization and that helps to gain better objectives and growth of
the business in the market.
3. What risk assessments can reasonably undertake at this early stage. It will be useful to
consider risk assessments around:
Financial issues: To avoid financial risk in the business the assessment of the uncertainty
is important for the business person to gain effective growth in the business (Walker and et. al.,
2020).
Human resource impact: To reduce the impact on the human resource of the business
proper training and development should be provided to them.
Services to the clients: To provide effective services to the clients the person needs to
know about the actual rate of profitability in the business and what services need to provide to
the customers for the effective growth and enhancement of goals and objectives.
4. If you are thinking of exploring additional funding through a partnership, in what way do your
thoughts and ideas fit with the target group or geographical focus of the funding?
To attain additional funding adequate response is required to collect from the marketplace
and for this I have worked for crowd funding that assist to collect funds from competitive
marketplace.
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5. What is the likelihood of success? You need to really think about the importance of input from
your stakeholders
Yes likelihood is a key of success as it assists to maintain strong and better relation with
other through which long term capability is attained over a regular period of instance. To attempt
partnership profitable relation is develop in between others so that margin of error is reduced.
6. Have you asked whether a funding body might be willing to assist you in finding or
negotiating partnerships with other organisations, if so who and how can they assist you?
The funding body is willing to assist funding in terms of negotiating partnership with this
adequate responders get provide appropriate funds as per analysing overall situation.
TASK 2
1. What are the resources and expertise:
Various resources in the business helps to gain better growth and enhancement of goals
and objectives in most appropriate manner. This helps to enhance the level of growth in the
market and enhance the source of information. Human resource, finance, and business expertise
helps to gain better advantages in the future growth. Finance is an essential need for the business
and in order to gain success of partnership firms.
2. What sort of commitment will you want from partners.
Commitment form the partners is important for the growth and success of the business.
The financial needs of the business need to fulfil in order to gain better growth and enhancement
of goals and objectives. At the time of decision making person needs to perform effective role in
the business so that effective growth can be achieve by the business. To gain the benefits form
the partners contract of partnership needs to perform in most appropriate manner.
3. What are their goals and philosophies:
The goals of partners is to gain better objectives and growth in the market, this helps to
gain better growth in the future and gain better objectives (Farhani and Rahman, 2019). Their
goal is to make the professional life more effective with the use of business and gain better
objectives in the market. In the business partnership firms helps to gain better growth and
advantages in the future.
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4. What evidence do business have that the partner/s are credible and viable organisations.
Budget and annual report of the business helps to analyse the business have the partner to
gain better objectives and growth in the business. Annual report of the business shows the level
of effectiveness in the business growth and success. Budget of the business show case the growth
and achievement of the business to gain better objectives in the future.
5. What services or service elements will want each partner to deliver.
Effective services at the time of decision making of the business in the market helps to gain
better objectives and growth. there are various types of accounts services that partners an
perform in order to gain better growth and enhancement of goals and objectives.
6. How many partners do you need and why:
In order to perform the business activities and growth of the business in the market there
should be at least 2 partners that can helps to manage the business and growth of organization in
the market. This helps to gain better objectives and growth of the organization in most
appropriate manner.
What will a prospective partner want from you:
Effective growth in the business with the use of strategies that can helps business to gain
better growth and proficiency in the market. Partner need loyalty and growth of the business in
the market. Prospective partner assist business towards the growth for the business requirement
and growth in the market.
Have you checked the following:
 Their image and standing in the community: by the number of people they know and the business
they offer.
 The effect their image and standing will have on your organisation: positive image helps the business
to attract more customers and gain better growth.
 Your existing working relationships: yes positive and growing.
 Do organisational cultures: yes, with effective growth.
 Do governance and management styles fit: yes it helps the business to gain better objectives.
 Do strategic and business directions fit: no, sometimes it gets difficult.
 What sort of partner do you want them to be: for long term needs of the business.
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