Shared and Collaborative Arrangements

Shared and Collaborative Arrangements is an initiative of the Strengthening Non-Government Organisations strategy. The initiative was established to provide opportunities for community and disability organisations to form partnerships, share resources and increase their individual and collective capacity to provide services to clients. For example, a group of organisations could make arrangements to share office space and equipment, introduce mentoring programs, establish joint referral protocols and integrate service delivery.

The initiative has two components: Building Links, and the Multi-Tenant Service Centres Pilot.

Building Links

Building Links aims to create or expand collaborative partnerships by Portfolio funded non-government organisations by providing funds to either:

• Develop business case proposals for a collaborative activity; or
• Implement an existing planned collaborative activity.

Funding is one-off, however organisations that are successful in receiving business case funding will be eligible to apply for funds in future funding rounds to implement the planned collaborative activity.