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Building Strong Partnerships for Your Statewide Website

Learn how to engage courts, bar associations, and other stakeholders to support and sustain your statewide website. Discuss strategic partnership approaches, successful examples, and ongoing needs for content, outreach, and funding.

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Building Strong Partnerships for Your Statewide Website

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  1. All Together Now! How to Build on Your Court, Bar and Program Partnerships to Enhance and Sustain Your Statewide Website TIG Conference January 2008

  2. Session Goals • We will discuss and brainstorm how to get the courts, bar, staff, and directors re-inspiredto fund, support and contribute to the statewide website.

  3. “Marry me Shirley – I desperately need content.”

  4. Stakeholder Committees • Legal services organizations (LSC and non-LSC) • Pro bono programs • Bar associations • Courts • Law librarians/Public librarians • Law schools • Human service organizations • Others (e.g., low-income technology providers)

  5. Other Stakeholders • Libraries • Community Technology Centers • Neighborhood Centers • Religious Organizations • Shelters – homeless, domestic violence • Creative partnerships

  6. Stakeholder Activity • What have stakeholders added to these projects? • Advisory/Governance role • Content contributors • Outreach/marketing partners • Access points • Administrative responsibilities • Innovation • Funders

  7. What we have accomplished • 50 states plus 5 territories have public sites • 4 million+ page views/year • Anecdotally 75% users are low-income or helping low-income • “Spine” of service delivery innovation • HotDocs, LiveHelp, XML

  8. Partnership Strategy • “Website staff and managers should pay particular attention to the potential of court, bar, library and others as core joint operators of an access to justice website.” • Website Sustainability Report, p. 27, Richard Zorza

  9. Benefits of Partners • What are the greatest benefits of partnership on these projects?

  10. Challenges of Partners • What are the greatest challenges to creating new (and reigniting old) partnerships?

  11. Inspiring Partnerships • Courts – Idaho • Courts/Law Schools – Illinois • Private Bar – Mississippi • Law Library – Texas • Credit Union – Montana • Bar Foundation – Ohio • Legal authors - Georgia

  12. Inspire each other! • Share a successful partnership story/strategy with the person next to you. • Then team up with another pair and share the strategies again, this time with each person reporting on his or her partner's strategies.

  13. Ongoing needs • Content maintenance, and new development • Outreach/marketing • Emerging technologies • Service delivery integration

  14. Creative Funding • TIG • PA court channel • FL pro bono outreach • IOLA • Website Sustainability Report • Comparability opportunity (FL, TX, NY)

  15. Creative Funding • Content/project • NY Attorney General • ME Area Agency on Aging • AR Winthrop Rockefeller (local funds) • Americorp VISTA program • MT, WY, AK • Others • Courts, Bar Foundations, …

  16. Partnership Strategy • “Website staff and managers should have a clear partnership building strategy that reaches out to the key actual and potential stakeholders for buy-in, content, marketing, access partnerships, evaluation and funding.” • Website Sustainability Report, p. 27, Richard Zorza

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