COALITION BUILDING

1. COALITION BUILDING ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- A Collective Vision For Advocacy… by ShaniKapoor AshaKiran

2. Agenda…_______________________________________________________________Agenda…_______________________________________________________________ Overview of AshaKiran Coalition Building Annual events- Case Study Discussion

3. Vision AshaKiran aspires to be a ray of hope towards building a healthy and harmonious community Mission AshaKiran 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

4. Coalition?____________________________________________________________________________________Coalition?____________________________________________________________________________________ An alliance for combined action.

5. Volunteers ‘urge for making a difference’ by serving the community. Multiple international and national “incidents” leading up to the event Org. objective to increase outreach within wider community Need for collective efforts- Genesis…____________________________________________________________________________

6. 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.

7. Mapping Prospective Partnerships... • Religious • Interfaith Mission • Churches • Jewish temples/ synagogues • Islam mosques • Hindu Temple • Buddhist • Other faiths and sects • Education • Public • Private • Universities Humanitarian/ service-org • United Way • Housing • NAHC • Protection • Police • Sheriff City Chamber of Commerce • 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

9. Packed with festive spirit of fun, unity and social awareness…

10. Non-profit booths…

11. Entertainment for kids- Face Painting, puppet show and kite decoration…

12. One Billion Rising …

13. “Kites rise highest against the wind not with it”Winston Churchill

14. Awwww……. 

18. 100 foot long, 30 pound Octopus Kite..

19. In all it’s glory…

20. Live entertainment…

21. Started in 2007 Holistic wellbeing $200 per client Total over 54,000 Over 30 health service providers Including 20 doctors 120 volunteers (46 youth) 50 collaborators City-shuttle service Screenings, food, care bags Huntsville hosp.- mobile medical unit Health Fair..

22. Free Health Screen and Fair

23. Health and Wellness 2013 • Alliance grown • Domestic Violence screening

24. 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.  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”. Pranteek Patnaik, oordinator, Mobile Medical Unit, Huntsville Hospital

25. Process Desire to do something Competence to execute Willing partners Successful coalition Leadership- key

26. Clear, quantifiable, and attainable goals Diverse partnerships Decide on coalition structure Delegate task and resposibility Allow partners to lead Empower people to become effective and active- facilitator Avoid too-controversial alliances Make involvement easy Provide timely information Risk assessment, strategize fire-fighting involve Community Mobilization inform thank ask Structure of Co-operation… ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Courtesy: Sierra Club

27. How it helped us…_________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Resource sharing Successful partnerships Visibility – of AK and cause Awareness of social issues Trust- clients/community Empowering experience Leadership position- esp. AK Leadership development