Health Care is definitely one of those fields where partnership is integral for growth and sustainabiltiy. Mutually beneficial partnerships allows for individauls to share ideas and learn from each others strengths and weaknesses. Partnerships which exists between two organizaitons is much like relaitonships which exist between two poeple. The relationship requires time, effort communciation and patience. Often times if expectations are not clarified, it causes problems later in the partnership. Partnerships are also key for non profit organizations. Often times non profits face large concerns as many small nonprofits exist which stand for similar goals and obejectivec yet are competing against each other for allocation of funds and resources instead of working together for the greater good of the poeple. This hinders various organizaitons as they get caught up with the challenging funding aspects, and the exponential rise of new nonprofits certainly does not help the cause.
Another challenge faced in parthernship is the allocation of power. If one party controls a greater portion of resoruces this may be a potential cause for a strained relaitonship. Other unfavorable conditions include a partnership where one party is clearly beign taken advantange of, the orgnaizations within the partnership are not clear and upfront of their goals and ideals and so forth.
But with more partnership in the non profit health sector great strides could be reached.
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I think you are on to something important when you write about power. The tendency to funnel more resources towards a particular group (religion, race, class) is indicative of ethnocentricism, the dominant paradigm in the world today. Some people have grown to see the world from a global perspective recognizing that we are one species on one planet, but we are in the minority and there are challenges when conflicting or contrasting paradigms collide. And it appears the meaning of the language or concepts used by higher levels of consciousness may not be readily accessible/understandable to people who see the world through an ethnocentric perspective. So initiatives have to be structured and presented in a way that they can be grasped by individuals and groups whose paradigms may be different. This is a big challenge, perhaps the biggest in creating truly universal curative and preventative health care programs. In truth we are our brother and sisters keeper but that reality needs to be communicated in a sensitive and wide variety of ways... methinks!
Mike mpr.gpc@gmail.com
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