Strategic Alliances

Working together to achieve measurable social impact through shared value, capacity building and cause-driven programs.

Samaritan Foundation’s strategic alliances are intended to achieve greater impact than any organization could generate on its own. These alliances are formed along a broad spectrum of approaches, ranging from less integrated associations and coalitions to more highly integrated joint programming, shared services and legal mergers.

We form strategic alliances for several purposes, typically relating to jointly increasing our influence, scaling up our efforts, strengthening and expanding our programs and services, or streamlining our operations to gain efficiencies. In particular, we form strategic alliances to:

  • Achieve greater leverage among stakeholders to build awareness or advocacy
  • Address complex issues that require coordinating multiple stakeholders
  • Provide an integrated continuum of services to meet beneficiaries' needs
  • Strengthen or expand program or service quality and performance
  • Gain back-office or administrative efficiencies
  • Achieve greater economies of program scale
  • Enter new geographies, provide new services, or reach new beneficiaries

Strategic Alliances

Associations

(Includes coalitions, collaboratives, communities of practice)

Definition: A group of organisations
that voluntarily combine forces to accomplish a purpose of over time

Joint
Programming

Definition: Contractual programmatic undertaking of two or more entities without actual legal incorporation

Shared
Services

Definition: Jointly hiring a 3rd party or agreeing to share an existing resource to provide services

Merger

(Includes affiliates and subsidiary structures)

Definition: Combining of two organisations into one through legal affiliate or subsidiary structures

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