The Strategic Alliances Circle is an essential component of our Patio community. Tasked with the significant role of nurturing and strengthening external strategic relationships, this circle serves as both, Patio's ambassador to partner organizations and a channel for learning and collaboration, ensuring our message and values align with wider cooperative movements.
Here are the main objectives of the Strategic Alliances Circle:
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Enhancing Patio's External Relations 🌐: The Circle is responsible for establishing and amplifying Patio's presence in the cooperative ecosystem. They ensure that our values, initiatives, and achievements are communicated effectively to external stakeholders, including organizations like ICA, CECOP, and others.
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Fostering Communication with Allied Movements 📞: They facilitate clear and open lines of communication with people and movements that may not be part of the tech coop sector but contribute significantly to the social economy. By managing and organizing these communications, they ensure Patio evolves as a key tech actor in wider social economy narratives.
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Facilitating Cross-Movement Engagements 🌍: The Circle organizes and manages engagements with external movements and cooperative bodies. These include meetings, events, and discussions, fostering a sense of unity and shared purpose with allied movements.
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Gathering and Sharing Collaborative Insights 🧠: The Circle plays a pivotal role in capturing insights, opportunities, and innovative ideas from external collaborations. These invaluable inputs are then disseminated to the relevant circles and members, influencing our community's strategic planning and growth.
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Managing Public Relations with Partners 👥: The Circle represents Patio in public forums, responding to partnership enquiries, and managing our relations with partners. They ensure our narrative with partners is accurate, consistent, and aligned with our values and mission.
The Strategic Alliances Circle, therefore, acts as Patio's bridge to the wider cooperative and social economy movements, managing how we engage with the world and how we learn from our allies. It is the embodiment of Patio's commitment to cooperative solidarity, upholding transparency and fostering collaboration.
For more detailed information of the circles' activities, please check the Trello Board If you want to contribute to the Circle's activities, please get familiar with the Circle Onboarding document [link to the document] and reach out in the Channel - [link to the channel] for more details.