• Be a nonprofit direct service provider.

• Be willing to accept and promote the mission, goals, and objectives of the collaborative.

• Possess professional expertise and influence needed by the collaborative, and/or represent one or more constituencies needed to provide balance to the collaborative’s membership.

• Demonstrate a significant leadership capability in the community and a willingness to provide that expertise to the operation of the collaborative.

• Be willing to make an annual financial contribution at the level defined by the collaborative, based on agency budget size.

• Financial contribution towards annual dinner cost for self, as defined by the collaborative, and 100% of the cost for any guest attending.

• Be able and willing to serve effectively as a public representative of the collaborative.

• Willingness to host a meeting and/or chair/co-chair the Collaborative.

• Willingness to mentor/coach an emerging leader from a member agency.

• Willingness to be an active participant on an assigned committee or project, e.g., staffing a booth at local events, or participating on a committee to develop a curriculum for future collaborative meetings.

• Act as advocates to public officials, the media and the corporate sector on behalf of the nonprofit sector and those we serve.

• Relationship building with members within the alliance network.

• Potential for shared services or resources across the alliances.

• Partnership development, organizational exposure & active network.

• Legislative awareness and advocacy.

• A safe place to discuss all parameters of organizational operations.

< $1 million: $500/year

< $5 million: $750/year

> $5 million: $1,000/year