Building on experience

The experience of a partnership teaches valuable lessons. You are wiser from the mistakes and unforeseen obstacles that you encountered. You have learned from your partner(s) and about their organization. You have a better idea of what the Soros foundations can contribute and achieve through partnership. And your experience may provide insight and examples to colleagues in your national foundation and in the Soros foundations network.

The experience of a partnership can generate opportunities. You now have useful contacts that should be maintained and can be built upon. Your donor partner(s) may become interested to work with your national foundation in new areas. Other donors may want to join and expand the successful partnership you have established. The partnership might even take on a life of its own as an independent organization or a grant recipient of the original partners. The publicity and visibility of your partnership may spark wider interest. A donor partnership in your country could become a model for collaboration in other countries of the Soros foundations network.