Collaboration Council Case Study

Moreover, agency theory nicely describes the Collaboration Council’s relationship to its external environment. “An agency relationship occurs whenever one individual depends on or engages another to perform some service” (Olson, 2000, p. 281). The primary agency is called the “principal” while the dependent agency is simply called the “agency.” For the Collaboration Council, two key principal-agency relationships need to be acknowledged. In the first relationship, the Governor’s Office for Children is the principal while the Collaboration Council is the agency. Then, in the second relationship, the Collaboration Council is the principal while all of their contracted organizations are the agencies. Although dependent upon outside funding themselves, …show more content…
By having a lack of diverse funding, the organization is susceptible to mission drift. Consequently, the Collaboration Council is a chameleon, frequently changing to match the desires of their local and state government funders. Joanne suggested that federal funding could eliminate some of the local and state government bureaucracy that is now embedded in the Collaboration Council. While diversifying the organization’s funding has been a frequent topic of discussion among the board, no action ever comes from those discussions. However, on a more positive note, the Collaboration Council implemented a streamlined method to facilitate the management of best practices across youth service providers in the county. Through the Community of Practice arm of the Collaboration Council, free workshops are provided to youth service providers to promote the use of best practices throughout the county. Some of these workshops include: “LGBT Ally Training,” “Youth Mental Health First Aid,” and “Best Practices in …show more content…
April and Joanne both agreed that the Collaboration Council benefits from these assigned members through their ability to identify opportunities for county funding and their content knowledge. However, these members or more likely to be disengaged from the organization’s ongoings. Additionally, as government members, these individuals may have their own areas of interest that they will advocate for so that their department can be a collaborating partner. When considering the legal standards of boards of directors, I would think that the Collaboration Council’s structure could potentially impede the board’s duty of care and duty of loyalty (Hopkins, 2015, p. 59). However, because the Collaboration Council is classified as a “quasi-public nonprofit,” its governance legal framework may be similarly