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In Twos — a partnership between two small communities

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A partnership between two small communities is not a scaled-down version of a large one. It is a different creature. It has no coordinator and no dedicated budget, it runs on two or three volunteers with other jobs, and instead of a steering committee it has a group chat.

And it has one great advantage the large partnerships do not: you can know everyone by name. That is not a detail — it is the whole difference, and it is what this tool is built around.

Why not simply use the larger tools. A six-heading partnership document and a two-column resources table are excellent — for someone who has a committee to fill them in. For two volunteers they weigh more than they help, and usually they simply go unfilled. One page that gets completed beats a perfect document that stays empty.

The three parts

1
Three questions. Why the two of us · who holds this on each side · when we speak next. Four lines, and you have more than most large partnerships do.
2
Three things this year. Not five tracks and not a full calendar. Three things that will genuinely happen, each with a name and a month. Three that happen are worth more than ten that were written down.
3
Who knows whom. A list of pairs of people who know each other by name. At this scale that is not an appendix — it is the partnership itself.

Why the third list matters most

In a large partnership the relationship is held by structure: a committee, a budget, procedures. In a small one it is held by people — which makes the greatest risk not a lack of funding but a change of volunteers. When whoever began the relationship steps back, there is usually nowhere to hand it on, because it was never written down.

This list is the handover file. The tool counts the connections for you and says what the number means: one is a beginning; three no longer depend on a single person.

No

A rich annual plan nobody will open in February

Yes

Three things, a name against each, and a date for the next conversation

When to move to the larger tools

Once a committee has formed, once there is a budget line, and once what happens in a year can no longer be counted on one hand — that is the moment to move to the partnership document and the partnership year. Until then, one page is better.

Tomorrow morning

Open the tool and fill in only the third part — who knows whom. Five minutes, and you will have the single most important picture a small partnership can hold. The rest of the page can wait for the next conversation.

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