Previous stages should have yielded a set of project plans, each with a project driver and teamlet to take them forward. Each teamlet should have started research into the skills and resources needed to make the project happen. This is time to confirm partnerships, and clarify who can help.

One way to do this is to run a workshop and invite the agencies or other organisations potentially involved in projects. These should have been identified during networking, and may have been involved in the visioning exercise.

Invite the agencies to indicate which projects they will support. This could be through, for example:

• Funding
• Help in kind
• Endorsement

Draw up a matrix of projects against agencies, and fill in the cells with symbols indicating the type of support. You will then rapidly see which projects are most feasible.

See also the section on partnerships and review Terry Grunwald's advice on involving the community.