How community based organizations can be integrated into an umbrella organization?

Question

How community based organization can be integrated into an umbrella organization?We are living in small town and intend to form a coalition of different CBOs.Our town has sanitation problem,we want to combine the efforts of different organizations and solve the problem collectively.Is there any article,book or web site available for this particular purpose?

Answer 1

It is a tough thing to do.  Some members of our community tried that and it did not work.  The different org. did not want to come under the umbrella because of differences in each group's Mission Statement.  The umbrella group was attempting to coordinate  the donations of time and money to ensure better results.  It cause such a rift in the Community that the general consensus was to have each organization send two representatives for discussions on Community problems.