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Companies and professionalsCompanies and professionals can collaborate with ASK-Solutions in many different ways. This may involve making knowledge and time available, contributing materials or equipment, providing space, financially enabling development within a project or contributing to the public-benefit work of the foundation in another way.
There is no fixed range of services at the centre of this. The starting point is the work to which ASK-Solutions and its projects contribute. We then look at the role a company or professional can play within that work and how the collaboration can be appropriately structured.
Many activities require knowledge that does not need to be permanently available within the organisation. A professional can therefore make a valuable contribution by making their own expertise, experience or practical skills available when they are needed.
This may, for example, involve help with a complex grant or funding application, administrative or legal knowledge, technical expertise, maintenance, communication, project preparation or transferring professional knowledge to others.
A professional can contribute from their own field of expertise in areas such as funding, administration, technology, regulations, communication, organisation or development within a project. This may be a one-time contribution or take place during a particular phase of the work.
Professionals can also share their knowledge directly with others. This may, for example, take the form of an explanation, demonstration or participating as a guest teacher in a workshop. Within the project The Owl’s Nest, such a contribution can become part of the implementation of the shareable work model by an operator at a particular location.
Practical professional contributions can include maintenance, repair, installation, preparation or other work requiring particular experience, qualifications or tools.
A company does not have to contribute only time or money. Materials, parts, tools, machines and equipment that are no longer needed can sometimes be reused within ASK-Solutions or one of its projects.
Making space or facilities available can also be a valuable contribution. This could include temporary workspace or storage, a meeting room, transport or access to a facility needed for particular project work.
What is useful depends on the work for which the contribution is intended. The project The Owl’s Nest, for example, is built around a shareable work model that can be implemented by different operators at different locations. For a material contribution to this project, it can therefore also be coordinated for which concrete implementation by an operator at a location the contribution would be useful. Advance coordination is particularly advisable for larger machines, unusual materials or equipment that requires space, maintenance or specific facilities.
Learn more about materials, equipment and other contributions
A company or other professional party can also contribute financially or substantively to development within an existing project. The funding then makes work within that project possible and does not automatically become a separate custom assignment for the funding party.
Nocterra is a good example. A collaborating organisation can financially enable development that fits within the further development of Nocterra. The resulting functionality becomes part of the project itself and can therefore also be used more broadly.
The same principle can apply to other projects. We first look at what work fits within the project and which development is useful there. It can then be agreed what knowledge, practical contribution or funding a collaborating party makes available for that work.
Collaboration with a company can also concern an employee who is at risk of dropping out of work, has already dropped out or wants to begin building up activities again carefully. In such a situation, it can be explored whether participation in suitable work of the foundation or one of its projects can provide a useful alternative environment.
This is not a conventional reintegration service, nor is it a programme in which work-related production is the starting point. The value may instead lie in simple but important things: having a reason to leave the house again, arriving at an agreed time, meeting other people, having something to do and gradually rebuilding confidence and routine.
Which activity is suitable differs from person to person. Someone does not need to be productive as though they were already fully back at work. The aim is meaningful participation without performance pressure, within work that genuinely exists within the organisation or its projects.
When an operator implements the shareable work model of the project The Owl’s Nest at a location, someone may, for example, help welcome people, contribute to a coffee corner, assist around a workshop or become involved in activities in another simple way. Which possibilities exist depends on that concrete implementation.
Other people may be better suited to software development, documentation, administration, websites, communication or project preparation. Such work can be found within the work of ASK-Solutions itself or within a suitable project.
The activity can be used to rebuild attendance, structure, social contact and confidence. What someone produces is not the measure of success; the activity should primarily fit what is possible and helpful at that particular time.
Sometimes someone also receives treatment, guidance or other professional support. These roles remain separate. The relevant practitioner or professional remains responsible for their own professional work; ASK-Solutions does not take over that treatment or guidance.
It can, however, be coordinated whether participation in the public-benefit work of ASK-Solutions or one of its projects is appropriate alongside that treatment or guidance. This may, for example, involve routine, social contact, attendance, self-confidence and gradually taking part in activities again.
The project The Owl’s Nest is one of the projects in which such participation may be possible. The project is built around a shareable work model. Operators can implement that model at different locations, with different activities, capabilities and possibilities for participation available in each implementation.
ASK-Solutions is itself one of those operators. At locations where ASK-Solutions implements the work model, it can therefore be explored which practical, technical, social or organisational activities may suit someone. Participation does not, however, have to take place through the project The Owl’s Nest: someone may instead contribute to other public-benefit work of ASK-Solutions, for example in software development, administration, documentation or organisational work.
For practitioners, practices and other professionals who themselves guide or treat people, we describe this form of collaboration in more detail on our care and treatment page. The project website of The Owl’s Nest also describes the work model and how professionals can connect with operators and concrete locations.
Learn more about the project The Owl’s Nest, the shareable work model and opportunities for collaboration with operators that implement the model at different locations.
See how practitioners, practices and other professionals can collaborate with ASK-Solutions when participation forms part of broader treatment or guidance.
Sponsorship is a particular form of contribution in which it is agreed in advance that an appropriate form of visibility or acknowledgement will be provided in connection with a financial or material contribution.
This makes sponsorship different from donating or collaborating in another way. With a donation, money or materials are contributed voluntarily without an agreed consideration. In other forms of collaboration, parties each contribute from their own role to joint work or a shared objective. With sponsorship, the contribution is specifically accompanied by an agreed form of visibility.
These forms can exist alongside one another. A company may, for example, make materials available without any consideration, allow an employee to share knowledge and additionally sponsor a particular part of a project.
With financial sponsorship, money is made available for a project, activity, facility or concrete implementation and appropriate visibility is agreed in connection with that contribution.
A financial sponsor may, for example, be mentioned on a relevant project page, alongside an activity, in a publication or in connection with a video. The acknowledgement is linked to the context for which the contribution is actually intended.
Materials can also be made available as sponsorship. A supplier may, for example, contribute wood, metal, filament, parts or consumables and be acknowledged as a sponsor in connection with that contribution.
The visibility should relate as closely as possible to the work in which the materials are used. Within the project The Owl’s Nest, for example, a contribution may be intended for the implementation of the shareable work model by a particular operator at a particular location. An acknowledgement connected to that concrete implementation is then more appropriate than a general acknowledgement for the entire project.
A manufacturer, supplier or other company can also make machines, tools or equipment available. This can take the form of a donation, long-term provision or another agreed arrangement.
Here too, sponsorship is linked to the work for which the equipment is actually used. If equipment is used by an operator implementing the shareable work model of the project The Owl’s Nest at a particular location, the sponsor acknowledgement can be placed in connection with that concrete implementation. For equipment used by another project, the sponsorship instead belongs within the context of that project.
ASK-Solutions does not use a single organisation-wide sponsorship model in which a fixed amount automatically entitles a sponsor to a fixed amount of advertising. Projects, contributions and concrete implementations differ too much for that approach.
A contribution to Bōzuki, for example, calls for a different form of visibility than a contribution to Nocterra. The project The Owl’s Nest is also built around a shareable work model that can be implemented by different operators at different locations. A sponsorship contribution intended for one concrete implementation of that work model therefore does not automatically constitute sponsorship of the project The Owl’s Nest as a whole.
We therefore first look at the work for which the contribution is intended and who is responsible for its concrete implementation. An appropriate form of visibility can then be determined.
If you would like to contribute financially without agreed visibility or other consideration, a donation is the appropriate route.
Does your company have knowledge, resources, space or an idea it would like to contribute? We can look together at which work or project would be the best fit.
Learn more about materials, parts, equipment, space, financial contributions and other resources you can contribute.
Would you like to contribute financially without agreed consideration or visibility? View the options for making a voluntary donation.
Professionals can also voluntarily contribute their own time, knowledge and professional expertise to ASK-Solutions or one of its projects.
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