"Coming Together is a Beginning - Keeping Together is Progress - Working Together is Success."

Working under the principle that you can accomplish amazing things if you don't care who gets the credit, the Venetian Institute will be ready to collaborate and pool resources with individuals and organizations interested in bringing about institutional, social and economic changes in the Venices* based on the principles of individual liberty, institutional integrity, free enterprise, limited government and commonwealth.

Although we will always be clear about our objectives and will give priority to supporting and engaging in programmes which advance these objectives, we will focus on shared goals and will be ready to accept and support other organizations' proposals and projects as a basis for the Venetian Institute's own decisions.

There are no hard and fast rules about the structure of a partnership. Coming together from different organizational structures and cultures implies that the partnership must be flexible to accommodate different ways of operating and different capabilities. It should not be thought that once a partnership is formed it will achieve success overnight or that there is a simple and easy route to follow from the start. Although a frame for collaboration may have already been agreed upon, certain ideas may prove unworkable or opportunities may be missed, leading to a different direction from what is initially envisaged.

Most certainly, a number of difficulties will be encountered, some minor and some of a fundamental nature. Fundamental difficulties will probably lead to drastic decisions, while lesser difficulties will be taken in stride and resolved along the way as a partnership gradually lays the basis for a hopefully flourishing and long-lasting collaboration.