Today it's easier than ever to gather demographic information about your audiences. It's essential to know your audience to best target your educational programs. Informal questioning is great in addition to statistics, but don't rely too much on hunches. The five levels of connections are networking, cooperation, coordination, coalition and collaboration. Networking is dialog and common understanding.
Cooperation is to provide coordination and limit duplication of services.
Coordination is sharing resources to address common issues. Coalition is all members involved in decision making, roles and time defined and it links formal with written agreement. Collaboration is to accomplish a shared vision and consensus used in shared decision making. On some programs, you may network with other agencies and organizations simply to reach the target audience to deliver your program. But other programs may truly be collaborative efforts where several groups develop and deliver a program together.