Collaboration

Who’s Getting Paid to Advance Grantee Inclusion?

By Chris Cardona 1

It’s time to recognize how inequity shapes funders’ choice of partners.

Grantee Inclusion: What’s It All About?

By Lori Bartczak

Including grantees in decision-making, program-building, and strategy is critical to effective social impact. While the things grantmakers “do” are important, authentic inclusion also requires that they embrace a new mindset.

What’s Your Exit, er, Commitment Strategy?

By Matthew Forti 6

There are conditions under which nonprofits, even those pursuing transformative scale, will find commitment strategies—rather than exit strategies—to be the right answer for their direct service programs.

Are You Sure You Should Be Launching Another Partnership?

By Darin Kingston, Andrew Stern, & Joanne Ke 1

For funders and founders thinking about launching a multi-stakeholder initiative for social impact, the question of "whether" is just as important as "how."

Why Rewarding Leaders Might Hurt Collaboration

By Hilary Pennington 2

It’s time for the nonprofit sector to create new models for recognizing individual leaders without compromising the collective efforts, movements, and environment of inclusion that they are trying to build.

Catching the Wave

By Chad Nelsen & Nancy Eiring 1

How a powerful communications strategy helped the Surfrider Foundation and a coalition of other organizations mobilize a local grassroots effort and save a rare natural resource.

Four Questions to Ask Before You Engage with a Network

By Anna Muoio & Kaitlin Terry 1

Funders want to create big change by using networks for social impact. But where to start?