Leadership
Walking Away
An excerpt from Letting Go of Your Nonprofit on the leadership patterns of mission-centered leaders.
Excerpt
Jean Butzen
Nonprofit Management
The Rise of Nonprofit Administrative Collaborations
A look at Community Service Partners and how admin collaborations are quietly changing the nonprofit landscape every day.
Foundations
Nonprofit Collaboration and Allowing What Can Be
A look at the new Patterson Foundation.
Nonprofit Management
Merger Secrets to Success
New research identifies some of the factors that make nonprofit mergers work.
Foundations
Local Library or Management Service Organization?
Indiana’s Foellinger Foundation is using free library services to boost grantee effectiveness.
Philanthropy
Not All Nonprofit Mergers Are Created Equal
Lessons from the Community Catalyst Fund in Charlotte, North Carolina.
Nonprofit Management
Shared Space Strategies: An Interview with China Brotsky
Q&A with a visionary leader in the national shared spaces movement.
Nonprofits
Sharing Nonprofit Collaboration Knowledge and Experience
A new resource helps nonprofits share collaboration knowledge.
Collaboration
Expand Your Nonprofit’s Mission Through Co-Location
There are some great mission advantages to sharing space with other organizations.
Philanthropy
Funding Collaboration
The Catalyst Fund’s Manager, Peter Kramer, explains the fund’s goal and application process for nonprofit collaborations.
Nonprofit Management
Nonprofit Mergers: Are You Negotiating with the Right Party?
When deciding to merge with another nonprofit, you must take into account the other organization's management.
Foundations
A New Source for Funding Nonprofit Mergers and Collaborations
A look into the merger of Lodestar Foundation and Sea Change Capital Partners to examine what defines "sensible collaboration" between nonprofits.
Nonprofits
One Nonprofit Closure: The Missed Merger Opportunity
If you believe you are headed toward a merger, start the process sooner rather than later.
Nonprofit Management
I Gain and You Gain: The Emergence of “Smart Power” Strategies in the Nonprofit Sector
How can we work together in the nonprofit sector to produce results that we can all benefit from?
Nonprofits
Tipping Point for A National Movement for ECE Shared Services
The Shared Services business model has something to offer small nonprofits that need to maintain their independence and community linkages.
Nonprofits
Shared Services Alliances: Part 3
Early Learning Ventures Alliances is a community-based partnership model allows small early care providers to share costs and deliver services efficiently.
Collaboration
Shared Services Alliances: Part 2
A look at nonprofit back-office integrations, or Shared Service Alliances.
Nonprofits
Shared Services Alliances: Part 1
Creating back office alliances—an interview with John Weiser, a principal with the nonprofit technical assistance organization Opportunities Exchange.
Nonprofit Management
For Collaboration Geeks: The Lodestar Database on Collaboration Models Is Up and Running!
A new database resource offers nonprofit leaders the chance to search and explore successful collaboration strategies already being used in the field.
Interview
An Example of Strategic Mergers in the Nonprofit Sector: Arizona Children’s Association
An interview with the CEO of Arizona Children's Association on the organization's merger strategy.
Government
Federal Bailout Spending Creates Public/Private Collaboration Opportunities
The Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning is an example of government collaboration.
Nonprofits
Nonprofit Mergers: New Donor Quality Metric? North Carolina Story May Suggest So
Ideas for increasing the impact of nonprofits through value-driven mergers, partnerships and management
Nonprofits
New Publication: Merge Minnesota, a Great Resource to Any Nonprofit Investigating Mergers
Merge Minnesota: Nonprofit Merger as an Opportunity for Survival and Growth published by MAP for Nonprofits proves a useful source of information about the merging process of nonprofits.
Nonprofits
Three Museums in One
The author interviews board chair, Frank-Paul King, about the decision to merge the three museums that now make up the Museum of Nature & Science.
Nonprofits
Data Mining from The Collaboration Prize Applicants
Collaboration Prize competition entries prove a rich resource for nonprofit mergers.
Nonprofits
Interview Collaboration Prize Co-Winners
Interview with Abby Suckow and Connie Torrey, Collaboration Prize co-winners from the JCC and YMCA of the Greater Toledo area.
Nonprofits
Prizes for Nonproft Mergers and Partnerships
An account of the recipients of the Lodestar Foundation and the Arizona-Indiana-Michigan Alliance (AIM)'s prize for the best nonprofit collaboration in the country.
Nonprofits
How to Fund Nonprofit Mergers and Partnerships
Mergers may require their own specific funding. The author recommends various sources for such funding.
Philanthropy
Making Nonprofit Collaboration a Foundation Strategy: The Lodestar Foundation
The Lodestar Foundation supports nonprofit collaborations, mergers, and other cooperative activities as a major strategy.
Nonprofits
A Trip Down Merger Lane
Thinking outside the fundraising box may involve a merger with a larger organization.
Nonprofits
Part 2: More on Why Hawaiian Nonprofits Said ‘Aloha’ to Distinctive Merger
The union of Maui Youth & Family Services, Aloha House, and Malama Family Recovery Center.
Nonprofits
An Interview with Jane Arsenault, Author of Forging Nonprofit Alliances
Arsenault shares how she has facilitated nonprofit mergers.
Nonprofits
Hawaiian Nonprofits Say Aloha to Merger
Three nonprofit mental health and substance abuse agencies in Hawaii consolidate.
Nonprofits
“I’m Not on Earth to Build Pillsbury United”
Management service organizations promise to lower operating costs for individual nonprofits and guarantee each organization’s independence.
Nonprofits
Sixty Ways to Leave Your Merger Partner or When a Board Just Can’t Say “I do”
Why nonprofits unmerge.
Nonprofits
A Touch of Sanity in the Chicago Nonprofit Sector
Members of Chicago's United Way have formed a cooperative to share back-office functions.
Philanthropy
More on Mergers, Ms. Miller!
Foundations need to create dedicated funding for nonprofit mergers and alliances.