View the Resource By Amy O’Connor, Michelle Shumate, Rong Wang Using an experimental design with non-fictitious organizations, we examine how stakeholders (N = 845) describe corporations and nonprofits. We interrogate the types of words stakeholders include in their mind maps of corporations and nonprofits prior to receiving information about a partnership. Descriptive results indicate that nonprofits received more concepts than corporations the three most popular categories were product or service,

View the Resource By Yannick Atouba, Michelle Shumate Human services nonprofits increasingly provide a social safety net through interorganizational collaboration, and the effectiveness of these partnerships has important implications for the quality and sufficiency of those services. The purpose of this study is to investigate whether partner selection is related to partnership effectiveness and, if so, how. More specifically, the study examines the impact of partner selection on partnership effectiveness

View the Resource By Michelle Shumate, Amy O’Connor, Rong Wang This simulation is designed to help students identify toxic node behavior, contain the influence of toxic nodes and determine how to resolve conflicts.The scenario involves a grant awarded to partners representing public schools, private schools, local nonprofits and city government to improve student educational and socio-emotional outcomes.Students receive a common scenario, instructions for the simulation and an introduction to all

View the Resource By Nina F. O’Brien, Andrew Pilny, Yannick Atouba, Michelle Shumate, Janet L. Fulk, Peter R. Monge Scholars suggest three partnering strategies that nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) can use to pursue strategic relationships in civil society networks: (a) the development of overlapping ties associated with network closure, (b) adopting an intermediary role between two disconnected organizations associated with brokerage, and (c) complying with the match-making demands of third-party organizations.

By: Michelle Shumate About a month ago, I had the opportunity to share my thoughts on the ways that funders influence the outcomes of nonprofit collaboration. I’ve synthesized some of my comments below and there’s a link to the full panel video at the bottom of this post.  What do we know about philanthropy and social impact and its connections to networks and collaboration? We know that both the philanthropic

View the Resource By Elizabeth Graddy, Christine M. Beckman, Tina Dacin, Michelle Shumate The symposium, Philanthropy & Social Impact is organized by the USC’s Sol Price School of Public Policy, home of The Center on Philanthropy and Public Policy.The symposium is conceived based on the premise that despite a growing understanding of how philanthropy, nonprofit organizations, and social innovation can advance social change, there have been too few opportunities to