Sustained Collaboration

Sustained Collaboration Network Podcast – Ep 3: How to Build a Shared Service Collaborative: Lessons from ECOST

View the Resource By NNSI Editorial Team In this episode, we are talking about shared service collaboratives. Shared service collaboratives occur when organizations coordinate activities to create more efficient or higher-quality operations. This episode features a conversation with Marjorie Murat, CEO of Dallas Afterschool, and Errika Flood-Moultrie, founder and CE0 of Connections Multiplied and Connections Multiplied, Too. They describe the Early Childhood and Out-of-School Time (ECOST) workforce development program, where early childhood, summer, and afterschool programs share

Sustained Collaboration Network Podcast – Ep 2: Mergers for Greater Mission Impact: The Rebuilding Exchange

View the Resource By NNSI Editorial Team In this episode, we focus on mergers, an underutilized tool for social impact in the nonprofit sector. This episode features an interview with Aina Gutierrez, Executive Director of the Rebuilding Exchange, and Lauri Alpern, President of Open Door Advisors. They talk about the process and results of the merger they led between the Chicago Rebuilding Exchange and the Evanston Rebuilding Warehouse. The merger was supported

How Mergers and Asset Transfers Promote Sustained Collaboration Between Nonprofit Leaders

Collaboration can be a powerful tool for effecting meaningful change in nonprofit organizations. However, social impact leaders have become fatigued with mandates and incentives to collaborate without a clear purpose. After all, many joint ventures are unsuccessful, posing risks of resource waste and inefficiency while potentially eroding stakeholder trust and commitment. In hopes of changing this negative perception, the Sustained Collaboration Network (SCN) was launched in 2017 by nonprofit funders

Sustained Collaboration Network Podcast – Ep 1: The Support Sustained Collaborations Need to be Successful

View the Resource By NNSI Editorial Team In this podcast episode, host Michelle Shumate talks to four initiative managers from the Sustained Collaboration Network: Nora Hannah – Arizona Together for Impact Kate Piatt-Eckert – Mission Sustainability Initiative Karen LaShelle – Austin Together Olivia Benson – Forbes Fund They talk about how Sustained Collaboration can be a tool for greater social impact and share stories of successful initiatives supported by each

Collaborative Networks: The Next Frontier in Data Driven Management

View the Resource By Julia Carboni, Catherine Annis, Mariana Escallon Barrios, Zachary Gibson, Joshua Miles, Nicholas Armstrong, Gilly Cantor, Karen Smilowitz, Michelle Shumate Collaborative networks to deliver services are ubiquitous where public policy or management challenges require the efforts of multiple organizations to solve a problem or assist clients with complex needs. While guidance on how to manage networks abounds, much of it is limited to strategies focused on network

Interorganizational Network Portfolios of Nonprofit Organizations: Implications for Collaboration Management

View the Resource By Sophia Fu, Katherine R. Cooper Increasingly, nonprofit organizations engage in interorganizational collaboration to address large-scale social problems. Scholarship typically focuses on the characteristics of both within-sector and cross-sector partnerships of two collaborating organizations or all partnering organizations involved in a collaboration, but we know little about the patterns of interorganizational relationships that single nonprofit organizations maintain. This research draws upon surveys from 452 nonprofits and introduces nonprofit