Sustained Collaboration

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

Meeting the Challenge of Effectiveness in Nonprofit Partnerships: Examining the Roles of Partner Selection, Trust, and Communication

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

How Do Funders Influence the Outcomes of Nonprofit Collaboration?

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

Philanthropy & Social Impact: Working Together: Organizations, Partnerships and Networks

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

Nonprofit Merger Study Released: Implications for Nonprofit Management

By NNSI Editorial Team Nonprofit mergers are often presented as a last-ditch attempt to save organizations that would otherwise be forced to close. A new study on nonprofit mergers instead explores the possibility of mergers as a nonprofit strategy to achieve the mission and increase outcomes. NNSI researchers Kate Cooper and Rey Maktoufi worked with Professor Don Haider of the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University to conduct the

NNSI Research Report: How to Expand Chinese NGO Collaborative Partnerships?

By NNSI Editorial Team As collaborative partnerships become commonplace for Chinese nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) to address a variety of complex social problems and foster the development of the Chinese civil society, the question of how they can expand their partnerships emerges. A recent study by NNSI researchers, Sophia Fu and Michelle Shumate, highlight the significance of guanxi to help Chinese NGOs expand their collaboration networks and increase social impact. Fu