Videos and Recordings

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

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

SEAOHUN Sustainable Networks

View the Resource By Michelle Shumate In this keynote, Professor Shumate describes how to make networks more sustainable. She identifies familiar crossroads moments that all networks face and addresses the questions networks should answer when they enter a crossroads moment. The keynote ends with a discussion of how the governance of international networks can make them more or less sustainable over time.

Supporting Your Network’s Theory of Change with KPIs

View the Resource By Michelle Shumate In this view-on-demand mini-class, Professor Shumate describes how networks can use data to drive social impact. She highlights the differences between leading and lagging indicators for each type of theory of change. She ends the video with guidance on choosing the right indicators for your network.

Pathways Mapping a Theory of Change

View the Resource By Michelle Shumate In this view-on-demand mini-class, Professor Shumate introduces pathways mapping, a tool to help networks understand their theory of change. Network leaders will learn about the elements of a theory of change and then use the tools of backward design to help them generate their theory of change.

The Expansion of Coordination and Navigation Systems: What Do Veteran Collaboratives Need to Know

View the Resource By Michelle Shumate, Gilly Cantor, Nick Armstrong, Megan Andros In this view-on-demand webinar, produced by the Institute for Veterans and Military Families, key veteran leaders describe how the landscape of care coordination is changing and what veterans organizations should do to take advantage of these changes. Professor Shumate introduces care coordination and the incomplete timeline of policy related to care coordination.