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Recommended Resource - In 2002, the Peter F. Drucker Foundation for
Nonprofit Management (now the Leader-to-Leader Institute) published
Meeting the Collaboration Challenge Workbook: Developing Strategic
Alliances Between Nonprofit Organizations and Businesses, a
workbook supplement to The Collaboration Challenge. The workbook
features step-by-step guidance on developing a strategic plan for
partnerships. To learn more about this resource, go to http://www.amazon.com
or visit http://www.fastennetwork.org/qryArticleDetail.asp?
ArticleId=2DC1DF4C-AAFD-4073-914C-6DAA24A54998. A downloadable,
PDF version of the workbook is available at http://www.pfdf.org/collaboration/index.html.
Recommended Resource - Authored by Paul W. Mattessich, Marta Murray-Close,
and Barbara R. Monsey (2001), Collaboration: What Makes It Work,
provides examples of successful collaborations and documented research
to support the factors that impact success among partners. Purchase
it at http://www.amazon.com.
Read more details about the book at http://www.fastennetwork.org/qryArticleDetail.asp?
ArticleId=79248838-4405-4509-8463-F5A8F1D84FEC.
Factors Influencing the Success of Collaboration - This PDF file (adapted
from Collaboration: What Makes It Work?) identifies 20 success
factors commonly associated with effective nonprofit collaborations
with government agencies, other organizations, and businesses. To
access the PDF file, go to http://www.pfdf.org/collaboration/challenge/pdfs/mtcc-appxc.pdf.
Partnering for Sustainability - This report, Partnering for Sustainability:
Managing Nonprofit Organization-Corporate Environmental Alliances,
outlines the factors that contribute to the most effective collaborations.
The report is based on a study by researchers at The Frank Hawkins
Kenan Institute of Private Enterprise. Researchers explored the
experience and interactions, both adversarial and collaborative,
between environmental nonprofits and corporations, and the factors
that determine success.
http://www.kenaninstitute.unc.edu/aspeninstitutereport.pdf
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