Forging Nonprofit Alliances

A Comprehensive Guide to Enhancing Your Mission Through Joint Ventures & Partnerships, Management Service Organizations, Parent Corporations, and Mergers
1. Auflage 1998
ISBN: 978-0-7879-1003-7
Verlag: Wiley

Buch, Englisch, 220 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 501 g

This insightful guide shows how by joining forces, nonprofits can use consolidation as a strategic tool to enhance, rather than undermine mission. As nonprofits find ways to increase effectiveness in services and fundraising and face the growing competition for limited resources, they can focus on their real goal-serving their constituents.

Arsenault explores the various options for consolidation-including joint ventures and partnerships, management service organizations, parent corporations, and mergers. She also details the negotiation process and demonstrates how to design and frame the consolidation process in a positive and constructive way for staff, donors, and constituents. Written for nonprofit managers and boards, Forging Nonprofit Alliances determines which options are right for an organization and clearly defines the roles and responsibilities of all members of nonprofit board and staff in planning and implementing an alliance.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Arsenault, Jane

Inhaltsverzeichnis

WHEN MISSION MATTERS MOST.

Discovering Strategic Opportunities.

Preparing for Organizational Change.

UNDERSTANDING ALLIANCE OPTIONS.

Joint Ventures and Partnerships.

Management Service Organizations.

Parent Corporations.

Mergers.

NEGOTIATING AND IMPLEMENTING AGREEMENTS.

Conducting Exploratory Negotiations with Possible Partners.

Negotiating a Formal Agreement.

Designing the New Governance Structure.

Integrating Corporate Cultures.

Finalizing Definitive Agreements and Planning the Transition.

Resources.

A. The MacMillan Matrix.

B. Outline for a Request for Proposals: Partner Search.

C. Worksheet for Constructing a Response Policy.

D. Sample Letter of Intent.

E. Focus Group Questions.

Über Autor(innen)

JANE ARSENAULT has served as a management consultant for nonprofit organizations and organizations that fund nonprofits for the last eighteen years. She has concentrated her practice in five key areas: collaboration and mergers, strategic planning and market analysis, program evaluation, governance, and conflict management. She began her career in nonprofit consulting as the founder of MAP of the United Way of Southeastern New England and recently served as executive director of The Support Center of Rhode Island.