Comeback Lines to Collaboration Objectors

Tuesday, January 12, 2010 at 09:24AM | by Amy Sample Ward

Stanford Social Innovation Review
Click here to download "The Reality Underneath the Buzz of Partnerships: The potentials and pitfalls of partnering" by Francie Ostrower published in 2005:
http://www.ssireview.org/articles/entry/the_reality_underneath_the_buzz_of_partnerships/
Marie Deatherage

Local Leadership

From the W K Kellogg Foundation, read "Rethinking Nonprofit Partnerships: Lessons learned help groups do better job of collaborating" by David Whelan.

http://www.leadershiponlinewkkf.org/local/news/rethinking.asp

Amy Sample Ward

Noprofit Mergers, Consolidations, and/or Partnerships

Additionally , here are some resources from other organizations that may interest you.

Grantcraft: http://www.grantcraft.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=Page.viewPage&pageID=598
Boston Globe: http://www.boston.com/business/articles/2006/04/06/nonprofit_mergers_catch_in_region/
GEO: http://www.lapiana.org/research/funders.html
Nonprofit Marketing Blog: http://www.nonprofitmarketingblog.com/comments/guest_star_blogger_bill_strathmann_why_arent_we_merging_more/
Tropman Report (Funder Recommendations at the end): http://www.forbesfunds.org/docs/Tropman2007/NonprofitMergers.pdf
Women's Foundation of California: http://www.spa.ucla.edu/ccs/webfiles/GoodPractices/doc/Women's%20Foundation%20of%20CA%20Merger%20Good%20Practice.pdf
Hawaii Community Foundation: http://www.hawaiicommunityfoundation.org/doc_bin/publications/Mergers_full.pdf
United Way: http://epic.cuir.uwm.edu/NONPROFIT/collaboration.pdf
Stanford Social Innovation Review: http://www.ppnd.org/documents/TheMergerProposal-BeforeYouSayIDo.pdf (Counterpoint Article)
Centerpointe Institute: http://www.centerpointinstitute.com/Projects/Tools/ToolsConfOct03/MeetingProceedings/Workshops/Collaboration/InstCollabDesc.pdf