Forging Nonprofit Alliances: A Comprehensive Guide to Enhancing Your Mission Through Joint Ventures & Partnerships, Management Service Organizations, Parent Corporations, and Mergers

In Forging Nonprofit Alliances, Jane Arsenault draws on her years of experience helping nonprofits join forces to show how nonprofits can use consolidation as a strategic tool to enhance rather than undermine mission. By forging alliances, nonprofits of all sizes can ensure the survival of key programs that may be threatened by shifts in funding and can attain necessary resources to pursue new opportunities. In addition, strategic alliances offer the potential to expand the reach and impact of organizations that already have substantial resources.
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. Whether your nonprofit is ready to embark on an alliance, is considering the possibility, or is trying to evaluate your options, this practical, detailed guide gives you the tools needed to understand and simplify this often contentious and intimidating process–and the means to work through it step by step.
In this comprehensive guide to enhancing mission, 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.
Arsenault′s practical advice, along with worksheets, examples, and sample documents, makes Forging Nonprofit Alliances an invaluable hands–on guide to one of the most difficult challenges facing nonprofits today. Arsenault shoes how to turn what is often perceived to be a necessary but negative process into a positive choice that will build stronger, healthier, and more effective nonprofit organizations.

Spis treści:
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.

Nota biograficzna:
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.

Okładka tylna:
In Forging Nonprofit Alliances, Jane Arsenault draws on her years of experience helping nonprofits join forces to show how nonprofits can use consolidation as a strategic tool to enhance rather than undermine mission. By forging alliances, nonprofits of all sizes can ensure the survival of key programs that may be threatened by shifts in funding and can attain necessary resources to pursue new opportunities. In addition, strategic alliances offer the potential to expand the reach and impact of organizations that already have substantial resources.
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. Whether your nonprofit is ready to embark on an alliance, is considering the possibility, or is trying to evaluate your options, this practical, detailed guide gives you the tools needed to understand and simplify this often contentious and intimidating process–and the means to work through it step by step.
In this comprehensive guide to enhancing mission, 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.
Arsenault′s practical advice, along with worksheets, examples, and sample documents, makes Forging Nonprofit Alliances an invaluable hands–on guide to one of the most difficult challenges facing nonprofits today. Arsenault shoes how to turn what is often perceived to be a necessary but negative process into a positive choice that will build stronger, healthier, and more effective nonprofit organizations.