Meeting the Collaboration Challenge Workbook: Developing Strategic Alliances Between Nonprofit Organizations and Businesses - Softcover

Drucker, Peter F.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0787962317 ISBN 13: 9780787962319

Publisher: Jossey-Bass, 2002

Synopsis

In his award-winning book The Collaboration Challenge, James E. Austin demonstrated how nonprofits and businesses can succeed through strategic alliances. Now, in Meeting the Collaboration Challenge, the Drucker Foundation provides specific guidance to help nonprofits of every size put collaboration into practice. This workbook, its companion videotape, and The Collaboration Challenge help your nonprofit organization further its mission through strategic alliances with businesses.

About this title

From the Publisher:

"The workbook is a valuable read for any budding social entrepreneur and it is a wonderful companion to the book."
--Richard Steckel, AddVenture Network, Inc.

Praise for The Collaboration Challenge

"Austin has performed a valuable service for nonprofit organizations and their corporate partners by illuminating the dynamics of successful relationships. His useful book deserves to be widely read by leaders in both sectors concerned about increasing the effectiveness of their social action agenda."
--Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Harvard Business School, author of World Class and Rosabeth Moss Kanter on the Frontiers of Management

"The entire nonprofit sector has been searching for the expertise and tools this book provides. Nothing else like it exists."
--Bill Shore, executive director of Share-Our-Strength and author of The Cathedral Within and Revolution of the Heart

From the Back Cover:

In his award-winning book The Collaboration Challenge, James E. Austin demonstrated how nonprofits and businesses can succeed through strategic alliances. Now, in Meeting the Collaboration Challenge, the Drucker Foundation provides specific guidance to help nonprofits of every size put collaboration into practice. This workbook, its companion videotape, and The Collaboration Challenge help your nonprofit organization further its mission through strategic alliances with businesses.
Meeting the Collaboration Challenge emphasizes the assets and capabilities that nonprofit organizations bring to alliances with business. It presents a four-phase process of preparing your organization for alliances, planning alliances, developing alliances, and renewing alliances. Each phase is intended to encourage participation in successful nonprofit-business alliances and to organize information and guide discussions about them. Its practical resources help to:

• Identify assets and capabilities a nonprofit might provide and benefits it might seek in alliances
• Review strategic goals and readiness for developing alliances
• Research each potential alliance to assess strategic fit and opportunities
• Discover additional businesses with which a nonprofit might create alliances
• Design a marketing approach for each alliance
• Develop the management plan for each alliance
• Appraise each alliance and its potential

Through this systematic process for developing your nonprofit's alliances with businesses, you can build collaboration that benefits both partners and the customers and communities they serve.

About this edition

• Publisher: Jossey-Bass
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0787962317
• ISBN 13: 9780787962319
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 96