Miami
Bank-Nonprofit Alliance Launches Worker Co-op Initiative in Miami
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In Miami, a national bank and a leading human service agency join forces to support the development of worker cooperative businesses as a poverty-reduction strategy.
Collaboration
The Role of the Board in Nonprofit Strategic Alliances
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This fun and informative webinar discusses the role of the board in crafting various types of strategic alliances between nonprofits. There’s been a significant cultural shift in the way we view these arrangements—one that deeply informs practice.
Collaboration
Creating Fertile Soil for the Merger Option
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It may be that one of the reasons that mergers are not approached with more enthusiasm is because they are being sold more negatively than they should be. Approaching them as a strength-promoting proposition might work better, no? That said…
Policy & Government
A Public School That Not Only Keeps Children Safe, But Heals
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While proposals to turn schools into fortresses in the name of safety are absurd, promoting true safety and a community of care is more challenging. A low-income neighborhood school in San Diego shows how it can be done. At Cherokee Point Elementary, teachers, administrators, and staff have embraced a “trauma-informed school” model—with dramatic results in terms of both disciplinary and academic achievement. It is a model gaining traction across the nation.
Networks
The Rebirth of a Nonprofit Is Based on the Network It Served
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Nonprofits should pay close attention to what happened after the closing of Architecture for Humanity. There’s a lot to learn about organizational design.
Board Development
Doing More with More: Putting Shared Leadership into Practice
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AN NPQ CLASSIC: This article reveals the critical environmental factors in some nonprofits that create fertile ground for shared leadership.
Nonprofit Management
One Nonprofit Partnership Supports Two Different Missions
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Community approaches to problem solving can take many forms; in this arena, nonprofits benefit from their ability to be nimble and creative. A school and a land conservancy have done just that, signing a memorandum of understanding for an agreement that helps both organizations.
Board Governance
Windows of Collaborative Opportunity: Considerations of Governance
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How do nonprofit–public partnerships form, and how are they governed? This important article analyzes the often limited life cycle of such collaborations, which can be challenged by complex power dynamics. After you’re done, enjoy some other articles in this month’s governance series.
Collaboration
DC Region Unites to Nab Amazon’s HQ2: Will It Bring Peace or More Strife?
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Of the 20 finalists for the online giant’s second headquarters, three are in the capital area, and they are thinking of working together to make their bids more attractive.
Why Philanthropy Is Interested in Facebook’s Social Data
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This partnership joins the social media giant, academic researchers, and several large foundations in an attempt to radically reshape the state of research on social media, civic engagement, and political participation. With that comes some risk.