By Jo DeBolt
This article describes interesting trends in data gleamed from The Collaboration Prize, an initiative created by by The Lodestar Foundation. The Collaboration Prize selection process was managed by La Piana Consulting and spotlights collaborations among two or more nonprofit organizations.
{loadposition user5}
By Melissa Mendes Campos
Another installment of the CausePlanet nonprofit leadership series, this article discusses how smart goal setting and tracking of progress is essential for leveraging your organization’s ability to inspire.
{loadposition user5}
Real Collaboration is a guide for grantmakers — written by David La Piana in January 2001 at the request of the Ford Foundation — that makes recommendations on how program officers can make better, more effective use of collaboration among grantees.
Strategic Restructuring for Nonprofit Organizations: Mergers, Integrations, and Alliances
In 1999, La Piana Associates, in collaboration with the Chapin Hall Center for Children (a policy research institution at the University of Chicago ), conducted the largest ever national study on strategic restructuring in the nonprofit sector. The study was funded by the Nonprofit Sector Research Fund of the Aspen Institute and the Lilly Endowment.
Phase II of the national study was completed in 2002. It involves in-depth case studies of six strategic restructuring partnerships, as well as a survey of a random sample of nonprofits in two different cities to look at the prevalence of strategic restructuring in those areas. In addition, the research team conducted interviews with 20 national leaders in the nonprofit and philanthropic sector, asking them to share their reflections on the implications of the preliminary results for the future of the sector.
The findings of this research are included in a book — Strategic Restructuring for Nonprofit Organizations: Mergers, Integrations, and Alliances — by Amelia Kohm and David La Piana, published by Praeger Publishers in November 2003. The book provides nonprofit managers, board members, consultants, and foundation executives with research-based information to use in making tough decisions about whether and how to pursue a range of organizational partnerships — from jointly managed programs and consolidated administrative functions, to full-scale mergers.
Strategic Restructuring for Nonprofit Organizations is available for purchase at Amazon.com. http://www.amazon.com
Download a PDF copy of the Phase 1 report from the Chapin Hall Center for Children website http://www.chapinhall.org
