Creating Value in Nonprofit-Business Collaborations: New Thinking and Practice
Collaboration between nonprofits and businesses has become a necessary component of strategy and operations. Creating Value in Nonprofit-Business Collaborations provides breakthrough thinking about how to conceptualize and realize collaborative value. With over a hundred case examples from around the world, the book reveals how collaboration between businesses and nonprofit organizations can most effectively co-create significant economic, social, and environmental value for society, organizations, and individuals. This essential resource features the groundbreaking Collaborative Value Creation framework that can be used for analyzing the value of partnerships between businesses and nonprofits. The book provides step-by-step guidance to business managers and nonprofit practitioners for achieving successful cross-sector partnerships. It identifies the needed Collaborative Mindsets, analyzes the drivers of partnership development along the Collaboration Continuum, sets forth the key partnering pathways in the Collaboration Process Value Chain, delineates multidimensional Collaboration Outcomes, and offers Twelve Smart Practices of Collaboration Value Creation.