General Collaboration

Articles, Excerpts, Tips & More
Faith in Partnership: Lessons from the Winning Models of 2005 “Partners in Transformation” Awards: This report profiles the ten state winners and offers insights on promising practices.
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Pastors: All you need to know to collaborate : Collaboration should be a win-win situation for everyone involved. Government, faith-based organizations and congregations are all in the service-delivery system of helping people.
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Being There: Faith on the Frontlines: This report profiles the nine winners and offers insights on promising practices.
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Recommended Books
Meeting the Collaboration Challenge Workbook: This workbook is the companion volume to The Collaboration Challenge and includes a collection of fourteen practical worksheets that help leaders of nonprofit organizations prepare to collaborate with businesses, plan and develop strategic alliances with them, and periodically renew such alliances.
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Changing Communities through Faith in Action: Symposium Report One: This publication is a report on a landmark symposium of public administrators, community organizations, the police, federal agencies and faith-based nonprofits who gathered in Boston in spring 2002 to reflect on the contributions made by FBOs in deterring youth violence and promoting social healing.
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Collaboration: What Makes it Work?: This workbook provides a detailed description of factors influencing successful collaboration.
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The Collaboration Challenge: How Nonprofits and Businesses Succeed Through Alliances: This resource is a broad overview of successful collaboration between business and nonprofit organizations. It documents in some depth the experience of over fifteen strategic business and nonprofit alliances and establishes a basis for understanding the nature and development of cross-sector collaborations.
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Collaboration Handbook: Creating, Sustaining and Enjoying the Journey: The Handbook is a detailed, thorough, easy-to-read “how-to” guide that presents an overview of collaboration from start to finish.
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Recommended Links
Interfaith Community Ministries Network: The Interfaith Community Ministry Network (ICMN) is “a national network of community ministries--ecumenical and interfaith--created to provide a link for mutual support, leadership development, and promotion of community-based, cooperative ministry.” Visit this site to find out more about ICMN’s mission, members, services, and its partnership with the volunteer-oriented Points of Light Foundation.
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