Beyond the Buzzwords: Creating True Partnership for Your Community

Published on Nov 18, 2015

Thoughts on nonprofit partnership and how to really make them useful, and not just something to check off.

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Beyond the Buzzwords

Creating Partnership for the Community

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Buzzwords we love to hate

  • Collaboration
  • Synergy
  • Win-win
  • ROI
  • Capacity building
  • Logic model

What's the goal?

Giving money away

is harder than it looks
Photo by athrasher

Pet Peeves

  • Organizations weren't aware of each other
  • They were duplicating services
  • They had a sense of entitlement
  • They couldn't tell me how they made things better

What's the goal?

Be more effective

by working together

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What makes a good partnership

  • Common mission and values
  • Unique assets you bring
  • Clear, equitable division of labor and responsibility
  • Long(ish)-term, specific commitment
  • Don't try to change the other

What's the goal?

Make our communities better

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Alice Ferris, MBA, CFRE, ACFRE
GoalBusters LLC
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alice@goalbusters.net
@aliceferris