December 2, 2016

Resource Type: Articles

Partner with Care and a Prenuptial Agreement

Throughout the year, countless brides and bridegrooms come join together, happily anticipating a lifetime of wedded bliss. Many nonprofits engage outside consultants and vendors in the hope that these “unions” will enable the nonprofit to achieve some aspect of its...

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December 2, 2016

Resource Type: Articles

Beyond the Bend in the Road

The Nonprofit Risk Management Center Offers Predictions for the Year Ahead Never content to live in the present, we humans are always either looking ahead or looking back. The excitement surrounding the dawn of a new century seems to have...

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December 2, 2016

Resource Type: Risk eNews

Best Friends Forever? Don’t Be a Naive or Disappointed Partner

At some point in our childhood, many of us share a ‘best friends’ gift with another person. For me, it was a set of necklaces that fit together like puzzle pieces. One necklace belonged to me, and the other belonged...

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November 29, 2016

Resource Type: Articles

Vetting Partner Organizations & Drafting MOUs

It takes more than a handshake between friends, neighbors or colleagues to ensure that collaboration will succeed. If your want to feel as good about your partners, the results and yourself coming out as going in to a joint project,...

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July 30, 2015

Resource Type: Webinars

Stir the Pot: Effectively Requesting Proposals and Evaluating Vendors

Do you have a current vendor who is just a bad egg? Do you have a program area where there are simply too many cooks in the kitchen? If your organization’s current vendors aren’t working out the way you’d like,...

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June 2, 2014

Resource Type: Webinars

Nonprofit Mergers: A Sum is Stronger than its Parts

Nonprofits merge for a variety of reasons. Common motivations to merge include: the opportunity to more efficiently serve a shared constituency, as a response to funder pressure, or to prevent the mission of an organization in decline from disappearing altogether....

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April 6, 2011

Resource Type: Webinars

Managing Partnership and Collaboration Risk: What You Need to Know

Partnering is second nature for many nonprofit leaders. Yet enthusiasm for partnering may create blind spots that obscure our view. Without a clear picture nonprofit leaders with good intentions may stumble. This webinar will explore practical steps for sizing up...

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