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Understanding CollaborationFrom Scarcity to Abundance in the Not-for-Profit Sector
November 9, 2018
Presenter
Mark Friesen
Director, Capacity
Development
Vantage Point
@markalanfriesen
1. Understand why it might be valuable to collaborate
2. Define different approaches to collaboration
3. Identify steps to collaborate meaningfully
4. Identify and acquire some tools to support not-for-profit collaboration
Learning Outcomes
Why bother?
• Increasing expectations for organizations
• Complex challenges require communities to work together
• Desire for defined outcomes
• Competitive behaviour is not helping anyone
• Technology
• New resources
Why bother?
Revealing Possibilities
What are our goals?
What would success look
like?
Revealing Possibilities
What are our goals?
What would success look
like?
Who else cares about
this?
Impact (Abundance) based planning
Goals: Conditions
that support
success?
Activities?
Resources?
Who cares
about this?
Goal 1
Goal 2
Goal 3
*See the Project Based People Plan on the Vantage Point website.
Different approaches
Coordinating
Cooperating
Networking
Collaborating
From: Nonprofit Collaboration Toolkit
Laura Purdom, University of San Diego
• Networking
• Administrative coordination or collaboration
• External Service Provider
• Management Service Organization
• Project Partnerships
• Merger
Different approaches in practice
Board Fundamentals | Organization Name
Starts with People!
1. Environment
2. Membership Characteristics
3. Process and Structure
4. Communication
5. Purpose
6. Resources
Factors for Success
Moving forward together
Trust
Shared Vision/
Purpose
Infrastructure and Process
Goals and Conflict
Resolution
Evaluation
1. Your Collaboration Criteria
2. Membership Roster
3. Memorandum of Understanding (MOU)
4. Roles
5. Decision-Making
*Not exhaustive!
Tools to Build Collaboration
Collaboration Criteria - SAMPLE
Vantage Point Collaboration CriteriaAdopted by Employee Team October 2005
Last Updated February 2012
1. The collaboration is structured to increase capacity for all parties
to strengthen community organizations.
2. Vantage Point and the collaborating organization share a
common vision to achieve strength in community and expansive,
appropriate, strategic engagement of people. and timely
response from all parties.
3. The collaboration ensures all parties are fiscally sound.
4. The collaborating parties will all build on strengths and assets.
Membership Roster
Organization Initial Self-
Interests
Possible
Contributions
Representative’s name, phone number,
organization name and
address and type of
organization
Organizational and
Personal
Gains
Powers and
Commitments
1. Your Collaboration Criteria
2. Membership Roster
3. Memorandum of Understanding (MOU)
4. Roles
5. Decision-Making
*Not exhaustive!
Tools to Build Collaboration
Questions & Comments
Vantage Point Podcast Abundance in the Not-for-Profit
Sector: A Powerful Paradox
Hildy Gottlieb Creating the Future
www.creatingthefuture.org
Stanford Social Innovation ReviewHacking Nonprofit Collaboration(May 17, 2017)
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