Collaborations, Partnerships & Mergers

What is the 3C Model of collaboration?

• Cooperation, Coordination, and Collaboration

• Calming, Campaigning, and Calculating

• Calculating, Coordinating, and Capable

• Collaboration, Coordination, and Consolidation

What are some obstacles to collaboration and merger?

• Loss of autonomy, Loss of identity, and Power struggles

• Implementation of collective impact

• Successful program evaluation

• Lack of tax exempt status from the IRS

What are the key factors for successful collaboration?

• Mission-driven, Top leadership commitment, Trust, and Relatedness

• Financial stability, Marketing strategies, Innovation, and Efficiency

• Public-private partnerships, Cross-sector collaborations, Collective impact, and Networks

• Competition, Cooperation, Communication, and Consolidation

What are the components of Collective Impact?

• Common Agenda, Shared Measurement, Mutually Reinforcing Activities, Continuous Communication, and Backbone Support

• Collaboration, Coordination, Consolidation, Communication, and Contracting

• Cooperation, Competition, Consolidation, Communication, and Coordination

• Cross-sector collaborations, Public-private partnerships, Networks, and Independent public-service providers

How to build successful coalition?

• Goals are similar and compatible.

• Communicate positions on difficult, controversial issues.

• Maintain the coalition's forward momentum, even after setback.

• All of the above

A power-sharing collaboration is referred to as a ______ relationship.

• agent to agent

• principal to board

• principal to staff

• principal to principal

Organizations that cooperate to share suppliers are applying _______________ theory.

• hierarchy of needs

• closed systems

• diffusion of innovation

• resource dependence

Yankey & Willen, as cited by Worth, describe decreased government funding as an ___________ driver of collaboration.

• external

• internal

• outsourced

• intermingled

National nonprofits with local chapters follow one of two principal organization forms - a single corporation or a _____________.

• federation

• joint venture

• strategic alliance

• franchise

According to Carson, as cited in the Worth text, the hardest thing for a nonprofit to say to others in collaboration is _____________.

• no

• maybe

• yes

• maybe