{"product_id":"meeting-the-collaboration-challenge-workbook-isbn-9780787962319","title":"Meeting the Collaboration Challenge Workbook","description":"In his award-winning book The Collaboration Challenge, James E. Austin demonstrated how nonprofits and businesses can succeed through strategic alliances. Now, in Meeting the Collaboration Challenge, the Drucker Foundation provides specific guidance to help nonprofits of every size put collaboration into practice. This workbook, its companion videotape, and The Collaboration Challenge help your nonprofit organization further its mission through strategic alliances with businesses.  Introduction: Leading Beyond the Walls (James E. Austin and Frances Hesselbein).\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Using This Workbook and Related Resources.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Relationships Between Nonprofit Organizations and Businesses.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Process Options for Building Understanding.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e PHASE 1: Prepare Your Nonprofit Organization to Meet the Collaboration Challenge.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Process Options for Preparing Your Organization.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e WORKSHEET 1: Identify Assets and Capabilities Your Nonprofit Might Provide in Alliances.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e WORKSHEET 2: Determine Benefits Your Nonprofit Might Seek in Alliances.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e WORKSHEET 3: Review Your Nonprofit's Strategic Goals and Readiness for Developing Alliances.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e WORKSHEET 4: Delegate Responsibilities for Guiding Alliance Development.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e WORKSHEET 5: List Your Nonprofit's Current Relationships with Businesses.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e PHASE 2: Plan Your Nonprofit Organization's Strategic Alliances with Businesses.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Process Options for Planning Alliances.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e WORKSHEET 6: Map Your Nonprofit's Business Relationships on the Collaboration Continuum.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e WORKSHEET 7: Research Each Potential Alliance to Assess Strategic Fit and Opportunities.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e WORKSHEET 8: Identify Other Businesses with Which Your Nonprofit Might Create Alliances.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e WORKSHEET 9: Design a Marketing Approach for Each Potential Alliance.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e PHASE 3: Develop Strategic Alliances with Businesses.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Process Options for Developing Alliances.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e WORKSHEET 10: Develop the Purpose and Fit Statement for Each Alliance.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e WORKSHEET 11: Develop the Management Plan for Each Alliance.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e PHASE 4: Renew Your Nonprofit Organization's Strategic Alliances with Businesses.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Process Options for Alliance Appraisal and Renewal.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e WORKSHEET 12: Prepare for Alliance Appraisal.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e WORKSHEET 13: Update Your Nonprofit's Operating Plan.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e WORKSHEET 14: Review Your Nonprofit's Portfolio of Alliances.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Afterword.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Appendix A: Definition of Terms.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Appendix B: The Seven C's: Questions for Partners.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Appendix C: Factors Influencing the Success of Collaboration.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Appendix D: Nonprofit Policies for Alliances with Businesses.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Appendix E: Alliance Examples in Meeting the Collaboration Challenge Video.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Appendix F: Additional Resources.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e About the Drucker Foundation.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Customer Feedback Form. \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Peter F. Drucker Foundation for Nonprofit Management,\u003c\/b\u003e founded in 1990, takes its name and inspiration from the acknowledged father of modern management. By providing educational opportunities and resources, the foundation furthers its mission \"to lead social sector organizations toward excellence in performance.\" To realize its vision for the next ten years, the Drucker Foundation will bring together the best leadership and management voices from across the world with a focus on providing social sector organizations with the ideas and tools that enable them to better serve their customers and communities.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn his award-winning book \u003ci\u003eThe Collaboration Challenge\u003c\/i\u003e, James E. Austin demonstrated how nonprofits and businesses can succeed through strategic alliances. Now, in \u003ci\u003eMeeting the Collaboration Challenge\u003c\/i\u003e, the Drucker Foundation provides specific guidance to help nonprofits of every size put collaboration into practice. This workbook, its companion videotape, and \u003ci\u003eThe Collaboration Challenge\u003c\/i\u003e help your nonprofit organization further its mission through strategic alliances with businesses.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eMeeting the Collaboration Challenge\u003c\/i\u003e emphasizes the assets and capabilities that nonprofit organizations bring to alliances with business. It presents a four-phase process of preparing your organization for alliances, planning alliances, developing alliances, and renewing alliances. Each phase is intended to encourage participation in successful nonprofit-business alliances and to organize information and guide discussions about them. Its practical resources help to:\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eIdentify assets and capabilities a nonprofit might provide and benefits it might seek in alliances\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eReview strategic goals and readiness for developing alliances\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eResearch each potential alliance to assess strategic fit and opportunities\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eDiscover additional businesses with which a nonprofit might create alliances\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eDesign a marketing approach for each alliance\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eDevelop the management plan for each alliance\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eAppraise each alliance and its potential\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cp\u003eThrough this systematic process for developing your nonprofit's alliances with businesses, you can build collaboration that benefits both partners and the customers and communities they serve.\u003c\/p\u003e  \"The workbook is a valuable read for any budding social entrepreneur and it is a wonderful companion to the book.\" \u003cbr\u003e  --Richard Steckel, AddVenture Network, Inc.  \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePraise for The Collaboration Challenge\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Austin has performed a valuable service for nonprofit organizations and their corporate partners by illuminating the dynamics of successful relationships. His useful book deserves to be widely read by leaders in both sectors concerned about increasing the effectiveness of their social action agenda.\"\u003cbr\u003e  --Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Harvard Business School, author of \u003ci\u003eWorld Class\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eRosabeth Moss Kanter on the Frontiers of Management\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"The entire nonprofit sector has been searching for the expertise and tools this book provides. Nothing else like it exists.\"\u003cbr\u003e  --Bill Shore, executive director of Share-Our-Strength and author of \u003ci\u003eThe Cathedral Within\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eRevolution of the Heart\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Jossey-Bass","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47989605040357,"sku":"NP9780787962319","price":24.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780787962319.jpg?v=1761784779","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/meeting-the-collaboration-challenge-workbook-isbn-9780787962319","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}