Forging Nonprofit Alliances: A Comprehensive Guide to Enhancing Your Mission Through Joint Ventures & Partnerships, Management Service Organization

This insightful guide shows how by joining forces, nonprofits canuse consolidation as a strategic tool to enhance, rather thanundermine mission. As nonprofits find ways to increaseeffectiveness in services and fundraising and face the growingcompetition for limited resources, they can focus on their realgoal-serving their constituents.

Arsenault explores the various options for consolidation-includingjoint ventures and partnerships, management service organizations, parent corporations, and mergers. She also details the negotiationprocess and demonstrates how to design and frame the consolidationprocess in a positive and constructive way for staff, donors, andconstituents. Written for nonprofit managers and boards, ForgingNonprofit Alliances determines which options are right for anorganization and clearly defines the roles and responsibilities ofall members of nonprofit board and staff in planning andimplementing an alliance.