Powerful Nonprofit Partnerships

About This Course

Partnership is all about an organization’s ability to build strong, effective collaborations that amplify impact and make the most of available resources. It’s about finding like-minded allies, sharing strengths, and working together to achieve common goals that might be out of reach alone. Through these meaningful partnerships, organizations can extend their reach, enhance their services, and create lasting change in the communities they serve.

What You Will Learn

The unique aspects of nonprofit partnership and the resources we seek to maximize.

Two kinds of motives at play in every nonprofit partnership: instrumental and moral.

Four approaches to effective nonprofit partnerships, and the importance of actively managing these relationships.

Types of partnerships, including cause marketing, in-kind, workplace giving, and corporate volunteerism.

The importance of tapping into innovation management and understanding others as we contemplate partnerships.

A three-part model for building partnerships that include the five elements of a strong partnership.

How to craft triple-bottom-line oriented goals for your nonprofit that amplify partnerships.

Using Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs to better understand what drives you--and your partners.

Who is this course for?

Nonprofit partnership is all about maximizing resources, which includes human resources (just like you). If you're interested in learning how corporate partnerships work to both parties' best interests, in what the triple bottom line is, and in how basic human needs play into this type of relationship management, this course is for you!

This course explores the following Korn Ferry competencies:

Business Insight

Financial Acumen

Resourcefulness

Balancing Stakeholders

Builds Networks