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5 Indirect Benefits of Collaboration
Wall Street is on fire. It’s 2008, and markets are melting. Banks are being bailed out by Uncle Sam as working people are losing their homes and going hungry. Enter Feeding America, an organization on the front line of food security and hunger relief. They saw a recession, growing need for food, and declining donations…
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The Mysterious Case of the Disappearing Foundation
Picture this: Freddy Mercury struts across the stage, belting out “Another One Bites the Dust.” The crowd goes wild, feeding off the electric energy of loss turned into defiance. That’s precisely the vibe the philanthropy world is experiencing as a growing number of foundations choose to close their doors and spend down their endowment funds.
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Ethical Partnerships – 5 Policies + 4 Practices
Haiti’s earthquake in 2010 struck the heart of its capital, Port-au-Prince. In the immediate aftermath, the American Red Cross raised nearly half a billion dollars from donors, with the ambitious goal of rebuilding the shattered country. Five years after the fundraising campaign, an investigation by ProPublica and NPR revealed that the organization had failed to…
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In Good Measure
In 1999, Houston had a problem: NASA’s $125M Mars Climate Orbiter was lost forever. One team of project engineers worked in metric, another team in imperial. The result? An expensive fireworks show for an audience of none. The best and brightest get it wrong sometimes. After the grief, NASA didn’t give up. Its teams learned,…
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Saying “No” Sucks
As humans, we have a natural aversion to rejection. Even the thought of delivering bad news to someone can trigger the same physical responses as if we were receiving it ourselves. That’s why ghosting – leaving someone hanging without an explanation – is commonplace personally and professionally. Even when delivered in a kind way, rejection…
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Making Your Case
Partnerships are formed because two (or more) organizations have faith that they will make 1 + 1 = 3. Without a strong relationship history, how can do you build the needed trust to initiate a partnership and have it thrive in the long run? There are two ways that organizations do this when starting a…
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Forming New Opportunities
Today there are essentially two ways that opportunities for new partnerships are formed: 1. relationship process, and 2. diligence process. A relationship process depends upon, you guessed it, the relationship that exists prior to an opportunity forming and uses trust as the motivating factor. A diligence process, depends upon a set of criteria that are…
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Community Investment Pays Off
Over the past decade, the number of Fortune 500 companies engaging in corporate social responsibility (CSR) has grown significantly, with more than 90% of these companies now participating in CSR initiatives. Corporate giving, a key aspect of CSR, has been a major contributor to the growth of philanthropic funding, with over $20 billion in corporate…
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2023
Dear Orgmatch community, 2022 was a challenging year for many of us with the continued presence of COVID-19 on top of a bad year for the flu, the ongoing War in Ukraine, the impact of inflation, refugee crises, and the global population surpassing 8 billion, highlighting the need for sustainable solutions as our dwindling resources…
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Before the Intro
Yesterday, we published “The Art of Discovery” as an introduction to the discovery process for funders and nonprofits. It includes some considerations, approaches, and questions that your organization might take to improve your odds of forming positive new partnerships. But how do you know when you’re ready for the discovery process? Partnership formation can be…
