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Doris Reeves-Lipscomb

Nonprofit-Corporate Partnerships: A New Framework | Stanford Social Innovation Review - 0 views

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shared by Doris Reeves-Lipscomb on 23 Oct 15 - No Cached
  • potential for quickly scaling solutions
  • four types of private-sector stakeholders who are involved in securing partnerships.
  • Each has access to different resources, and therefore a different role
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  • The economic buyer.
  • The user buyer.
  • The technical buyer.
  • The coach
  • The third challenge is how to speak to businesses so that they respond. Here are five principles for engaging businesses: Speak as partner, not supplicant. Offer legitimate solutions to tough business challenges such as value propositions. Focus on how you will address their needs first. Know their numbers. Know the industry, the business, and your own assets.
  • social sector groups speaking to businesses in terms of the nonprofits’ own missions was a major barrier.
  • we coached everyone to focus on addressing the needs of the businesses themselves and on framing the partnership as a value proposition.
  • Workforce development nonprofits can provide a talent pipeline of workers
  • This framing as a value-add partnership,
  • The Prepare Learning Circle, for example, is a group of five cradle-to-career collective impact partnerships that are explicitly focused on exploring what successful collaboration looks like in the context of workforce development and employment.
  • Doris Reeves-Lipscomb on 23 Oct 15
     
    Very good article by Tynesia Boyea-Robinson, on how nonprofits can best approach partnerships with forprofit corporations, October 16, 2015.  Ideas for internships, employment pipeline, etc. 
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