Forging Nonprofit Alliances
In 1998, Jane Arsenault wrote Forging Nonprofit Alliances: A Comprehensive Guide to Enhancing Your Mission Through Joint Ventures & Partnerships, Management Service Organizations, Parent Corporations, and Mergers.
This insightful guide shows how, by joining forces, nonprofits can use consolidation as a strategic tool to enhance, rather than undermine, mission. As nonprofits find ways to increase effectiveness in services and fundraising and face the growing competition for limited resources, they can focus on their real goal – serving their constituents.
The book explores the various options for consolidation. It also details the negotiation process and demonstrates how to design and frame the consolidation process in a positive and constructive way for staff, donors, and constituents. Written for nonprofit managers and boards, Forging Nonprofit Alliances determines which options are right for an organization and clearly defines the roles and responsibilities of all members of nonprofit board and staff in planning and implementing an alliance.
Jane is available for speaking engagements related to the book. If you would like more information, please email info@fiopartners.com.
Praise for Forging Nonprofit Alliances:
“Forging Nonprofit Alliances is a book that has only become more important since its publication in 1998. The author takes a close look at four models of alliances – joint ventures, MSOs, parent organizations, and mergers – and offers a framework for exploring and pursuing such alliances that respects the realities of the nonprofit world. Her ideas on cultural integration are particularly valuable, as is her step by step guide to negotiation and new governance.”
- Michael Gilbert
Nonprofit Online News, November 18, 2005
“At a time when nonprofits are developing strategic alliances at a record pace, Jane Arsenault provides a clear, straightforward road map for pursuing a variety of such alliances. Her sensitivity to the importance of corporate culture and the presentation of numerous structural options contributes to a better understanding of this important subject. Arsenault work is instructive to both nonprofit leaders pursuing such alliances and academicians who study their development.”
- John A. Yankey,
Leonard W. Mayo Professor,
Mandel Center for Nonprofit Organizations,
Case Western Reserve University
“This book is a must read for any nonprofit CEO or board member today and beyond. In an easy-to-read, well-organized format, it takes the reader step by step through the intricate process of forming alliances in the nonprofit sector. It explores how to best harness the power of corporate structure in keeping with the values and missions of the nonprofit. I have been wishing for such a book for years, and here it is!”
- David S. Lauterbach,
president and chief executive officer,
Kent County Mental Health Center)
“Forging Nonprofit Alliances gives me exactly the kind of help I seek: engaging, real-life examples; clear, illustrative graphs and charts; comprehensive bibliography; and practical suggestions.”
- Analee Wulfkuhle,
Chief Executive Officer/President,
Health, Home & Hospice Care of Rhode Island
