TNB Roundtable: Collaboration- What’s In It For Your Nonprofit?

The Boston Foundation has generously offered the use of a meeting room, and Tom McLaughlin has just as generously stepped up to lead us in a morning of discussion and peer learning about nonprofit collaboration.

Here’s what Tom says about this Roundtable session:

There is growing talk about collaboration in the nonprofit sector, but  toward what end?  What does it mean to collaborate?  Is collaboration just the latest buzzword or can it be meaningful to your organization?

We designed this session in order to facilitate answers to these questions for all participants.  This will be a hands-on workshop in which participants can examine a possible non-merger collaboration with a group of colleagues.  Using simple data about a large group of nonprofits that we will supply, each group will attempt to identify potential savings, then brainstorm collaborative approaches to achieving these savings.

Using the results of all the groups, we will facilitate a discussion about best collaboration practices that could lead to savings.  It is possible that one or more actual collaborations could emerge from this session.