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Welcome to the York County Nonprofit Collaboration Project resource site. Here you will find announcements of upcoming collaboration learning opportunities, notes and resources from past gatherings and links to helpful information.
If you are looking for ways to reduce operational expenses without sacrificing services and to partner with other organizations for mutual benefit, read on! Join us in this effort to find new and creative ways to sustain and thrive in challenging times with a little help from other nonprofit friends and allies!
Invitation to Share Your Back Office and Bulk Purchasing Needs
We’re looking to help folks take the next, and really the most important step of this whole process, finding the right “dance partners” to collaborate with!
To assist organizations in taking this next step towards meaningful collaboration, we have put together two different surveys that you can access from this web site.
The first survey is a list of Administrative/Fund Raising/ Communication functions you might be interested in sharing. In our earlier discussions, we established that there are (1) some organizations that are interested in contributing to another organization to provide some of these services, (2) some organizations interested in providing some of these services, and (3) some organizations interested in “sharing” the expense of some of these services.
By filling out this survey, we can establish if any obvious partnerships out there just waiting to happen. Click here for the Shared Services Survey.
The second survey is for establishing what kinds of purchases you are making as a significant part of your operating budget. By filling out this survey, we can establish just where the greatest potential for bulk buying exists. Click here for the link to the Bulk Buying Survey.
Please consider taking just a few minutes to visit the website and fill out these surveys by 5:00 pm on Friday, October 14th. The work we’ve done to date has been valuable, but the real benefit is yet to come. The results of these surveys will be posted on the website, and additional meetings will be convened to move the process forward for those organizations that choose to participate.
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Follow up Surveys Now Ready!
Please complete and share your needs, your resources
to share and your interest!
Shared Services Survey Bulk Buying Survey
Background on the Project:
In 2010, representatives from several countywide organizations formed a planning group to discuss nonprofit collaboration opportunities in York County. Planners included Caring Unlimited, Inc., Child Care Services of York County, Southern Maine Agency on Aging, Southern Maine Regional Planning Commission, United Way of York County, York County Community Action and York County Shelter Programs, Inc.
Their efforts resulted in a Community Conversation held on November 5th where over 35 organizations discussed collaboration from many perspectives. Led by Jerome Weiner, consultant and past president of Partners for Community - a management services organization serving six non-profits, the group looked at various levels of collaboration and the stresses and benefits of partnering. Examples of various forms of collaboration were also presented by several York County nonprofits, including group purchasing to sharing of space, staff and programming to organizations looking to merge their common purposes.
In addition, organizations shared what each could use for assistance or offer as assistance to other nonprofits. Information from this half-day session has guided the development of learning opportunities that will continue through 2011.
(Pictured above: November 5, 2010 Community Conversation)
The Planning Group meets regularly and welcomes the participation of any interested nonprofit. See below for upcoming planning meetings and other events of interest! |
Letter to York County Nonprofits
September 2011
Resources from Past Events:
Marketing the Nonprofit/Communications
March 11, 2011
* Marketing Essentials for the Nonprofit
(PowerPoint presented by Mike Froning, Coordinator, Coastal Healthy Communities Coalition)
* Additional Resources
Fund Development Essentials
March 11, 2011
* Fund Development
(PowerPoint presented by Deb Nelson, Communications and Fund Developement Professional)
Shared Administration (Back Office) Services
February 11, 2011
Bulk or Group Buying
February 11, 2011
* Session Notes
* Share your supply needs
* List of items available for bulk purchase
* Interested in bulk buying opportunities with Southern Maine Regional Planning Commission? Send an e-mail!
Community Conversation on Nonprofit Collaboration
November 5, 2010
* Agenda
* Ranges of Strategic Partnering
* Feedback: What do need or have to share?
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