Powerful Nonprofit Partnerships

Welcome to our introductory lessons on the concept of nonprofit partnership. While partnership as a concept can encompass a lot of different types of interactions and relationships, we’re going to focus on the nonprofit sense: for our purposes, “partnership” is an organization's ability to establish effective collaborations with others to maximize the use of resources.

We’ll take a look at partnership through three primary lenses:

• What is partnership and why does it matter to our nonprofits?

• What skills are needed to build up our capacity to form meaningful partnerships?

What does an effective partnership look like?

Let’s turn our attention to our first lesson on the topic: What is partnership?

*Note that a transcript of all audio is available for download on the lessons to come, as well as an audio-only version of the lessons. You can always turn on closed-captions on the video player settings above.

In this lesson, we'll jump in on an overview of what partnership is.

Be sure to download the transcript to begin building your reference library, and also feel free to use the audio-only download below for on-the-go learning.

Now that you have some basics about partnership, let's take a look at why it matters.

Remember, you can download the transcript for this video below, and can also turn closed captions on and off for your convenience.

In this lesson, we'll look at the key skills related to nonprofit partnership. Remember: skills can be learned, practiced, and developed over time, so if you feel that you have a little (or a lot of!) room for improvement, know that you're on the right track!

Be sure to download the transcript to not only review your learning but also to see the research references used in this lesson.

In this lesson, we'll bring together our learning on what effective partnership programs look like, and how can we measure them.

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We’re going to consider two means of measuring partnership. First, we’ll look at a very literal means of measurement, and then we’ll look at how we can measure our abilities around partnership.

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Welcome to our silver badge lessons on nonprofit partnership! As you work toward your silver badge, you’ll go deeper into the “how” of partnerships: how we can activate partnerships in our organization, how to lead partnership efforts, and setting goals that look to build up your capacity and that of your organization in partnership efforts.

Within these lessons, we’ll explore concepts like partnership motives, the triple bottom line, and best practices for launching or evaluating a partnership. You’ll take away several new tools for supporting partnerships in your work!

Let’s jump in on our next lesson on activating our partnership efforts in our nonprofits!

*Remember that a transcript of all audio is available for download below on the lessons below, and you can always turn on closed-captions on the video settings above.

Let’s start with how to activate your personal partnership abilities and go beyond the focused skill-building we talked about in our bronze lessons. We’ll look at more deeply exploring your motives for improvement, managing innovation, and understanding others.

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Now that we have a little bit of foundation in your partnership efforts, let's think about how we can apply this to your organization.

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In this lesson, we'll look at how to put partnership strategies into practice with a look at how to build and enhance it in your nonprofit.

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In our consideration of how to build up your own capacity in developing and supporting effective partnerships at your nonprofit, we’re going to consider the principles behind goal-setting.

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Setting goals to improve your nonprofit’s overall partnership capacity looks and feels different than setting goals as an individual.

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Welcome to your final series of courses on nonprofit partnership! We’ve covered a lot of ground on what partnership is and isn’t, how you can put it into practice, and what it looks like when it’s done well. In our gold-level lessons, we’ll bring this learning together to explore how we can get and stay motivated to build up our own partnership abilities. We’ll also look at some ways to understand our fellow partners’ motivation or resistance.

These lessons also include a review of all we have covered in our work on partnership, and you’ll have the opportunity to complete a personal learning plan to conclude your learning.

Let's jump in!

*Note that a transcript of all audio is available for download on the lessons to come, as well as an audio-only version of the lessons. You can always turn on closed-captions on the video player settings above.

In this lesson, we'll look at how motivation can be supported in building partnership efforts in your organization.

Be sure to download the transcript to not only review your learning but also to see the research references used in this lesson.

In this lesson, we're going to discuss how we can inspire others to get personally motivated about nonprofit partnership efforts, especially those who may be resistant.

Remember, you can download the transcript for this video below, and can also turn closed captions on and off for your convenience.

In this final teaching lesson on partnerships, we're bringing together all our learning into a capstone video on how we can grow from everything we've covered thus far!

Be sure to download the transcript to not only review your learning but also to see the research references used in this lesson.