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Share Our Strength Signs Social Franchise Agreement With Winestyles 
Share our Strenght, March 9, 2007
Share Our Strength, one of the nation's leading organizations working to end childhood hunger in America, and WineStyles, the nation's largest wine store franchise, announced today that Share Our Strength will become a WineStyles franchisee, initially in Washington, D.C. The companies will also launch a national cause-marketing partnership, establishing Share Our Strength as the official national charity of WineStyles, to help Share Our Strength ensure the over 12 million American children facing hunger have the nutritious food they need to learn, grow and thrive.
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Philanthropy Google's Way: Not the Usual
By Katie Hafner, The New York Times, September 14, 2006
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 13 — The ambitious founders of Google, the popular search engine company, have set up a philanthropy, giving it seed money of about $1 billion and a mandate to tackle poverty, disease and global warming. But unlike most charities, this one will be for-profit, allowing it to fund start-up companies, form partnerships with venture capitalists and even lobby Congress. It will also pay taxes.
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How Business-NGO Partnerships Can Transform Markets
By Shilpa Shah, GreenBiz.com, July, 2006
A recent Ethical Corporation conference delved into the dynamics of partnerships between business and non-governmental organizations.
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eBay and Omidyar Network Founder Launches $100 Million Microfinance Fund in Partnership with Tufts University
Omidyar-Tufts Microfinance Fund , November 4, 2005
Announced on November 4, 2005, the partnership between Tufts University and eBay founder Pierre Omidyar is designed to generate income for Tufts through the administration of microcredit loans, help poor people in developing countries, and expand the development of microfinance.
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Landmark Global Collaborative $75 Million Fund for Micro-Entrepreneurs
Business Wire, November 3, 2005
A group of leading institutional investors and development agencies -- including Deutsche Bank, USAID, Hewlett Packard, the British Department for International Development and France's Agence Francaise de Developpement -- announced the creation of the Global Commercial Microfinance Consortium ("Consortium"), a ground-breaking $75 million multi-tiered commercial fund that will provide local currency financing for up to five years to Micro Finance Institutions (MFI) globally.
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Network of Lawyers Reforming NGO Laws
World Bank, 2005
A project of the World Bank, the European Union, and the Friedrich Naumann Foundation, this series of law workshops held in Jordan produced the Aman Declaration and the Arab Initiative for Freedom of Associations.
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Battling AIDS in India
By Joydeep Sengupta & Jayant Sinha, The McKinsey Quarterly, 2004
In India, 4.6 million people are HIV positive, and unless preventive measures are improved, the country's AIDS problem could become much worse. To slow the infection rate before it reaches the proportions seen in sub-Saharan Africa, the director of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation's Indian AIDS initiative has created a network of public-private partnerships. Ashok Alexander brings his experience as a McKinsey consultant to bear on this enormous problem, employing management tactics to implement prevention programs, build awareness, and tap the resources of India's powerful business community.
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USAID, Visa International and FINCA International
VISA International, January 24, 2004
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Public-private 'Partnerships' in Health - a Global Call for Action
By Sania Nishtar, Health Research Policy & Systems, 2004
Outlines key ethical and procedural issues inherent in different types of public-private arrangements and issues a Global Call to Action.
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East Africa Small Enterprise Fund
Shell Foundation, 2003
The $100 million fund is a newly-minted partnership of the Shell Foundation and the Africa-based GroFin Capital to address the lack of capital and business skills for small African businesses.
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Books
Social Partnering in Latin America. Lessons Drawn from Collaboration of Businesses and Civil Society Organizations
By James E. Austin et al & Ezequiel Reficco, The Rockefeller Center Studies on Latin American Studies, Harvard Univerisity, 2004
It is important to understand the motivating forces behind the decisions of businesses and Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) to enter collaborations, because they form the cornerstone upon which alliances are built. By motivations, we mean the conscious
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Forming Strategic Alliances
By Richard Steckel & Oster, Sharon M, Generating and Sustaining Nonprofit Earned Income: A Guide to Successful Enterprise Strategies. Jossey-Bass. Part II No.10., 2004
Identifies business and sociocultural trends that promote strategic alliances between corporations and nonprofit organizations in the United States. Gives practical advice about identifying potential corporate partners and how to approach them.
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Meeting the Collaboration Challenge: Developing Strategic Alliances between Nonprofit Organizations and Businesses
The Peter F. Drucker Foundation for Nonprofit Management, 2002
A workbook designed to complement Austin’s book The Collaboration Challenge. It includes several practical tools such as worksheets and process instructions about how to prepare, plan, develop, and renew strategic alliances with businesses
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Going Global Transforming Relief and Development NGOs
By Marc Lindenberg & Coralie Bryant, Kumarian Press Inc., 2001
Examines the way that globalization has impacted the work of international relief and development NGOs. Chapter 6, “The Promise of New Inter-Organizational and Inter-Sectoral Partnerships”, explores forms of collaboration emerging among relief and development nonprofits and private-sector organizations.
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The Collaboration Challenge. How Nonprofits and Business Succeed Through Strategic Alliances
By James E. Austin et al, Jossey-Bass Publishers, 2000
Analyses over fifteen strategic cross-sector collaborations between nonprofits and businesses. Studies how these alliances function in terms of partner’s needs and benefits, strategic fit, practical management issues, and general determinants of their effectiveness. From this study he presents an analytical framework to understand the nature and evolution of these cross-sector collaborations and how to create, build and manage successful partnerships.
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Making Money while Making a Difference: How to profit with a nonprofit partner
By Richard Steckel et al., High Tide Press, 1999
A guide for corporations who want to pursue successful strategic alliances with nonprofits includes types of alliances and strategies for their implementation.
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Cases & Educational Materials
Quick Look at Datamation’s Train-and-Hire Program
By World Resources Institute Digital Dividend, World Resources Institute, 2005
Explains how Datamation successfully uses public and private partnerships to create a train-and-hire program. The document describes how partner NGOs provide IT training to marginalized women as a means to qualify these women for jobs in Datamation.
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CARE and Corporate Alliances
CARE International, 2005
Provides a description of CARE, an international NGO, and its corporate alliances.
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Case Study Series – ICICI Bank
By Todd J. Markson & Michael Hokenson, Michigan Ross School of Business, 2003
The number of people living on less than $1 per day in India is significantly greater than the entire population of the United States. From a social perspective, this is a humanitarian pandemic. From an economic perspective, these people represent the B
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Skills and Literacy Training for Better Livelihoods: A Review of Approaches and Experiences
By John Oxenham et al., World Bank: Africa Region Human Development Working Paper Series, 2002
Describes how the Kenyan Government and NGOs such as PLAN International collaborate to improve education.
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A Point of Light in Mumbai
By Rukmini Banjeri et al., The McKinsey Quarterly, 2001 (Provides free access to some articles, but previous registration is required.)
This article discusses the work done by Pratham, an education NGO based in Mumbai, India that has effectively partnered with the government and corporations including ICICI Bank and Hindustan Petroleum to improve education standards in Mumbai. The article highlights strategies used by Pratham to make themselves a cost-effective NGO reaching its goals. Visit www.pratham.org for more information about the organization.
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Primary Education for All in the City of Mumbai, India: Challenges set by local actors
By Nalini Juneja, UNESCO: International Institute for Education Planning, 2001
This document provides information on the role of various actors in primary education in Mumbai. It also shows how local NGOs working with each other and the government form partnerships and networks to improve education.
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Cross-sector Collaboration: Lessons from the International Trachoma Initiative
By Diana Barrett et al., Paper presented at the Workshop on Public-Private Partnerships in Public Health, April 7, 2000
Discusses the partnership between the Edna McConnell Clark Foundation and Pfizer, Inc. to form the International Trachoma Initiative (ITI), a non-profit organization dedicated to implementing a multi-faceted strategy to combat trachoma.
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Academic Research
Global health: making partnerships work - seven recommendations for building effective global public-private health partnerships
By Kent Buse, Overseas Development Institute (ODI), January, 2007
This paper explores the effectiveness of global public-private health partnerships (GHPs). The paper argues that global public-private health partnerships add significant value in tackling diseases of poverty but that the value of these partnerships is compromised by a number of common problems.
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Grameen Capital India Pvt Ltd
Grameen Capital India Pvt Ltd, 2006
A finance company created through a partnership by Citigroup, ICICI Bank, and Grameen Foundation USA that seeks to integrate microfinance institutions in India with the formal financial market.
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Stop TB Partnership
Stop TB Partnership, 2005
A partnership of 315 non-profit organizations and corporations, sponsored by the World Health Organization, dedicated to combating Tuberculosis.
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Global Alliance to Eliminate Lymphatic Filariasis
Global Alliance to Eliminate Lymphatic Filariasis, 2005
According to the their website, “The Global Alliance to Eliminate Lymphatic Filariasis is a free, non-restrictive partnership forum for the exchange of ideas and coordination of activities, with membership open to all interested parties. Its functions include: sharing of information on progress and challenges, coordination of activities (such as fund-raising) and advocacy. To date the Global Alliance to Eliminate Lymphatic Filariasis includes non-governmental organizations, private corporations, and governments."
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International Federation of Anti-Leprosy Associations
ILEP, 2005
The ILEP, in partnership with World Health Organization, the Nippon Foundation, and the Swiss pharmaceutical group Novartis AG, are actively working to end leprosy.
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The Jossey Boss nonprofit Management Series
Jossey-Bass, 2005
Publishes a variety of books about nonprofit organizations on issues such as board development, finance, fundraising, management, and leadership
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Nonprofit Sector Research Fund
2005
Produces a variety of publications including Working Papers and Books based on research supported by the Fund.
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Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly.
Sage Publications Inc, 2005
Disseminates research on voluntarism, citizen participation, philanthropy, civil society, and nonprofit organizations. Sponsored by the Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action (ARNOVA). Volumes of interest: Vol 29 No 1 and Vol 33 No 3.
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Stanford Social Innovation Review
2005 (subscription required)
Presents articles on nonprofit management, philanthropy, and corporate citizenship. Volumes of interest: Summer and Winter 2003, Summer 2004.
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Partnership on Nonprofit Ventures - Yale School of Management
The Goldman Sachs Foundation, 2005
Provides an interesting bibliography under Resource Center – Public/Private Partnerships.
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Scalling the Walls
By Sejal Shah, Stanford Social Innovation Review, June, 2004 (Vol 2, Iss 1)
Describes how an indian NGO has partnered with the government to provide services to senior citizens.
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Scaling the Walls
By Sejal Shah, Stanford Social Innovation Review, June, 2004 (Vol 2, Iss 1)
Describes how an indian NGO has partnered with the government to provide services to senior citizens.
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Bank of Baroda and SEWA Partnership, for reaching the Women Micro-Entrepreneurs
By T.S Raji Gain et Al., Alternative Finance, 2004
Highlights the collaboration between the Self Employed Women’s Association (SEWA, Lucknow, India) and a local branch of Bank of Baroda, a large public sector commercial bank in India.
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Managing the Collaboration Portfolio, Strategic Alliances
By James E. Austin et al, Stanford Social Innovation Review, June, 2003
Defines a framework to characterize the nature and evolution of alliances between nonprofits and corporations and proposes a strategic management of these cross-sector collaborations.
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Mainstreaming Microfinance: Bridging the NGO-Banker Divide
By Bibhudutt Padhi, The Virtual Library of Microcredit, 2003
While NGOs as microfinance institutions have had some success in facilitation and social intermediation, there is little evidence of the fact that they have had much success in poverty reduction. In this article, the author recommends the development of a
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Public-Private Partnerships in Action
Monday Developments,, November, 2001 (Vol 19, No 20)
From the Independent Sector website "Pact and Microsoft Indonesia team up to increase technology skills in Indonesia."
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The Ethics of Public-Private Partnerships
By Marc J. Roberts et al., Workshop on Public-Private Partnerships in Public Health, April 7, 2000
Partnerships in Public Health, April 7-8th, 2000. Addresses important questions and counter arguments regarding what makes partnerships ethical, the rights and responsibilities that corporations face in a partnership, and the role that profits play in obtaining “social good”.
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Emerging NGO-Business Relations in Central Asia
By Simon Heap et al, Occasional Paper Series Number 33. International NGO Training and Research Centre (INTRAC), 2000
This paper presents the findings from the Central Asian republics of Kazakstan, Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan as part of INTRAC's global inquiry in to the evolving nature of relationships between NGOs & the Private Sector. These three national reviews examin
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Promoting Public-Private Partnership in Health and Education: The Case of Bangladesh
By Wang, Yidan & Manzoor Ahmed, “Public Private Partnerships in the Social Sector: Issues and Country Experiences in Asia and the Pacific.” Asian Development Bank Institute Policy Series No. 1, 2000
Health and education are two fundamental sectors that every country needs to develop. But governments in developing countries have limited resources for them. They face difficulties in providing quality health and education services that take into account
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Reason for Hope: The Support of NGOs in Education for All
By UNESCO, UNESCO: World Education Forum, 2000
This document is part of the Education for All 2000 Assessment and discusses the role of NGOs in the Education for All campaign. The paper provides an overview and examples of NGOs working in the field of education. This section provides information on what partnerships are and what makes them successful as well as lessons learned from partnerships and examples of education partnerships.
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Public Private Partnerships in the Social Sector: Issues and Country Experiences in Asia and the Pacific.
By Wang, Yidan & Manzoor Ahmed, Asian Development Bank Institute Policy Series No. 1, 2000
Discusses BRAC, Grameen Bank, and other health care NGOs engaged in partnership with corporations.
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Government –Nonprofit Relations in International Perspective
By Lester M. Salomon. Chpt 10. & Boris, Elizabeth T, and Steuerle, Eugene (eds)., Nonprofits and Government: Collaboration and Conflict. The Urban Institute Press, 1999
Analyzes paradigms and actual realities of the nonprofit sectors in several countries. It focuses on the relationships between nonprofits and governments, and their potential advantages and risks.
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Profits for Nonprofits: find a Corporate partner
By Alan R. Andreasen, Harvard Business School, 1999
Identifies challenges of cause-related marketing partnerships and strategies for making them successful.
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Profits for Nonprofits: find a Corporate partner
By Alan R. Andreasen, Harvard Business School, 1999
Identifies challenges of cause-related marketing partnerships and strategies for making them successful.
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NGOs and the Private Sector: Potential for Partnerships?
By Simon Heap, Occasional Paper Series Number 27. International NGO Training and Research Centre (INTRAC), 1998
Analyzes the relations between NGOs and business, in particular larger companies, and their efficiency in promoting sustainable development. Identifies general guidelines about types of collaborations, what NGOs and corporations expect to get from partner
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