The Daily Entrepreneur: Collaborate and Pay Better!

Published February 26, 2009 @ 05:13PM PT

What's the secret to your nonprofit work in a recession? Collaborate, demand better pay, and check out advice from great folks like Idealist:

Could Partnerships and Collaboration Save the Third Sector: The folks at the Urban Survival Project ponder whether the answer to recession-based funding shortages is better nonprofit collaboration. Its a good piece, but my guard is always up a little bit when the "C" word comes around. It gets thrown around all too often without a lot of thinking about why it matters, and I'm excited to see the USP folks explore it more deeply.

The Idealist.org Handbook to Building a Better World: Discovered via Idealist.org's Twitter account (@idealist), this looks like a great resource for would-be changemakers. As they say its "part career-guide, part activist's handbook."

Nonprofit Jobs Need Better Pay: Rick Cohen writes about a vital issue for the nonprofit sector - breaking out of the mindset that the social sector should require and demand immense financial sacrifice.

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Thanks for highlighting my post on collaboration and partnerships for the social sector. I've expanded the ideas a lot further in a new post exploring the 3 Types of Partnerships for the social sector @ http://urbansurvivalproject.blogspot.com/2009/02/3-types-of-partnership-for-social.html

Best Regards

Rizwan
http://www.urbansurvivalproject.org

Posted by Rizwan Tayabali on 04/11/2009 @ 07:26AM PT
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Nathaniel is the founding Director of the Center for Global Engagement at Northwestern University, which works annually with hundreds of students in dozens of countries around the world through curricular programs and student project incubation.