Partnerships
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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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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Unitus Reaches 1 Million of the World’s Working Poor
Unitus, December 6, 2006
Innovative approach brings life-changing loans and opportunity to 1 million micro-entrepreneurs.
Unitus, Inc., a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization dedicated to reducing global poverty by increasing access to microfinance, today announced that its worldwide portfolio of microfinance partners is now reaching more than 1 million small entrepreneurs with empowering loans. These loans of as little as $100 enable the working poor to start small businesses and lift themselves and their families out of poverty.
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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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Incubating entrepreneurs
By Nicole Keller, IDB America, May 2, 2006
In Chile, a novel training program pairs business-school students with low-income entrepreneurs in a mutually enriching partnership
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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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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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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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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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CARE and Corporate Alliances
CARE International, 2005
Provides a description of CARE, an international NGO, and its corporate alliances.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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ACCION PortaCredit Increasing MFI Efficiency with Technology
By Susana Barton & Carlos del Busto, ACCION. InSight, Number 9, May, 2004
Describes how the implementation of PortaCredit, an application that uses personal digital assistants, offers significant opportunities to microfinance institutions to improve efficiency.
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USAID, Visa International and FINCA International
VISA International, January 24, 2004
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USAID, FINCA International and Visa Announce Microfinance Partnership
Visa Media Center, January 24, 2004
The US Agency for International Development (USAID), FINCA International (Foundation for International Community Assistance) and Visa International today announced a major public-private partnership that aims to bring new efficiency and security to microfinance clients in the developing world utilizing electronic payment products. The initiative builds upon a two-year partnership between FINCA and Visa to improve the delivery of financial services to entrepreneurial women in developing countries
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Alexandria Small Business Association (ABA)
UNESCO, 2004
UNESCO, the Management of Social Transformation Program -MOST- Clearing House Best Practices.
This database documents the case of ABA, an NGO that provides lending to small and medium enterprises in Egypt, and the methods ABA used to cover its operation costs.
Additional information can be found at
The Microfinance Network.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Sustainable Expansion Strategies, Case Studies of 18 Regional Leaders in Microfinance
Microfinance Center for Central and Eastern Europe and the New Independent States, 2003
Central and Eastern Europe and the Newly Independent States (CEE & the NIS) are the newest frontier in microfinance. While a few microfinance institutions (MFIs) have existed for nearly ten years, the average MFI in the region is three years old. A key di
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CGAP IT Innovation Series
Consultative Group to Assist the Poor, 2003
A series of handouts explaining requirements, how it works, benefits, and lessons from previous implementation of technological innovations in the microfinance sector such as automated teller machines, interactive voice response technology, and personal digital assistants.
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What Works: PRODEM FFP’S Multilingual Smart ATMS for Microfinance. Innovative Solutions for Delivering Financial Services to rural Bolivia
By Roberto Hernandez & Yerina Mugica, Digital Dividend Business Case Study, 2003
This case study shows how the implementation of smart cards and digital fingerprint recognition technology has improved customer’s accessibility to PRODEM financial services. This technology was designed while prioritizing customer’s needs and achieving lower cost.
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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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Improving Microfinance Practice: “Best Practices” Followed by India’s Leading MFIs
Micro-credit Ratings International Limited – M-CRIL, 2002
Documents some of the innovations that nine of the leading microfinance institutions in India have adopted to successfully serve the poor, in terms of outreach and sustainability. Covers a broad type of innovations in product design and operating practices.
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Ensuring Impact: Reaching the Poorest While Building Financially Self-Sufficient Institutions, and Showing Improvement in the Lives of the Poorest Families
By Anton Simanowitz & Alice F. Walter. Chapter one, Pathways Out of Poverty. Innovations in Microfinance for the Poorest Families. Kummarian Press, 2002
Explores the trade-offs between reaching the poorest and achieving financial self-sufficiency, and how microfinance institutions can overcome them. Presents case studies of two nonprofit organizations, SHARE and CRECER.
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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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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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Innovations from the Field. A Daringly Brief Summary of a Huge Phenomenon
By John K. Hatch & Sara Levine, Pathways Out of Poverty. Innovations in Microfinance for the Poorest Families. Kummarian Press, 2002
Describes over four-dozen innovations of microlending organizations in areas such as client products and services, financing, administration and governance, program evaluation and response to emergencies.
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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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What Works: Tarahaat’s Portal for Rural India
By Caitlin Peterson & Vivek Sandell, A Digital Dividend Study for the World Resources Institute, July, 2001
TARAhaat is an Internet portal supporting a network of franchised village Internet centers in rural India. It delivers a wide range of social and economic information, as well as educational and other services, earning revenues through fee for service, membership fees, and commissions.
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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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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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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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The Microcredit Summit’s Challenge: Working Towards Institutional Financial Self-Sufficiency while Maintaining a Commitment to Serving the Poorest Families
By David S. Gibbons & Jennifer Meehan, June, 2000
Studies the cases of CARD, CRECER and FINCA Uganda, microfinance institutions that have reached institutional financial self-sufficiency and also serve large numbers of the poorest households. Identifies lessons in key areas that can be learned from these experiences.
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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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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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PRIDE/Finance Linking an African Microfinance Institution to a Formal US Banking Structure
USAID, News Stories. The Virtual library of Microcredit, 2000
Describes the efforts of USAID and the government of Guinea to help PRIDE/Finance to become financially self-sustainable, by implementing performance-based standards and linking the institution to a formal banking system.
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