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Sustained Collaboration Network Podcast
Are you a nonprofit or social impact leader curious about how to make your collaborations more effective? This podcast mini-series, created by the Sustained Collaboration Network and the Network for Nonprofit and Social Impact at Northwestern University, highlights the stories of funders and leaders with impactful integrated organizations (e.g., mergers, asset transfers), shared projects, shared service agreements, and alliances/networks. The podcast builds on two reports, available at sustainedcollab.org, with over 20 case studies highlighting practices that produced positive outcomes for collaborations.
Sustained Collaboration Network Podcast
How to build a shared service collaborative: Lessons from ECOST
In this episode, we are talking about shared service collaboratives. Shared service collaboratives occur when organizations coordinate activities to create more efficient or higher-quality operations. This episode features a conversation with Marjorie Murat, CEO of Dallas Afterschool, and Errika Flood-Moultrie, founder and CE0 of Connections Multiplied and Connections Multiplied, Too. They describe the Early Childhood and Out-of-School Time (ECOST) workforce development program, where early childhood, summer, and afterschool programs share a common staffing agency, payroll assistance, and healthcare coverage for staff. They describe how the program was created and how it evolved to meet the needs of participating organizations and staff needs.
To download your copy of the research mentioned in this episode, please visit: https://sustainedcollab.org/events-and-publications/