Giving Works - From Insight to Impact - Partnership Strategies

GivingWorks helps clients build and sustain high-impact partnerships that leverage each partner’s comparative advantage to advance a social goal.

Partnership Strategy

Most social problems are far too complex and multi-faceted for any one organization to solve alone. Collaborative solutions offer the potential for enhanced results through greater sustainability, cost efficiency, access to resources, innovation, strategic coherence and legitimacy. In reality, however, many relationships underperform due to insufficient clarity on the desired outcomes, models that fail to deliver compelling value to all parties, and a lack of active management. GivingWorks helps clients build and sustain high-impact partnerships that leverage each partner’s comparative advantage to advance a social goal.

Illustrative Experience:

Conducted a qualitative assessment of the World Bank’s engagement with foundations, with particular attention to each party’s perceptions, needs, and perspectives. Read More/Hide…

Assessing the World Bank’s Engagement with Foundations

Recognizing the strategic potential of emerging players in the philanthropic sector, GivingWorks was engaged by the Bank to undertake an independent qualitative assessment of the Bank’s engagement with foundations, with particular attention to perceptions, needs, and perspectives from both sides. Using extensive consultations with senior Bank staff and several influential foundations, GivingWorks laid out some of the key challenges and strategic opportunities vis-à-vis the foundation world and made concrete recommendations for cultivating these increasingly impactful relationships. This report included a frank assessment of the internal obstacles to effective Bank-foundation collaboration.

Sample Services

Mapping potential partner landscape
Selection criteria and performance metrics
Strategic frameworks and partnership models
Partnership evaluation