Nonprofit and Business Partnerships Background Information

• Snapshots: Research from the Nonprofit Sector Research Fund (PDF Format)
  December 2001 Issue on Partnerships Across Sectorsnbsp; 
  Risks, Opportunities, and Guidelines: An environmental watchdog joins forces with a fast-food giant to reduce waste; a conservation group aligns itself with a chain of coffee shops to encourage environmentally sound coffee farming practices. Impossible? Actually, these alliances are part of a growing trend that finds nonprofits and corporations forging surprising alliances designed to serve the social good as well as the fiscal bottom line.

• National Health Council -- Guiding Principles for Voluntary Health Agencies in Corporate Relationships
  This page answers the questions: why are relationships between Voluntary Health Agencies and corporations appropriate, why should VHA industry guiding principles be developed for corporate relationships, what is a corporate relationship and what should be the guiding principles for corporate relationships?

• The Nonprofit Sector and Business: New Visions, New Opportunities, New Challenges (PDF Format)
  This pamphlet provides an introduction to the work of the Nonprofit Sector Strategy Group, followed by the group's statement, "The Nonprofit Sector and Business: New Visions, New Opportunities, New Challenges."