Collaboration and Partnership

Whether working in a funder collaborative or finding ways to better partner with the grantees you support, collaboration and partnership is often at the heart of effective and impactful family philanthropy. This Content Collection includes a variety of stories of funders engaged in successful collaborations, as well as tips and tools for how to make the most of your relationships with fellow funders and grantees.

Interested in learning more on this topic? Check out the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s Donor Collaboratives site and Resource Hub.

Collaboration with Other Funders: Tips and Stories

Donor Collaboratives: Maximizing Your Philanthropic Impact

Article

NCFP’s 2015 Trends in Family Philanthropy study found that more than 90 percent of respondents cited the “impact of their giving” as the top motivation for their participation in family philanthropy. This same study found that just 45 percent of family foundations participate in efforts with other funders. If grant…

The Story of How the Civil Marriage Collaborative Helped America Embrace Marriage Equality

Report

There were many forces at work in this historic change: tenacious leaders and litigators, coalitions of diverse lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) organizations, straight individual and organizational allies, elected officials, celebrities, and most important, hundreds of thousands of individuals, couples and families at the grassroots level.