GEOList Summary: Funder Role in Engineering Collaboration

We’d like to hear from you: is it appropriate for funders to take a more aggressive role in promoting collaboration or mergers among nonprofits, and can funders really be effective in that role? And what does “a more aggressive role” look like? Does it include being a strong convener or facilitator, guiding the design of a new partnership? Does it mean bringing partners together in an arranged marriage? Or does it include making collaboration or merger a requirement for funding? Please tell us what you have done to successfully engineer a collaboration or ramp up the likelihood of its success. If you have observed tactics that may have contributed to the failure of an arranged partnership, we’d like to know. Any examples, reports, or policies that illustrate your point of view are welcome.