Stuart C. Mendel is the first Fellow appointed by the Nonprofit Academic Centers Council, Co-editor of the Journal of Ideology and Associate Editor for Acquisitions for the Journal of Nonprofit Education and Leadership. He served for twenty years as Assistant Dean and Director of the Center for Nonprofit Policy and Practice at Cleveland State University. He is author of Mediating Organizations, Private Government, and Civil Society: Disinvestment Through the Preservation of Wealth in Cleveland, Ohio (1950-1990) and The Essential Fundraising Guide for Deans and Directors in Higher Education.Jeffery L. Brudney is the Betty and Dan Cameron Family Distinguished Professor of Innovation in the Nonprofit Sector at the University of North Carolina Wilmington. His publications include Fostering Volunteer Programs in the Public Sector: Planning, Initiating, and Managing Voluntary Activities. He directed the film, Building a Better Wilmington: Giving and Volunteering in the Port City, which was screened at the Cucalorus Film Festival.

"Collaboration is the life blood of the nonprofit sector. Yet the literature is strangely neglectful of nonprofits' critical roles and perspectives in all kinds of cross-sector partnerships involving business, government and nonprofit organizations. No longer. This richly empirical study by Stuart Mendel and Jeff Brudney shines a bright and broad light on the factors that allow nonprofits and their partners to succeed in their collaborative endeavors."—Dennis Young

• AcknowledgementsA Note on Quoted MaterialIntroduction: Why This Book? 1. Summing Up, Summing Down: A Review of the Literature on Partnership2. Nonprofit Partnerships: The Gold Standard3. The Point of Partnering4. Good to Great: Recognizing the Signs of High Quality Partnerships5. Nonprofit Partnerships by Sub-Sector6. Grant Makers Partnership Practices7. Toward Nonprofit Theory: Collaboration as a Way of (Work) LifeAppendixIndex