{"id":1505,"date":"2011-08-15T09:36:07","date_gmt":"2011-08-15T16:36:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp\/2011\/08\/collaboration_fact_v_theory\/"},"modified":"2011-08-15T09:36:07","modified_gmt":"2011-08-15T16:36:07","slug":"collaboration_fact_v_theory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/main\/collaboration_fact_v_theory.php","title":{"rendered":"Collaboration: Fact v. Theory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For those looking for ACTUAL examples of nonprofit collaboration, rather than treatises or foundation edicts on how they should work, the Foundation Center now offers <a href=\"http:\/\/collaboration.foundationcenter.org\/search\/searchGenerator.php\">a helpful database of nonprofit collaboration projects<\/a>, drawn from the applicants to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thecollaborationprize.org\/\">the Collaboration Prize<\/a>&nbsp;(data drawn from The Lodestar Foundation).<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The database isn&#8217;t exclusive to arts and culture, although there are many arts organizations in the mix (just search for &#8220;arts&#8221; to find them). But there&#8217;s plenty to be learned regardless of the industry represented in the specific initiative.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Collaborations are categorized in lots of useful ways &#8212; from shared purchasing to shared staff training to full-on mergers &#8212; and each record includes a range of details about geography, organizations involved, challenges, and outcomes.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Actual insights from actual collaborations, organized in a searchable way. Pretty cool.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For those looking for ACTUAL examples of nonprofit collaboration, rather than treatises or foundation edicts on how they should work, the Foundation Center now offers a helpful database of nonprofit collaboration projects, drawn from the applicants to the Collaboration Prize&nbsp;(data drawn from The Lodestar Foundation). The database isn&#8217;t exclusive to arts and culture, although there [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1505","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1505"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1505\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}