Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants - June 25th Edition

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This week's Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants focuses on partnerships. We often see nonprofits partner with other nonprofits and also with for-profits. Check out these 6 blog postings on the topic, plus the bonus post by yours truly (Leila Johnson). Enjoy!

• At PhilanthroFlash, Laura Svienty discusses a partnership between Organic Bouquet and several charities.

• Ecopera weblog provides an explanation of a clean water program with UNICEF. It's unique because they are working with restaurants, but aren't asking them to donate any of their proceeds.

• The NAMI blog (National Alliance on Mental Illness) has a guest posting from Steve Case, cofounder of AOL. He chairs an organization called Revolution Health. They will be making a donation to the National Alliance on Mental Illness based on the number of visitors to their online health fair.

• Ken Goldstein of The Nonprofit Consultant Blog explains how partnerships with other nonprofits can become so chummy-chummy that they might as well merge into one organization.

• Mike Connery's blog on Future Majority explores Microsoft's new philanthropic venture called IM (Making a difference).

• Steve Cebalt at the Nonprofit PR Forum shows an example of a co-op marketing partnership between a university and an accounting firm.

And lastly, see my interesting take on partnerships involving money versus those involving time and expertise.