June 27, 2002 | Read Time: 1 minute
What Works in Public/Private Partnering: Building Alliances for Youth Development, by William S. Reese, Cathryn L. Thorup, and Timothy K. Gerson, analyzes the experiences that the International Youth Foundation has had collaborating with a variety of partners, such as companies, nongovernmental organizations, and government agencies. The foundation supports programs that improve the conditions and prospects for young people worldwide. Rather than build programs from scratch, the foundation and its partners focus on established programs with strong track records, and try to help improve them. This publication analyzes the foundation’s partnerships with companies such as Cisco Systems, Gap Inc., Kellogg Company, Microsoft, and Nike; provides lessons learned for building successful partnerships among government, business, and nonprofit groups; and reports general findings. It concludes, for example, that corporations tend to join more readily with larger, more established nongovernmental organizations, which can hinder the development of NGO start-ups and limit the growth of existing small- to medium-sized NGOs.
Publisher: International Youth Foundation, 32 South Street, Suite 500, Baltimore, Md. 21202; (410) 347-1500; fax (410) 347-1188; youth@iyfnet.org; http://www.iyfnet.org; 62 pages; $12; free for download from the foundation’s Web site.
