The Impact Collaborative (SSIR)

The Impact Collaborative

A new nonprofit alliance model shows how previously siloed organizations can collaborate to scale services while retaining autonomy.

Nonprofits face growing pressure to do more with less: rising demand, shrinking funding, and increasingly complex social issues often exceed the capacity—and mission—of any single organization.

Effectively addressing hunger, homelessness, education, or health equity requires a level of strategic coordination that few organizations can achieve on their own.

These structural incentives often reinforce competition over collaboration.

Most nonprofits operate in isolation from each other.

Author summary: Nonprofits collaborate to scale services.

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Stanford Social Innovation Review Stanford Social Innovation Review — 2025-11-05

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