Transcendent Partnership: Aligning Agendas for Collective Impact
Create, Lead and Manage Community Partnership for Collective Impact

In a world where nonprofits and their employees frequently are asked to do more with less, collaboration and partnership building is necessary. While colleagues may agree on the end goal and steps to get there, what actually happens in the middle between partners can leave everyone pointing fingers. However, it is possible to build community development momentum even among competing agendas.

“Transcendence” occurs when we move from disgruntled worker to problem solver, from disenfranchised or subordinated citizen/employee to empowered strategist. The purpose of this book is to help provide the reader with tools to do so. But it doesn’t stop there. Within, the reader will move from burned out do-gooder staff to understanding their own overwhelmedness as a symptom of larger and solvable root causations – whether personal, institutional or cultural. Moving past stagnancy, they must embrace change and learn from other sectors realizing “it takes a village”. Then in partnership, the reader transcends their own limitations and may lift the community achieving real collective impact.

Using business supply chain, marketing, communication, psychology and more, readers apply strategies that transcend their sectors, roles and positions within the collective community for personal, professional and partnership improvement. Embodying empowerment, the reader must move through each state to understand what transcendence really means for them. Equipped with these tools change may occur and the spirit of their service may shine.