How to Forge Successful Partnerships
New, comprehensive guide to designing, implementing and measuring the success of corporate-NGO partnerships
When businesses and non governmental organizations (NGO) work together, they can achieve remarkable results.
The Global Environmental Management Initiative (GEMI) and Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) have joined forces to make it easier for such partnerships to be designed and executed effectively.
Their Guide to Successful Corporate-NGO Partnerships [PDF] is a comprehensive aid to organizing, designing, implementing and measuring the success of such endeavors.
Best practices outlined
The guide is filled with case examples, including some from EDF's long history of ground-breaking corporate teamwork:
- Sharing a common vision is part of what made our FedEx hybrid-electric delivery truck project successful.
- A clear project roadmap was key in our work reducing corporate fleet emissions with PHH Arval and their first GreenFleet partner, Abbott Labs.
- Building a strong multidisciplinary team, drawn from both partners, helped EDF and DuPont's work to make nanotechnology safer.
- Aligning partners along the supply chain was vital in helping Smithfield Foods and Compass Group reduce antibiotic use in pork products.
Applicable to more than just environmental work
The guide focuses on environmental projects, but the lessons learned can apply to any sustainability-driven partnership between businesses and NGOs.
Working together, businesses and NGOs can reach their goals while benefiting the environment, society and the bottom line. And the GEMI-EDF guide makes working together easier than ever.
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Posted: 24-Dec-2008; Updated: 31-Oct-2008
