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The workbook is in four parts.
Part 1 – Thinking About New Programs: is developed around a series of questions and steps that you might need to consider, starting with your initial idea or dream about a new Big Brothers Big Sisters program, Boys and Girls Club, or some other program for children and young people. The flow of the chapters has been built around a logical sequence:
- Focus first on the needs and interests of children and young people
- Look at what already exists in the community
- Consider what programs might make a real difference to children and young people
- Develop a viable program plan
Part 2 – Thinking About Program Sustainability: takes the ideas of developing a sustainable program plan in Part 1 much further.
- Chapter 5 focuses on program sustainability issues.
- Chapter 6 focuses on developing a sustainable organizational home for your program.
Part 2 could be usefully read both by people concerned with developing new programs, and by people concerned with ensuring that current programs are sustainable.
Part 3 – Thinking About Organizational Sustainability: provides a general discussion of organizational sustainability issues, the strategies that non-profit organizations are pursuing, and some of the different organizational models that have emerged from these strategies.
Part 4 – Thinking About Partnering And Merging: opens up the discussions of deep partnering and merging. The information and advice is less detailed than that provided in Parts 1 and 2, but it is also augmented by Appendix O on joint ventures, and Appendix P on the challenges of partnering and merging.
- Chapter 8 focuses on deep partnering and merging more generally
- Chapter 9 provides advice on the processes for considering deep partnerships and mergers
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