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How can governments and nonprofit organizations work collaboratively with Each other?
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How can governments and nonprofit organizations work collaboratively with Each other?

It is common knowledge that nonprofit organizations and governments mutually depend

on one another because they need each other to make social changes that the government cannot.

This means that when governments have to cut out on spending money on correcting any social

issue, they would take the support of nonprofit organizations and also fund them to ensure that

they are more successful in fixing the issue. “Collaborative public management is a concept that

describes the process of 88 Rosemary O’Leary facilitating and operating in multi-organizational

arrangements to solve problems that cannot be solved or easily solved by single organizations.

Collaboration can include the public. (Guy & Rubin, (2015))” this Quote by Mary Guy effectively

defines the reasoning behind non-profit organizations collaborating. Furthermore, nonprofit

organizations rely on the government for most of the funding because the government can fund

nonprofit organizations. For example, over 30% of public charities call for governmental

resources. This means that, while the government cannot correct the social issue by itself, it can

rely on funding the nonprofit organization so that they can work on the issue themselves and

utilize other sources for funding for the social issue.

Furthermore, the government relies heavily on nonprofit organizations to provide

civilians with the services it cannot provide. Contracts with governments are significant for

organizing nonprofit organizations because it ensures that the non-profit organization can have a

stable revenue stream for their work and the organization can continue to function as it is

supposed to. This means that organizations must have specific strategies to effectively work with

the government. The organizations must evaluate what level of government they want to engage

with, for example, if they work mostly locally, within the state, or with the entire nation. This

would allow the organization to effectively evaluate what level of government they want to work
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with. Furthermore, it is also essential for organizations to understand the structure of the

government and how the resources and information flow into that.

By collaborating, the government and the organization can ensure that they can make

even more significant differences in the community due to their collaborative work. This would

also allow the knock of the origination to maximize their area of work. For example, if they are

successful in a single area or a state, it will allow them to move on to another state; this would

enable the organization to maximize the area of the work and improve the effects that their work

would have on the issue. For example, nonprofit organizations must have specific skills to get the

necessary funding from different sources other than the government. These would require the

organization to have good public speaking and communication skills so that they can relay their

message and their goal to the people and other private organizations and get their support.

Alongside government, it would also be beneficial for the non-profit organization to work on

relationship-building skills and build a relationship with the government and other private

organizations. Then comes one of the essential skills necessary for nonprofit organizations,

which is that they should have accurate budget allocation skills to successfully allocate the

necessary budget for each aspect of the work. This would mean that they would have first to

evaluate the different sources of revenue that they have the revenue they receive every year. This

would allow them to allocate specific percentages of the budget to certain aspects of their work,

which would also significantly improve the company's problem-solving skills and allow them to

make better and more significant impacts on the social issue and effectively eliminate it.
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References

Guy, M. E., & Rubin, M. M. (2015). Public administration evolving. Taylor & Francis.