Event - Building Strategic Alliances: Collaboration, Shared Services, and Mergers - Texas Association of Nonprofit Organizations

Building Strategic Alliances: Collaboration, Shared Services, and Mergers

Speaker Matt Kouri

Executive Director Greenlights for Nonprofit Success Matt Kouri Matt Kouri is the Executive Director of Greenlights for NonProfit Success where he leads the organization’s efforts to strengthen Central Texas through extraordinary nonprofit performance, consults directly with a number of nonprofits, and develops leading-edge research and best practices in nonprofit management. ...

Executive Director
Greenlights for Nonprofit Success

Matt Kouri Matt Kouri is the Executive Director of Greenlights for NonProfit Success where he leads the organization’s efforts to strengthen Central Texas through extraordinary nonprofit performance, consults directly with a number of nonprofits, and develops leading-edge research and best practices in nonprofit management.

Matt joined Greenlights in 2007 after spending more than 11 years working to improve the public and nonprofit sectors in Austin and across the country. Matt most recently worked as a Senior Manager with Deloitte Consulting’s Austin office where he helped to lead a management consulting practice focused on serving nonprofit and governmental clients. While with Deloitte, he launched a K-12 education nonprofit in Dallas, oversaw transformations of two state Medicaid programs, and guided the largest government agency consolidation in Texas history. Prior to Deloitte, Matt worked on educational policy issues for the Chicago Public School System. Matt’s expertise spans a number of functional areas, including board governance, organizational assessment and improvement, strategic planning and execution, financial and operational management, human capital talent development, leadership development and coaching, technology adoption, and K-12 educational achievement.

Matt is personally passionate about orphans and adoption (he and his wife adopted two boys from Russia), mentoring teenagers, and living out his faith through his work. Matt is a published author and speaker on community engagement, generational leadership, and health and human services program transformation. He also serves as board president of Austin LifeCare, serves on the advisory board of Austin’s Campaign for Philanthropy, and regularly works with the Kiwanis youth leadership development program.

Matt holds an MBA and a Master of Public Policy degree from the University of Chicago and an undergraduate degree in economics from Oklahoma State University. Matt and his wife and two sons attend Grace Covenant Church where they lead an orphan and adoption ministry and serve as youth group leaders.

Full Description

In the nonprofit world, collaboration is not just a warm and fuzzy concept that makes us all feel better about our work. It is a critical component of how we do business, able to make up for some of the resources we often lack within our own organizations.

A 2009 Greenlights study shows that Central Texas has more than our fair share of nonprofits, and our nonprofits are disproportionally small as well. These facts make collaboration and strategic alliances between nonprofits even more important. Join us for this workshop which will explore the many forms of strategic alliance-building, from simple coordination of activities, to sharing services such as administrative staff and office space, to all-out formal merger of organizations.

This workshop will teach you how to critically evaluate your most important nonprofit relationships, show you real examples of collaborations that work, and help you develop an actual plan for enhancing your organization’s capacity and resources through strategic alliance-building.

Building Strategic Alliances: Collaboration, Shared Services, and Mergers

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