Chapter Six
Assessing the Value of Collaboration Outcomes
Assessing the outcomes of collaborations between nonprofits and businesses is difficult but critical to their effective management. In practice, such assessment is generally fraught with complications. This chapter presents the final component of the CVC Framework: a systematic, multilevel approach to assessing collaboration value outcomes aimed at advancing the complicated task of evaluation.
Why Evaluate?
One is not collaborating for the sake of collaboration. Partners are investing scarce resources to generate value, and this investment, like all others, should be assessed to ascertain its productivity and to provide guidance for further enhancing the collaboration’s value generation. ...
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