While the economy has boomed since the Great Recession, so too have real estate rents and gentrification in cities across North America; nonprofits priced out of formerly affordable neighborhoods lack adequate workplaces to meet their missions. Shared Space and the New Nonprofit Workplace presents a comprehensive overview of shared space as an innovative model and effective long-term solution for nonprofit organizations' need for stable and affordable office and program space. In particular, it focuses on co-locating multiple nonprofits in shared spaces, often called nonprofit centers, with shared services and a collaborative culture. This comprehensive resource provides a practical road map to develop new workspaces; documents benefits for nonprofit staff, organizations, and their communities; presents challenges and solutions from successful nonprofit shared spaces; and considers nonprofit centers' history and future trends. Further, it offers nonprofits an opportunity to engage in forward-thinking practices, such as collaborative service delivery, green building operations, and cross-sector alliances. The book will be useful to nonprofit executives, staff and board members, foundations, philanthropists, real estate and urban planning professionals interested in creating these projects, and researchers and students of the nonprofit sector.

Auteur

China Brotsky, a serial social entrepreneur in the charitable sector in the United States and Canada, has created multiple nonprofit centers and shared services programs. Sarah M. Eisinger, LEED AP, currently serves as director of JCamp 180, a program of the Harold Grinspoon Foundation, located in western Massachusetts. She has more than 20 years of experience in the nonprofit, real estate, community development and philanthropic fields. Diane Vinokur-Kaplan, PhD, MSW, is Associate Professor Emerita at the University of Michigan School of Social Work.

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REFLECTION PREFACE OVERVIEW OF THE BOOK PART 1. INTRODUCTION Chapter 1. A New Model for Nonprofits: Shared Space and the Nonprofit Center Chapter 2. Stories from the Field: Once Upon a Time: The Story of the Literacenter By Stacy Ratner (Chicago, Illinois) PART 2. HOW TO CREATE A NONPROFIT CENTER Chapter 3. Mission Comes First: How to Create a Nonprofit Center Chapter 4. A Profile of Existing Nonprofit Centers Chapter 5. Making the Case: Gaining Support for Your Center with Data-Driven Results PART 3. REAL ESTATE, FUNDING, AND FINANCING Chapter 6. The Development Process Chapter 7. Finding a Home: Site Selection for Nonprofit Centers Chapter 8. Stories from the Field: The Alliance Center: Colorado's Hub of Sustainability By John Powers and Janna Six (Denver, Colorado) Chapter 9. Stories from the Field: A Developer's Perspective: The David Brower Center By John Clawson, Equity Community Builders (Berkeley, California) PART 4. OWNERSHIP AND GOVERNANCE Chapter 10. Who Drives Decisions: Ownership and Governance of Nonprofit Centers Chapter 11. Stories from the Field: Building Community, Not Just Buildings: United Way Toronto and York Region's Community Hubs By Lorraine Duff, United Way (Toronto and York Region, Ontario) Chapter 12. Stories from the Field: The Common Roof (TM): A Values-Driven Approach to a Rural Nonprofit Center By Glen Newby (Barrie, Ontario) PART 5. DESIGN Chapter 13. The Design Process: Creating a Working Shared Space Chapter 14. Stories from the Field: Universal Design: Creating the Ed Roberts Campus By William Leddy, Leddy Maytum Stacy Architects (Berkeley, California) PART 6. OPERATIONS Chapter 15. Facilities That Facilitate: Nonprofit Center Operations By Saul Ettlin and Kim Sarnecki Chapter 16. Stories from the Field: Creating Social Innovation Through Shared Space, Social Bonds, and Community Animation By Centre for Social Innovation (Toronto, Ontario) Chapter 17. Stories from the Field: From Grants to Earned Income: Changing the Financial Profile at NEW Center By Yodit Mesfin Johnson (Ann Arbor, Michigan) PART 7. COLLABORATION Chapter 18. Creating Collaboration in Nonprofit Centers Chapter 19. Stories from the Field: The Collaboration Project: A Virtual Learning Lab By Lara Jakubowski and Katie F. Edwards, Nonprofit Centers Network (Denver, Colorado) Chapter 20. Stories from the Field: Because the Future Needs Everyone: National Youth Transitions Center By Jessie MacKinnon and Danielle Cameron, National Youth Transitions Center (Washington, DC) PART 8. SHARED SERVICES AND REPLICATION Chapter 21. Deepening the Shared Space Model: Advanced Nonprofit Center Approaches Chapter 22. Stories from the Field: Fiscal Sponsorship and Shared Space: A Natural Fit By Jonathan Spack (Boston, Massachusetts) Chapter 23. Stories from the Field: The Power of Shared Services to Enhance Cultural Flourishing: The CultureWorks Management Commons By Thaddeus Squire (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) PART 9. GOVERNMENT, PHILANTHROPY, AND SOCIAL ENTERPRISE Chapter 24. Partnering with Allies: Government, Philanthropy, Social Enterprise, and Community Development Chapter 25. Stories from the Field: Denver's Test Kitchen: Creating a Recipe to Nurture and Coordinate a Region's Shared Spaces By Megan Devenport (Denver, Colorado) Chapter 26. Stories from the Field: A Strategic Use of Municipal Assets: The Arts Factory By Marietta Kozak (Vancouver, British Columbia) Chapter 27. Stories from the Field: Rent Support in a Volatile Market: Sobrato Centers for Nonprofits By Megan Corning, Mara Williams Low, and Kelly Costa (Silicon Valley, California) PART 10. SHARED SPACE AND NONPROFIT CENTERS AS A FIELD OF PRACTICE Chapter 28. Key Lessons to Learn from Earlier Nonprofit Centers Chapter 29. It Takes a Network to Build a Field: Lessons of the Nonprofit Centers Network (NCN) Chapter 30. Will Nonprofit Centers Continue to Increase? Trends to Consider PART 11. CONCLUSIONS Chapter 31. Looking to the Future