WNCA continues to catch the eye of state-wide organizations. Recently our efforts to collaborate with other Asheville-headquartered environmental groups were noted in the North Carolina Center for Non-profits spring issue, Common Ground.
In its front page article, entitled Do More with What You Already Have – Collaborate, the newsletter uses the example of WNCA meeting with three other environmental groups and funders to discuss possible collaborative steps they could take to save resources “during the current economic crisis and beyond.”
From this meeting, the article further notes, these organizations plan to survey 43 groups for ideas on how everyone might work together more efficiently.
WNCA Executive Director Julie Mayfield is quoted in the article a number of times. She stresses the possibilities of organizations sharing space, administrative costs, combining programs or even merging organizations.
“Best case scenario: we’ll have a really honest conversation, and people will be willing to stretch their boundaries in ways they didn’t think of when money was more plentiful.”
WNCA is a long-time member of the NC Center for Nonprofits.