Paradigm Alert: The Collaberation Prize

The Collaboration Prize recognizes collaborations among two or more nonprofit organizations that each would otherwise provide the same or similar programs or services and compete for clients, financial resources and staff. The Prize also seeks to build an information base of effective practice models that can be studied and used by academics, nonprofit leaders and grantmakers to inspire and advance their work.

The Collaboration Prize

The Lodestar Foundation was created to put into practice a set of five interrelated sequential principles:

* First, the basic goal of all humans is happiness.

* Second, happiness can only be found by identifying and striving to achieve a meaningful purpose for one's existence.

* Third, one meaningful purpose is to endeavor to help one's fellow man.

* Fourth, although there are countless ways to help, ultimately the ability to help is limited by one's time, money and other resources.

* Fifth, by identifying and adopting a mission that is not focused on any specific field of interest and focusing instead on leveraging resources (that is, providing the most help with the most effective and efficient use of resources), those resources can maximize the impact of helping others and thereby create a greater opportunity to achieve happiness.

The Lodestar Foundation, a grantmaking organization, is devoted to leveraging philanthropy by promoting the strategic investment of capital, both human and financial. They envision a civil society in which all individuals recognize that personal fulfillment is attained through civic participation and in which all resources available to nonprofits are utilized with maximum effectiveness and efficiency. They prize innovation and are comfortable investing in creative strategies. In addition to supporting programs and projects, our flexibility allows us to make grants for organizational capacity-building, technical assistance and to provide funds to facilitate active cooperation among nonprofits. Rather than focusing on specific fields of interest like traditional foundations, our goals are to support nonprofits by encouraging philanthropy generally and to serve as a catalyst for change by focusing on reforming process -the way nonprofit business is done.

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