Remarkable Partnerships

JANUARY 3, 2023

Including 6 learnings on building corporate partnerships. That’s how I used to view corporate fundraising. All that has changed, because now I understand the basis on how to build corporate partnerships that last. You focus on the shared purpose between your charity and the potential corporate partner.

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Stellar Partnerships

APRIL 3, 2023

We know that non-profit leaders often have unrealistic expectations when they embark on a corporate partnerships program. But corporate partnerships are complex and take time to build properly. Take a hard look at the energy suckers who command your time, energy and resources but haven’t committed much recently.

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Be Partner Ready

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Joining forces with Georgia McIntosh, I’m expanding my impact through BePartnerReady.com®, empowering non-profits to forge transformative corporate partnerships and at the same time, ensuring that my legacy is in good hands. Explore options such as corporate partnerships, bequests, even a social enterprise.

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Stellar Partnerships

JANUARY 17, 2022

Your energy follows your attention, as anyone with a demanding toddler will attest. It’s too easy to have your attention stolen by people and events that are energy suckers, giving you little return for your effort. Don’t be afraid to explore the enormous potential of partnerships for your organisation.

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Be Partner Ready

MAY 30, 2021

As Yogi Berra once said “ if you don’t know where you’re going, you’ll end up somewhere else ” That’s why the BePartnerReady.com® process starts with setting an intention for corporate partnerships. Keen to set a corporate partnerships Intention? You’re in luck!

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Stellar Partnerships

JULY 11, 2021

That can be weekend cycling rides or partnership success. Progress in corporate partnerships is a tricky thing to measure but needs careful attention. Unfortunately, corporate partnerships don’t play by the same rules as they’re not formulaic, they’re relationship driven. Learn from success and failure.

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Stellar Partnerships

MAY 30, 2021

The F word in partnerships is “fundraising”. Corporate partnerships are typically the awkward teenagers in a non-profit family; they look familiar, but it’s an uneasy fit. That’s why partnerships are usually corralled into fundraising. It was lucrative annual income that boosted the partnership team’s KPIs.

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Stellar Partnerships

JANUARY 21, 2024

Culture of collaboration We know that corporate partnerships take a whole of organisation effort, so there needs to be a culture of collaboration to support them. If you’d like to sustain your corporate partnerships over time, you need to continually innovate. Tokyo is a city of 37 million people.

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Stellar Partnerships

JUNE 12, 2022

When non-profit leaders set partnership targets at the end of each financial year, they’re invariably about income. Apart from staff salaries, they often overlook the true costs of corporate partnerships and how to assess them properly. Probably not- so why are you waiting to explore corporate partnerships?

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Stellar Partnerships

AUGUST 15, 2021

Lack of investment in your partnership people leads to rapid turnover and a break in relationship continuity. It’s harder to build a strong and meaningful corporate partnership when your people change so often. Corporate partnerships provide an opening to new channels, audiences and donors. Fundraising value.

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Stellar Partnerships

JULY 4, 2021

It’s a challenge for charities to keep the relationship with a corporate partner fresh and engaged, especially when the partnership has been established for a while. We often talk about partnerships as a marriage, not a speed date. The corporate chose some high performing staff to attend and then blog about their experience.

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Be Partner Ready

JUNE 3, 2024

If you’re reflecting on your corporate partnerships’ strategy, now is an ideal time for a review. It’s only then that you know the value of your brand and your assets and can articulate what you can offer in return (a partnership is, of course, a two-way exchange of benefit). You’re in luck!

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Be Partner Ready

JUNE 18, 2023

B2Bs like Woodside, BHP and Origin Energy have benefited from increased demand and a rise in profit. When considering your corporate partnerships strategy, focus on the facts, not scaremongering. These sectors include travel & tourism, energy, food & beverages and tech (especially market disrupting tech) [5].

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Banking Energy Corporate partnerships Retail 130

Stellar Partnerships

OCTOBER 1, 2023

When organisations ask partnership people to focus on bringing in corporate money, they miss the point. Whilst cash helps to grease the wheels of operations, that’s not what partnerships are all about. Adding the input of brilliant people at the right time can inject new energy and provide a disruptive edge to the organisation.

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Stellar Partnerships

NOVEMBER 19, 2023

But the brainpower needed to constantly switch drains our energy and we end up more tired and less effective at all of them. Resilience is important for corporate partnership executives. It takes a lot of effort and lead time to win and develop a corporate partner.

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Stellar Partnerships

NOVEMBER 5, 2023

When you’re working hard for corporate partnerships and your CEO is pushing hard for more income, it’s hard to see that the much needed path to prosperity is actually a blind alley. Here are some common ways we can get stuck and unstuck on the partnership path.

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Stellar Partnerships

JUNE 5, 2022

The mantra we often hear from partnership managers is that a partnership is ‘all about awareness’. We usually find that a partnership is all about awareness after the corporate decides not to give you any cash. Brand awareness is a useful benefit from a corporate partnership but should only be one pillar of value.

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Remarkable Partnerships

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

So, the Remarkable Partnerships team have put together six recommendations on how to stay positive in the pandemic. If we let ourselves, it can be all too easy to see the barriers to building major corporate partnerships and declare it an impossible task. Be inspired by others’ successes. Everyone will be better for it.

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Remarkable Partnerships

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Digital mobilisation meets corporate partnerships. It reminded us of something that Joe Waters of SelfishGiving.com raves about, which is the exciting area where digital mobilisation meets corporate partnerships. At some stage our energy and optimism are going to take a dip. So, who inspires the inspirers?

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Remarkable Partnerships

OCTOBER 18, 2022

In November 2018, a carers’ charity and a huge energy company announced a major partnership. It was the biggest partnership the charity had ever built. In October 2022, the impact of this partnership is unbelievable. The importance of focus. They needed to focus on fewer, more meaningful opportunities.

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Stellar Partnerships

MAY 7, 2023

The investment of time and effort will help you get to the important issues quickly and show the corporate prospect that you’ve done the work to really understand their situation. Be prepared to walk away Partnerships take time and effort and you want to be sure you’re spending it on the real opportunities.

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Banking Retail Energy Corporate partnerships 130

Stellar Partnerships

APRIL 21, 2024

They probably range from your favourites who have supported you loyally for years and don’t ask for much in return, to some who are divas demanding continual attention and energy. If you have a large portfolio of partners of different sizes and needs you may be a bit overstretched in servicing all of them.

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Frost & Sullivan

DECEMBER 6, 2022

In response, companies and municipalities can address the challenges head-on by focusing on sustainable energy solutions, out-of-the-box business models, and efficient workflows. The impacts of these techniques rely on backwash maintenance, contaminant removal efficiency, speed, application diversity, and energy consumption.

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Energy Banking Corporate partnerships Government 52

Remarkable Partnerships

APRIL 26, 2022

It can be all too easy to find ourselves in a negative news cycle – the Cost of Living Crisis, the war in Ukraine, the Great Resignation – and imagine that corporate partnerships success is impossible. Lyn Prodger, Partnerships Manager at AFK, tells us that the key to her corporate partnerships success is being consistent.

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Remarkable Partnerships

AUGUST 23, 2022

So, before you start putting lots of effort and energy into your new job, make sure you clarify your objectives first. And at Remarkable Partnerships we want every corporate fundraiser to feel supported, especially in the early days. In other words, preparation is important.

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Remarkable Partnerships

MARCH 22, 2022

Being able to build relationships is essential for corporate partnerships success. Partnership is the name of the game – and that means you can’t do it alone. Goals help you increase your energy, excitement and productivity. Able to build relationships. This is because setting goals helps you gain greater focus.

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Remarkable Partnerships

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

So next time you’re in a meeting and there’s someone who is doing all the talking and they are really taking over they are probably ‘Yellow’ in their energy and want to be involved. Applying insights to corporate partnerships. You will also see why you instantly ‘click’ with some people and not others.

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Remarkable Partnerships

OCTOBER 4, 2022

The price of crude oil and gas has also risen sharply, having a major impact on energy-intensive sectors. Due to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, businesses have seen major supply chain disruption that few process industries have managed to avoid. With increase costs for critical parts and materials, companies are facing a cash flow crisis.

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Energy Collaboration Corporate partnerships 52

Stellar Partnerships

JULY 24, 2022

Non-profits make the same mistake when trying to measure corporate partnerships. How does that play out when measuring the success of corporate partnerships? It’s fair that non-profits are keenly interested in receiving cash from corporate partners, but money is not always the thing that achieves mission success.

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Stellar Partnerships

OCTOBER 20, 2024

The corporate partnerships then become program partners in building workforce skills. You wouldn’t pitch a partnership that focuses on PR or feelgood stories as the businesses are clearly keen to make a bigger impact that integrates with their core skills and needs.

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Remarkable Partnerships

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Even though I explained that we needed to share the problems that people face to engage potential corporate partners, they refused to budge. This internal resistance diluted the power of the stories which made it hard to build partnerships. It wastes huge amounts of time, energy and money. Internal conflict is draining.

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Stellar Partnerships

OCTOBER 3, 2021

February is traditionally prime pitching time for new corporate partnerships. Have you taken a hard look at your existing partnerships? There are always the energy suckers, who demand a Rolls Royce level of attention for a disappointingly low commitment in return. Does it spark joy?

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Banking Corporate partnerships Energy 130

Stellar Partnerships

APRIL 19, 2021

We enlisted in puppy training to understand how her doggy brain works and how to channel her energy into more useful activities. In the same way, offering something to a corporate partnership prospect has the same effect. Cues, incentives and some simple techniques did the trick. You’re repaying the gift of hospitality.

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