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Getting ready for collaboration: Learning from experience
June 2010
Brier, S., Harris, J and Bogdanova.M.

Getting ready for collaboration: Learning from experience has been written to help staff, trustees and volunteers from voluntary and community organisations (VCOs) to get ready for working in collaboration. The guide should help with all forms of collaboration – from sharing information and developing a common policy response to mergers.

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IVAR Findings: The Governance of Small Voluntary Organisations
May 2010
Hutchison, R., Buckley, E., Moran, R. and Ockenden, N.

This exploratory study, carried out by the Institute for Voluntary Action Research (IVAR) and the Institute for Volunteering
Research (IVR), aimed to explore the governance challenges facing small voluntary and community organisations (VCOs). 

 
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Forewarned is forearmed: critical factors for mergers
March 2010
Cairns.B

In a recent article for Trust and Foundation News, Ben Cairns discusses critical success factors for mergers, based on IVAR's recent review of four mergers carried out by The Adolescent and Children's Trust.

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