The Lodestar Foundation

FUNDER COLLABORATIVE TO SUPPORT COLLABORATIONS AROUND THE WORLD: In 1999, The Lodestar Foundation and SeaChange Capital Partners, a business-oriented advisory services organization serving the nonprofit sector, established the SeaChange-Lodestar Fund for Nonprofit Collaboration to support collaborations. With the belief that collaboration can be a... valuable capacity-building tool for nonprofit organizations to increase the efficiency, effectiveness, and sustainability with which they pursue their missions, the SeaChange-Lodestar Fund's mission is to encourage and support mergers, acquisitions, joint-ventures, and other types of formal, long-term collaboration among nonprofit organizations. FUNDER COLLABORATIVE TO SUPPORT NONPROFIT COLLABORATION IN NYC: The Lodestar Foundation is a founding member of The New York Merger, Acquisition, and Collaboration Fund (NYMAC), a funder collaborative designed to encourage and enable mergers, acquisitions, and other types of formal, long-term collaborations between nonprofit organizations working in New York City. NYMAC, which is managed by SeaChange Capital Partners, provides grants to support the exploration and/or implementation of such collaborations and also supports educational activities promoting collaboration in the five boroughs of New York City. FUNDER COLLABORATIVE TO SUPPORT NONPROFIT COLLABORATION IN PHILADELPHIA:The Lodestar Foundation is a founding member of the Philadelphia Repositioning Fund, a funder collaborative created to improve the capacity, effectiveness and financial health of nonprofits in the greater Philadelphia area by encouraging and supporting formal long-term collaborations. In addition to providing funds to explore and implement such collaborations, the Fund actively engages in field-building activities to expand knowledge about collaboration. The Fund is housed at the Philadelphia Foundation and administered by Philanthropy Network Greater Philadelphia. ARIZONA NONPROFIT CAPACITY BUILDING LANDSCAPE PROJECT: Lodestar is one of a group of ...Read More