Cross-sectoral collaborations between nonprofit organizations and businesses: implications for organizations providing mental health rehabilitation services
Noga Pitowsky‐Nave, Michal Almog‐Bar, Hillel Schmid
Social Work in Mental Health
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This paper presents a case study of a community garden in Israel that emerged from a collaboration between a Social Service Nonprofit Organization (SSNO) providing mental health rehabilitation services and a real-estate business firm. Based on interviews with key figures, onsite observations, and document analysis, it examined the inter-organizational dynamics of this collaboration and its benefits and challenges for the SSNO and its service users. The results show that collaborating with a business can offer SSNOs benefits in financial resources and volunteers, but also involves difficulties, which were intensified in the context of a mental-health-focused SSNO.