Acknowledgments

We are grateful to everyone who contributed to the preparation of this volume. We particularly appreciate the collaboration of Michael Brown, co-founder and CEO of City Year, and Jeffrey Swartz, former CEO of Timberland—both of them pioneers in creating value through powerful nonprofit–business partnerships—for contributing the foreword to this book. At this writing, the enduring City Year–Timberland collaboration is celebrating its twenty-fifth anniversary.

We also thank a number of our collaboration colleagues, academics as well as practitioners, who enriched our thinking with their comments on our two 2012 NVSQ lead articles (Austin and Seitanidi, 2012a; Austin and Seitanidi, 2012b): Bruce Burtch; Steve Waddell; Professor Andrew Crane; Professor Roberto Gutierrez; Professor Jeff Brudney, Professor Femida Handy, and Professor Lucas Meijs; the NVSQ editors; and a multitude of other collaboration scholars and practitioners from whom we have learned so much, and to whom we have dedicated this book.

For valuable assistance on reference documentation, we thank Urlike Weske, a graduate student at Utrecht University; and Khondker Suraiya Nasreen, a doctoral student at Hull Business School. Thanks as well to María Jesús Barroso Méndez, a doctoral student at Universidad de Extremadura, for her work on the collection of cases.

At the Harvard Business School, we are indebted to Erika McCaffrey, information research specialist, whose impressive skill enabled our exhaustive process of literature review; to Chris Jones, document specialist, for his careful assistance in preparing the manuscript; and to Paula Alexander for administrative support.

We are also grateful to Alison Hankey, senior editor at Jossey-Bass, and her team; and to Alan Venable for editorial support and guidance in the process of developing the manuscript.