Sustained Collaboration: Unlocking Greater Impact Through Strategic Partnership (Option 1)

Across the nonprofit sector, leaders are rethinking how to achieve greater mission impact with limited resources. Collaboration isn’t just a trend—it’s a strategic advantage. This webinar series with Lara Jakubowski of La Piana Consulting goes beyond theory to explore practical pathways for sustained collaboration, including case studies demonstrating impact, cultural considerations, and potential structures to consider.

Designed as a follow-up to Lara’s Nonprofit Works 2025 keynote and workshop, we invite you to join us to discover how thoughtful collaboration can expand impact, strengthen resilience, and unlock new opportunities for your mission.

Please note we are providing two different offerings of this session to allow as community leaders to attend as possible. Please register for one time that best suits your schedule – once you have registered for one session you do not need to register for the other. The two options to register include: November 12 at Noon and December 10 at Noon. 

This session will be virtual – zoom info included in registration confirmation.

About our Facilitator

Lara Jakubowski (she/her), Partner, Head of Growth with LaPiana Consulting. Lara is a veteran leader in the social sector, with roots in community development finance and nonprofit capacity building. Her career has been inspired by the people and organizations committed to addressing income inequality. She focuses her client work on solutions that are evidence-based, practical, and sustainable. Lara meets clients where they are and leverages her experiences as a nonprofit Executive Director, lender to affordable housing developers, convener of nonprofits in shared spaces and shared services, Board Member, and technical assistance provider to build client impact.

Prior to joining La Piana in 2017, Lara served as Executive Director of the Nonprofit Centers Network, where she also held the position of national programs director. She has also been the principal of her own nonprofit management consultancy and was Executive Director at Impact Development Fund where she doubled the assets under management. She currently serves as a lecturer in nonprofit financial management at the University of Colorado at Denver’s School of Public Affairs.

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