Can do-gooders do good by doing good together? - Long Island Business News

Can do-gooders do good by doing good together? - Long Island Business News: "Can do-gooders do good by doing good together?

By Claude Solnik

Friday, June 1, 2007

Faced with a famously fractured not-for-profit landscape, the United Way of Long Island is looking to lead charities to a, well, more united way.

The Deer Park-based group is forming a committee of 15 to 20 business, labor, nonprofit and educational leaders to study how to make nonprofits more efficient, and at the top of the list is identifying duplicative services. The committee can then recommend collaborations and mergers; it plans to issue a report by the fall."