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The recent Small Charity Week and Refugee Week has inspired Dr Vita Terry, a PhD student associated with the Centre for Voluntary Sector Leadership, to think about refugee community organisations (RCOs) and the important role they play within society. Read her blog here.

If you want to collaborate with another organisation, it pays to understand why some partnerships don't work, writes Professor Siv Vangen, Director of the Centre for Voluntary Sector Leadership at The Open University Business School. Read her blog here.

Research conducted by The Open University Business School’s Centre for Voluntary Sector Leadership shows that the public trust in smaller charities far exceeds that of their larger counterparts. This blog is written by Dr James Rees, the former Director of the Centre for Voluntary Sector Leadership.

'The question for many leaders is: how far are we willing to compromise, what kind of trade-offs are reasonable, and when does collaboration simply threaten our identity too significantly to be worth the potential benefits?' This blog is third in a series written by Dr Carol Jacklin-Jarvis. Here, she discusses the dilemmas of leading across boundaries.