Live note-taking of the South By Southwest Interactive panel discussion "A Global Conversation: Free Agents and Noprofits in a Networked World." Panel discussion moderated by Beth Kanter, including Danielle Brigida, Mark Horvath and Jessica Dheere.

This guest blog post continues the discussion of nonprofit collaboration, but from the funder's perspective. Guest contributor Ed Nicholson, who manages corporate philanthropy for Tyson Foods, offers his perspective on why collaboration and coopetition is good for the cause and the funder.