The area of nonprofit co-located and shared space is still a relatively small, but a burgeoning ecosystem of complex arrangements of social purpose real estate, elaborate funding and financing tapestries, driven by an array of missions and visions, with the underlying motivation to continue to improve what we do as a global nonprofit community. Symptomatic of the nonprofit sector per se, the importance of developing and nurturing interpersonal relationships has provided the greatest insight into how these centres are created, developed and sustained.