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This unique environment typifies IORs as the college governing board relationship works with the foundation fundraising board relationship in interdependent ways to advance organizational goals. My study presents the Theory of Fundraising Relationship Management (TFRM) as a framework for understanding how fundraising professionals manage the relationships in the inter- organizational community college context. A model operationalizes TFRM and positions the college president-fundraiser dyad as central to the relationship management processes presented in four distinct quadrants: (1) formalizing board interdependence; (2) tailoring interactions; (3) enlisting and educating others; (4) and raising money. The management of these relationships are entrenched with dialectical tensions of empowerment- disempowerment, expressionsuppression, and integration-separation. 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