Collaboration
Shared Services Alliances: Part 2
A look at nonprofit back-office integrations, or Shared Service Alliances.
A look at nonprofit back-office integrations, or Shared Service Alliances.
Nonprofits need to share information and resources.
David La Piana has been recognized as a leading expert on nonprofit management and governance. In this audio lecture sponsored by the Stanford Center for Social Innovation, La Piana presents a continuum of partnership options ranging from strategic alliance to joint ventures to full-scale mergers, all to which falls under a term he has coined as strategic restructuring. Nonprofit management leaders are finding strategic restructuring as a way to respond to the current economic conditions.
Funders are increasingly pressuring nonprofits to merge, however, mergers are not always the right path for nonprofits in financial distress.
An interview with the CEO of Arizona Children's Association on the organization's merger strategy.
Ideas for increasing the impact of nonprofits through value-driven mergers, partnerships and management
Merge Minnesota: Nonprofit Merger as an Opportunity for Survival and Growth published by MAP for Nonprofits proves a useful source of information about the merging process of nonprofits.
Collaboration Prize competition entries prove a rich resource for nonprofit mergers.
An account of the recipients of the Lodestar Foundation and the Arizona-Indiana-Michigan Alliance (AIM)'s prize for the best nonprofit collaboration in the country.
Mergers may require their own specific funding. The author recommends various sources for such funding.