The Boston Foundation announced a $1.7M Catalyst Fund to underwrite nonprofit mergers and collaborations in New England. Read about it here:
http://www.boston.com/business/articles/2010/09/22/boston_foundation_other_groups_promise_more_clout_for_charities/ .
MergeMinnesota, a how-to book about nonprofit mergers, is now available as a PDF on the MAP for Nonprofits web site.
The Lodestar Foundation has announced the launch of their 2011 Collaboration Prize. This prize recognizes notable nonprofit partnerships and provides $250,000 in prizes, including one, $150,000 prize to the winners. Go here to find out more about the prize: http://www.thecollaborationprize.org/ .
The Lodestar Foundation announced that they donated their Nonprofit Collaboration Database to the Foundation Center. Now you can go here http://foundationcenter.org/gainknowledge/collaboration/ - to find models of nonprofit joint ventures, MSO's, parent corporations, and mergers.
Nonprofit strategic re-structuring is more than mergers and stakeholders in the sector need to learn to distinguish between mergers and other forms of partial and full integrations in order to keep nonprofits interested in these types of strategies.
Great new article on nonprofit mergers by David LaPiana in the new issue of Stanford Social Innovation Review, "Merging Wisely." Argues that there are lots of alternatives to mergers, and groups should really check them out.
New Strategic Re-Structuring Training Coming: An expanded four-hour session on nonprofit strategic re-structuring - at the Donors Forum, Tues., Jan. 26th, 8:30 to 12:30. To sign-up go to: https://s07.123signup.com/servlet/SignUp?PG=1532164182300&P=153216400 .
Northern Illinois regional planning organization leads the way in restructuring services through the American Recovery act.
My clients the Badger Association of the Blind & Visually Impaired, and the Center for Blind & Visually Impaired Children just voted to merge this week. Congratulations to them both!