This is my third posting in a series on shared services alliances in the nonprofit sector. Aside from mergers, there is a wide variety of partial integration models that are extremely creative and productive that nonprofits can use. One of these models is called "shared services alliances."

This is my second posting on a series I am writing on nonprofit back-office integrations, or what these organizations refer to as Shared Services  Alliances.

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.

A very interesting story popped up in my Google search engine dated Sept. 28, 2009 from the Charlotte Observer. A county commission of very prestigious government and foundation institutions including the United Way of Central Carolinas and the Foundation for the Carolinas, have formed to identify strategies for addressing the funding losses for the  Charlotte-Mecklenberg community.

Occasionally I get a phone call from people wondering what the process is for shutting down a nonprofit. Believe it or not, there are forms you need to fill out with the IRS and your state to dissolve a nonprofit organization. I recently ran across a great blog posting by by someone named Don Griesman, who wrote a detailed explanation about what you have to do when ending the operations of a nonprofit organization or foundation in all the various situations: mergers, transferring assets, or simply shutting the door.