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The Nonprofit Mergers Workbook:
The Leader's Guide to Considering, Negotiating, and Executing a Merger
David La Piana/Amherst H. Wilder Foundation/2000

The Nonprofit Mergers Workbook

This book contains everything you want to know about nonprofit mergers. This practical guide walks you through the entire merger process from assessing your reasons and readiness, to finding a partner, negotiating the deal, and completing the merger.

Topics include:

  • How to decide what kind of structure—from collaboration to merger—meets your goals
  • How to know your own motivation and keep your mission forefront
  • What kind of merger best fits your goals, structure, and financial situation
  • How to seek merger partners and objectively assess the pros and cons of each
  • How to manage the board's essential role in merger considerations
  • How to exercise due diligence and write the merger agreement
  • How to deal with the rumor mill
  • What you can do yourself, when to call in attorneys and consultants, and how to select them
  • Typical roadblocks and how to beat them
  • How to move past old history and build new traditions as you integrate staff, management, boards, systems, and corporate cultures
  • How to budget for and raise funds to implement the merger

Soft cover
8 ½" x 11"
228 pages

 
 
 

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