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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 structurefrom collaboration to mergermeets 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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