Services
Supporting Successful Nonprofit Partnerships
We have developed unique consultation services for organizations interested in considering a merger or other form of strategic alliance. We can provide:
- Informational presentations to nonprofit boards and staff regarding strategic restructuring options and the negotiation process
- Facilitation of the negotiation process, and assistance with specific tasks such as due diligence, financial analysis, and human resources analysis
- Marketing, public relations, and communications planning
After negotiations are complete, we can help you fully implement your new partnership and lead you through the integration process. Such services include:
- Design of an overall integration plan and leadership structure
- Design of and/or training for the senior management team
- Board integration and development
- Cultural integration
- Integration of existing departments
- Financial and information systems integration
- Determination of benefits and salaries
- Facilitation of staff meetings
- Conflict resolution
- Web-based application design and integration of websites
- Implementation of marketing, public relations, and communications plans
- Business planning
La Piana Consulting can also help foundations and public funders to understand the basics of strategic restructuring, and provide a framework to use in evaluating partnership options. We can suggest appropriate and helpful ways to encourage closer working relationships among grantees and/or contract agencies, promoting collaborative relationships and less duplication (an area where funder intervention often backfires).
Other ways we can be of assistance to funders include:
- Providing guidance to groups of funders to develop joint ventures or other collaborative relationships;
- Helping small foundations to gain administrative efficiencies through consolidation of services, freeing up trustees and staff to focus on grantmaking; and
- Conducting research and making presentations at funder gatherings on topics ranging from organizational change to strategic restructuring.
