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Strategic Restructuring: Findings from a Study of Integrations and Alliances Among Nonprofit Social Science and Cultural Organizations in the United States

In 1999, La Piana Associates, in collaboration with the Chapin Hall Center for Children (a policy research institution at the University of Chicago ), conducted the largest ever national study on strategic restructuring in the nonprofit sector. The study was funded by the Nonprofit Sector Research Fund of the Aspen Institute and the Lilly Endowment.

The findings from Phase I of the two-part study were published in June 2000 in a report — Strategic Restructuring: Findings from a Study of Integrations and Alliances Among Nonprofit Social Service and Cultural Organizations in the United States — by Amelia Kohm, David La Piana, and Heather Gowdy. The report includes:

• Descriptions of the primary types of strategic restructuring partnerships: administrative consolidations, joint programs, management service organizations, joint ventures, parent-subsidiary structures, and mergers;
• Profiles of nonprofits involved in each type of partnership; and
• Survey findings on the motivations, goals, benefits, and challenges involved in strategic restructuring.

A free PDF of the Phase 1 report can be downloaded from the Chapin Hall Center for Children website.