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Strategic Restructuring:
Partnership Options for Nonprofits

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Partnership Matrix

Types of Strategic Restructuring

Administrative Consolidation

Joint Programming

Management Service Organizations

Joint Venture Corporation

Parent-subsidiary Structure

Merger

Structuring of Relationships Among Affiliates of National Nonprofits

Five Stages of Strategic Restructuring

 

 

 

 

Types of Strategic Restructuring
Administrative Consolidation

   

An administrative consolidation is a restructuring that includes the sharing, exchanging, or contracting of administrative functions to increase the administrative efficiency of one or more of the organizations involved. Such functions include accounting, human resources, information systems, marketing, and purchasing, among others. For example, a consortium of community-based primary health care clinics consolidated their financial and information management functions while each clinic continued to serve a distinct geographic and ethnic constituency, and to maintain a separate board of directors and management.

For more information, see these Case Studies on Administrative Consolidation.