This case study is one in a series of snapshots about The Collaboration Prize 2009 Finalists. Written by Melissa Mendes Campos, with Jo DeBolt and Robert Harrington, this resource describes the merger of Crittenton, Inc. and The Women's Union, into Crittenton Women's Union. The Collaboration Prize is designed to inspire cooperation among nonprofit organizations. La Piana Consulting managed the design and implementation of the 2009 Collaboration Prize for the Lodestar Foundation.

More Reports and Monographs

Models of Strategic Restructuring Case Study: Ready, Set, Parent! Joint Programming

This case study is one in a series of snapshots about The Collaboration Prize 2009 Finalists. Written by Lindsay Vignoles, with Jo DeBolt, Melissa Mendes Campos, and Robert Harrington, this resource describes Ready, Set, Parent!, a joint programming effort of EPIC-Every Person Influences Children and Baker Victory Services. The Collaboration Prize is designed to inspire cooperation among nonprofit organizations. La Piana Consulting managed the design and implementation of the 2009 Collaboration Prize for the Lodestar Foundation.

Due Diligence Done Well: A Guide for Grantmakers

Written by La Piana Consulting and published by Grantmakers for Effective Organizations (GEO) in November 2010, Due Diligence Done Well: A Guide for Grantmakers has updated information to reflect new learning about effective due diligence and is accompanied by a new supplemental online toolkit for GEO members with detailed research questions, assessment criteria and more resources for grantmakers. The guide is based on The Due Diligence Tool, written by La Piana Consulting and published by GEO in 2004.

Real Collaboration, A Guide for Grantmakers

Real Collaboration is a guide for grantmakers — written by David La Piana in January 2001 at the request of the Ford Foundation — that makes recommendations on how program officers can make better, more effective use of collaboration among grantees.

In Search of Strategic Solutions: A Funders Briefing on Nonprofit Strategic Restructuring

After five years of research, training, and consulting in the area of strategic restructuring, Strategic Solutions and Chapin Hall Center for Children, a policy research center at the University of Chicago, offer In Search of Strategic Solutions: A Funders Briefing on Nonprofit Strategic Restructuring, written by David La Piana and Amelia Kohm, and published by Grantmakers for Effective Organizations (GEO) in January 2003.

This report revisits the questions first posed in Beyond Collaboration, and addresses them by drawing on findings from our recent national study on strategic restructuring, as well as learnings from other Strategic Solutions research and consulting activities.