We have guided hundreds of mergers and partnerships to success, bringing out the best in organizations that hope to join forces. Drawing on the parties’ strengths and assets, we adapt our proven approach to your specific needs. Our process gets you to a decision quickly but not hastily. We then help guide that decision to sound execution and post-deal integration.

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Featured Resources

On the La Piana Consulting website, we have posted a number of helpful blogs related to nonprofit partnerships.

• Top 10 Questions We Hear About Mergers & Alliances
• Navigating the Complexities of a Potential Merger or Strategic Partnership
• Nonprofit M&A: a Sustainability Strategy (Independent Sector 2025 National Summit Pre-Conference Session)
• Merger FAQ
• La Piana Mergers and Alliance Toolkit
• Don’t Be Late to the Party – (La Piana Blog 2024)
• Bridging the Power Imbalances in Merger Negotiations(La Piana Blog 2024)
• It’s a New Day for Mergers (and Non-Merger Mergers) – The rise of a range of approaches to collaborative solutions
• Mergers from a Position of Strength: A Bold Opportunity for Today’s Nonprofits
• Don’t Be Late to the Party  – The case for proactive approaches to nonprofit merger
• When Does It Make Sense to Talk Merger?
• How Funders Can Support Strategic Partnerships in a Time of Crisis
• Three Ways Boards Advance Strategic Partnerships
• What Our Founder Learned From His First Nonprofit Merger
• Bridging the Power Imbalance in Merger Negotiations
• The Human Side of Mergers: Nurturing Trust and Overcoming Resistance
• When Shared Vision is not Enough
• Unlikely Alliances: How Nonprofits Can Acquire For-Profits as a Strategic Option
• Announcing Your Merger Publicly: Best Practices for Nonprofits in 2025
• It Takes a Team: Launching Your Merger Successfully

Additional Reading

• Background Grounding: Merging Wisely (SSIR 2010)
• Recent timely articles:
  • Programmatic Asset Transfers as a Strategic Tool for Social Impact (SSIR Spring 2025)
  • Exit to Open (SSIR April 2025)

Make decisions that make a difference, advancing your mission. Stay ahead of trends, see things in new ways, and quickly move from analysis to action. With our powerful Real-Time Strategic Planning approach, we will guide you in finding powerful solutions to your overarching questions, then help you put it all into practice.

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Featured Resources

On the La Piana Consulting website, we have posted a number of helpful blogs related to strategic planning.

• From Reaction to Choice: A Decision Lens for Mission Sustainability
• The Nonprofit Strategy Revolution
• Do I need a Strategic, Business, or Scenario Plan?
• Strategic Staff: A Nonprofit Essential
• Nonprofit Scenario Planning in an Age of Chaos
• La Piana’s Organizational Culture Survey

A business planning effort starts by creating a strategy, then assessing the economic and operational requirements for its success. Through an intensive, focused, iterative process, and using powerful financial modeling tools, La Piana helps clients to review and refine their current thinking, challenge assumptions, and reframe the organization’s plans as needed for maximum likelihood of success.

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On the La Piana Consulting website, we have posted a number of helpful blogs related to business planning.

Nonprofits thrive when they have the right strategies, leadership, and collaboration in place. Our cohort-based capacity-building programs are designed to support the common challenges your funding partners may all be facing — from growth pains and economic stresses to leadership changes and business model challenges. We strengthen organizations through facilitated discussions, workshops and hands-on learning that provide tailored support, practical tools, and a collaborative peer-learning environment.

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On the La Piana Consulting website, we have posted a number of helpful blogs related to capacity building.

Help your nonprofit – and every member of your team – to reach their full potential with proven strategies that conform to your organization’s unique culture, helping you become stronger, more resilient, and more effective in advancing your mission.

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Change Management Resources

On the La Piana Consulting website, we have posted a number of helpful blogs related to organizational development.

• E.D. Notes for the Field: The Only Constant
• Change Management Means Changing Management
• What We Learned from 50 Nonprofits Navigating Rapid Growth
• Frameworks That Can Help Your Nonprofit Manage Change
• In This Environment, We All Need to Adapt
• Adapt Change Primer: A Practical Guide for Social Sector Change