Spectrum of Collaborative Solutions
Mergers & Partnerships
Navigating the complexities of mergers and partnerships requires expertise, insight, and a commitment to strategic alignment. Mission + Strategy helps organizations navigate this process by fostering open communication between partners, ensuring alignment among key stakeholders, and guiding the collaboration every step of the way. Our team draws on its direct experience with mergers and partnerships to expertly plan and guide clients’ merger and acquisition process, leveraging the art of intentional, strategic collaboration to create alignment among key stakeholders and guide organizations through smooth transitions and effective integration.
Experts in Nonprofit Restructuring
As the largest provider of nonprofit restructuring services in the Midwest, we know how to help organizations find their synergies, create a glide path to alignment, and seamlessly implement a merger or other type of restructuring agreement. We combine our experience with careful listening and expert facilitation skills to guide you on the path to growing your impact by combining forces.
Our nonprofit mergers and partnership areas of expertise include:
Partner Identification
We help identify and assess potential partners that align with your organization's mission and strategic objectives, fostering initial connections that set the stage for collaboration.
Feasibility Assessments
We conduct objective evaluations of potential mergers or partnerships, focusing on strategic fit, mission alignment, and financial impact to ensure all parties’ decisions are informed by a clear picture of what’s possible.
Memorandum of Understanding Planning
We help organizations craft clear and detailed MOUs that align key stakeholders on the specific plan for partnering, serving as a solid foundation for legal closing documents or definitive agreements.
Integration Support
We provide ongoing guidance and resources to ensure successful implementation and seamless integration of partnerships and mergers. Building on our deep experience integrating our own organizations’ mergers and partnerships, we work with your team to define desired integration outcomes, and then co-create management routines, communication strategies, and other approaches to ensure those outcomes are realized.
Custom Solutions
We tailor solutions to meet your specific needs, ensuring flexibility and responsiveness to the unique challenges and opportunities you face. Whether you need help with a specific project or a more comprehensive strategy, we adapt our approach to support you.
“They have been incredible mentors in this process and have made the entire exploration comfortable, engaging and meaningful.”
Nancy Hughes Moyer, VOA Illinois
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Case Studies
Family Shelter Services and Metropolitan Family Services
Learn how a merger removed barriers for victims of domestic violence by offering seamless access to a comprehensive array of services.
Keystone Alliance, Glenkirk, and Search, Inc.
Learn how this unique parent-subsidiary structure helped Glenkirk and Search not only overcome significant challenges but also create a sustainable model for delivering high-quality services.
Changing Worlds & Foundations of Music
Learn how this program acquisition created quality arts programming for diverse learning communities.
