Strategic Restructuring:
Partnership Options for Nonprofits

Publications
Reports, Papers and Handbooks

Alter, Kim, et. al. When is it Time to Say Goodbye? Exit Strategies and Venture Philanthropy Funds. Virtue Ventures, Social Venture Partners and The Roberts Foundation, September 2001. http://www.redf.org/download/other/exitstrategy.pdf

Amherst Wilder Foundation. Nonprofit Decline and Dissolution Project Report. Minneapolis: Amherst Wilder Foundation, 1989.

Becker, Thomas E. (1999).  Innovation in Context: New Foundation Approaches to Evaluation, Collaboration and Best Practices.  Working Paper of the Human Interaction Research Institute.

The Community Collaboration Manual. Washington, D.C.: National Assembly of National Health and Social Welfare Organizations, January 1991.

CompassPoint Nonprofit Services. Strategic Partnerships in the AIDS Service Community. Northern California Grantmakers, 2001.

Connolly, Paul and Peter York (2002). Pulling Together: Strengthening the Nonprofit Sector through Strategic Restructuring: The Conservation Company.

Dewey, Kate R. and Sarah Wertheimer (1998).  Nonprofit Partnerships: Meeting the Needs of the Marketplace (Handbook).

Greater New York Fund/United Way. Merger: Another Path Ahead. New York: Greater New York Fund, 1981.

Habana-Hafner, Sally and Reed, Horace B. Partnerships for Community Development. Center for Organizational & Community Development, University of Mass., 1989, 123 pages.

Kohm, Amelia.  Cultural Clashes in Non-Profit Partnerships: What’s Going On And What Can We Do?  Chapin Hall Center For Children.  Fall 2004.  http://www.chapinhall.org/article_abstract_new.asp?ar=1357&L2=62&L3=107

Kreidler, John. "Leverage Lost: The Nonprofit Arts in the Post-Ford Era." Circulated in manuscript, version dated March 16, 1996.

Leicher, Susan. The Strategic Alliance Fund: Lessons Learned in the First and Second Years. 1998, 58 pp. For information on this report and/or the Strategic Alliance Fund, see http://www.uwnyc.org/saf/

Leicher, Susan. The Strategic Alliance Fund: Lessons Learned, Year Three. October 1999, 56 pp. For information on this report and/or the Strategic Alliance Fund, see http://www.uwnyc.org/saf/

McCambridge, Ruth and Mary Francis Weis. The Rush to Merge. Management Consulting Services, 1997.

The United Way of Greater Milwaukee, et. al. Nonprofit Collaboration and Mergers: Finding the Right Fit. Milwaukee: United Way of Greater Milwaukee, June 2005. http://www.lapiana.org/downloads/npCollaborationMergers.pdf

Wallis, Allan. The Challenge of Coordination in Human Service Networks. From the Nonprofit Sector Research Fund Working Paper Series, The Aspen Institute. Spring, 1994.

Williams, Caroline. Financing Techniques for Non-Profit Organizations: Borrowing from the For-Profit Sector. An essay prepared for Creative America, a report by the Presidentâs Committee on the Arts and the Humanities. Washington, D.C., 1998.