Media Coverage
Source: Association TRENDS
Media Coverage
02.14.13
In this article, Jerald Jacobs, head of Pillsbury’s nonprofit organizations practice and based in Washington, DC, explored ten key questions for the leadership of each nonprofit organization to ask as merger discussions get under way.
"From all indications, nonprofit organizations continue to explore mergers with other nonprofits at a strong pace. But there were reports in 2012 of several attempted nonprofit mergers that, having been investigated to varying degrees, ultimately failed to result in combinations of the organizations,” Jacobs wrote. “But it may be that the ‘failure rate’ can be reduced, or at least the commitment of resources to pursue unlikely mergers could be lessened, if the chances of success were realistically assessed early in merger discussions."