United Way of the Midlands

Strategic Restructuring Workshop

Strategic Restructuring for Nonprofit Organizations: Robert (Bob) Harrington of La Piana Consulting was held at  Colonial Life on Feburary 4, 2010.  The workship described various partnership options available to nonprofits including mergers, joint programming, administrative consolidation, and management service organizations. Bob presented the findings of a landmark study on mergers and alliances in the United States, as well as findings from The Collaboration Prize nominations. The prize was created by the Lodestar Foundation as a project to share effective nonprofit best practice models. He discussed the benefits and challenges of restructuring, as well as the process of assessment, negotiations, and implementation/integration.

Separate sessions were held.   The morning workshop presented information for nonprofit organization management.  The afternoon workship focused the information toward consultants who are working with nonprofit agences.  The powerpoint presentations are available for download.  

For more information contact Jennifer Moore at 803.733.5421 or jmoore@uway.org.

Workshop Leader

Robert (Bob) Harrington, Director, Strategic Restructuring Practice
Bob Harrington, MSW/LCSW, directs La Piana’s practice in strategic restructuring. He provided consulting services to the nonprofit sector for more than ten years, drawing on his extensive nonprofit management experience to assist nonprofits with strategic restructuring (partnerships between nonprofits, such as mergers, joint ventures, and administrative consolidations), strategic planning, executive/board relations, transition management, human resource issues, program planning and development, nonprofit incorporation, and collaborations including public/private partnerships.