Mergers

Mergers and collaboration are increasingly common as charity and social enterprise leaders innovate and respond to the current environment. Eastside is developing a resource below for all those interested in mergers and collaboration in civil society.

The Good Merger Guide, written by Richard Gutch and published by Eastside in collaboration with recruitment specialists, Prospectus. [October 2012]

Recent mergers:

 

 Further resources, articles & papers:

  • For further mergers in the UK see here.
  • For more detailed information about the topic see our merger fact sheet.
  • An interesting talk around 'strategic restructuring' in the US. Puts forward the idea that there aren't necessarily too many charities (1.4m in the US) but too many reliant on grant funding, something we've been talking about at Eastside for a while.

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