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Nonprofit Mergers, Acquisitions, and Affiliations

Due diligence can uncover unknown information, so thorough due diligence is important regardless of the transacting parties’ relationship, goodwill, or trust.
Nonprofit Mergers, Acquisitions, and Affiliations

The Critical Role of Due Diligence

Due diligence can uncover unknown information, so thorough due diligence is important regardless of the transacting parties’ relationship, goodwill, or trust.

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Nonprofit Affiliations
Nonprofit Mergers, Acquisitions, and Affiliations

Nonprofit Affiliation

Nonprofit affiliation should always be considered before a decision to dissolve. Nonprofits considering dissolution are thinking creatively and working to survive some of the toughest

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Nonprofit Mergers, Acquisitions, and Affiliations

What is a Trademark?

A trademark is a protection of a good or service that is unique to your nonprofit. It can be a word, phrase, slogan, symbol, design,

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nonprofit affiliates
Nonprofit Mergers, Acquisitions, and Affiliations

Nonprofit Affiliates: Common Issues and Best Practices

To reap the tax-advantaged and protective benefits of conducting business through multiple entities, organizations must take care to respect the formalities of the arrangement. This includes remaining independent and dealing with each other at arm’s length, having separate board meetings, implementing conflict of interest policies, documenting transactions between the entities, and ensuring fair market value payment for any benefits received by affiliates.

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When the Going Gets Tough – Collaborate

We all know that 2020 has been a brutal year for nonprofits. Unfortunately, we are starting to see more nonprofits struggle with sustainability. We have helped many organizations wind-down their operations over the years, and in most cases, there have been one or more core programs that could be salvaged. In many cases, a joint partner allowed the charity to continue its most viable programs in one form or another.

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Is Your Nonprofit Considering a Strategic Restructuring?

We’ll spare you the pandemic intro; we know that nonprofits are acutely feeling the effects of the current financial crisis.  And uncertainty about COVID-19 virology and what a new normal might look like is frustratingly confounding. But now is not the time for magical thinking, according to a panel of experts recently convened by BoardSource.  We participated in their webcast to learn more about how nonprofits can best navigate the hard decisions ahead.

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Nonprofit Chapter Consolidation
Nonprofit Mergers, Acquisitions, and Affiliations

Nonprofit Chapter Consolidation

We have written about how to form chapters and affiliates, but sometimes nonprofits ultimately decide they have created too many affiliates, or that their affiliates

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Asset Purchase vs Merger
Nonprofit Mergers, Acquisitions, and Affiliations

Nonprofit Asset Purchase vs Merger – Which Makes Sense for You?

When considering acquiring another nonprofit, there are two types of acquisitions that are typically considered “ an asset purchase and a merger transaction. Several factors, including due diligence, payment of consideration, assumption of liability, assignment of contracts (including endowment agreements), existence of planned gifts, future operating goals and applicable state and federal laws, should be considered in determining the structure of the potential transaction.

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Nonprofits Moving to a New State
Governance

Good News for Nonprofits Moving to a New State

The IRS recently issued a favorable ruling for nonprofits looking to move their domicile from one state to another. Common reasons that nonprofits seek to change their state of incorporationinclude a change in physical location, increasing regulatory burdens, or a lack of meaningful connection to the original state of incorporation. In such cases,

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