Partnerships & Mergers

Results for longevity, sustainability and community impact

Seeking a good strategic fit to strengthen your mission and financial performance? Our team has deep experience in nonprofit partnership development and full scale mergers. We have facilitated 32 structured partnerships, joint ventures and mergers, involving 77 discrete nonprofits, different legal and organizational structures, from all-volunteer organizations up to $50M+ agencies, and several within a regulated environment.

SERVICES

Glick Davis & Associates offers multiple solutions to support your organization’s partnership and merger needs. Many organizations come to our firm with a desire for greater organizational impact. We support you to identify different prospective partnership models, assess viability and financial benefits of partnership, including agreements to collaborate, joint ventures or formal partnerships at the program or organization level to full merger with another organization where viable and desirable.

Partnership Solutions

Examples of Glick Davis & Associates’ many partnership solutions include:

Development of shared services models,
Joint ventures for programs or capital facilities,
Cross-referral strategies, and
Coalition or association development.

Merger Solutions

Our firm provides full-service merger support. We provide:

Feasibility analysis, including of potential partners,
Support in negotiations, and
Guidance on organizational integration and capacity building for the future.

To learn more about whether a merger may be right for you, see our FAQ page.

What our clients are saying

Residence XII provided residential treatment for women with substance abuse problems for over 40 years. In our last few years, our annual budget deficit grew, putting our viability in jeopardy. When we found Jan Glick & Associates in 2018, we were in deep red ink. JGA guided our board and staff gracefully through a series of turnaround and merger options and decisions, supporting us at each, which eventually led to a terrific outcome. I can’t stress enough how traumatic this could have been for us and how JGA’s methodical and systematic help supported our options analysis in a positive way. Working with Tim Davis and Newport Academy, our mission and all of our services not only continued, but were expanded with Newport’s much greater capacity and size.

Makaylaa Powers

Board Chair Emeritus

Residence XII

Glick Davis & Associates guided and coached us through the processes of developing a letter of intent, structuring an agreement, and negotiating the details of an excellent agreement. We now have a legal affiliation with MultiCare Health System and are happily discovering how to be even better as a partnership than I had hoped could be possible. If you are considering a similar journey I highly recommend Glick & Associates as thoroughly professional, personable, experienced, resourceful and tactful experts to help you succeed.

David M. Johnson

CEO

NAVOS Mental Health Solutions

On behalf Seattle Colleges Board of Trustees, my staff, and all foundation volunteers, I want to thank Glick Davis & Associates for effective and professional assistance to our work of integrating our separate college philanthropic foundations into a single foundation over the past 12 months. The depth and breadth of your experience with non-profit mergers, your combined skills skills in bringing people together and threading difficult but candid conversations with diverse perspectives, and your styles have proven to be just what we needed for this work.

Shouan Pan

Ph.D. Chancellor

Seattle Colleges

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Jim Lombardo

Board Chair (Former)

Epilepsy Foundation Northwest

PARTNERSHIP & MERGER EXPERTISE

Unique in our expertise in nonprofit partnerships and mergers, our team applies methods derived from over 30 extensive partnership engagements to help you analyze, negotiate, navigate, close and launch a new partnership. Our consultants bring change management, financial analysis, legal, negotiation, and cultural facilitation skills to assure a successful partnership or merger.

How we work with you

Glick Davis & Associates has facilitated partnerships and mergers between two organizations and in several cases with multiple parties coming together as a single merged organization. We identify a scope of work that makes sense for your particular organizational needs with the expertise of our team to address relevant legal, financial, program, staffing and other questions as you consider merger solutions.

Types of merger and partnership engagements

Eastside Employment Services: Merged into Vadis
Family and Adult Service Center: Merged into Compass Housing Alliance
Greater Lakes Mental Health: Affiliated with Multi-Care Health System
National Renewable Energy Laboratories: Multi-office partnership within US Department of Energy
Navos Behavioral Health Solutions: Affiliated with Multi-Care Health System
Residence XII: Merged into Newport Academy
Seattle United: Merged select soccer programs of eight clubs within the Seattle Youth Soccer Association
Seattle Children’s Home: Merged into Navos Behavioral Health Solutions
Seattle Colleges Foundation: Merger of multiple college foundations into single foundation
Temple Beth Am: Acquisition of Stroum Jewish Community Center’s Seattle Early Childhood School
Vancouver United: Merged three soccer clubs into a larger and stronger united club
Washington Low Income Housing Alliance: Merged Washington Low Income Housing Congress and Network