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    <title>Mission + Strategy = Social Value</title>
    
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    <updated>2009-12-31T10:01:22-06:00</updated>
    <subtitle>ideas for increasing the impact of nonprofits through values-driven mergers, partnerships, and management

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        <published>2009-12-31T10:01:22-06:00</published>
        <updated>2009-12-31T10:01:22-06:00</updated>
        
        <author>
            <name>Jean Butzen</name>
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    <content type="html">New Strategic Re-Structuring Training Coming: An expanded four-hour session on nonprofit strategic re-structuring - at the Donors Forum, Tues., Jan. 26th, 8:30 to 12:30. To sign-up go to: https://s07.123signup.com/servlet/SignUp?PG=1532164182300&amp;P=153216400 .&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
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    <entry>
        <title>News Round-Up: Merger Stories from around the Nation: Fall 2009</title>
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        <published>2009-11-28T08:57:44-06:00</published>
        <updated>2009-11-28T08:55:45-06:00</updated>
        
        <author>
            <name>Jean Butzen</name>
        </author>
        <category scheme="http://www.sixapart.com/ns/types#category" term="Nonprofit Mergers" />
        
        <category scheme="http://sixapart.com/ns/types#tag" term="Girl Scouts" />
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        <category scheme="http://sixapart.com/ns/types#tag" term="Red Cross" />
        <category scheme="http://sixapart.com/ns/types#tag" term="United Way" />
        


    <content type="html">Here are the stories on nonprofit mergers that made it into my Google in-box over the fall. I don't include stories about hospital mergers, (almost) no blog postings, and no links to marketing materials. I look for journalistic sources. Enjoy!...&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
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    <entry>
        <title>Federal Bailout Spending Creates Re-Structuring Opportunities</title>
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        <published>2009-11-19T20:07:49-06:00</published>
        <updated>2009-11-19T20:07:49-06:00</updated>
        
        <author>
            <name>Jean Butzen</name>
        </author>
        
        <category scheme="http://sixapart.com/ns/types#tag" term="American Recovery Act" />
        <category scheme="http://sixapart.com/ns/types#tag" term="Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning" />
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        <category scheme="http://sixapart.com/ns/types#tag" term="nonprofit collaboration" />
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    <content type="html">Northern Illinois regional planning organization leads the way in restructuring services through the American Recovery act.&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
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        <published>2009-11-19T19:22:06-06:00</published>
        <updated>2009-11-19T19:22:06-06:00</updated>
        
        <author>
            <name>Jean Butzen</name>
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    <content type="html">My clients the Badger Association of the Blind &amp; Visually Impaired, and the Center for Blind &amp; Visually Impaired Children just voted to merge this week. Congratulations to them both!&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
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        <title>Nonprofit Mergers: New Donor Quality Metric? No. Carolina Story May Indicate So</title>
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        <id>tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00e54ee6090b88330120a5a69647970b</id>
        <published>2009-09-28T21:20:16-05:00</published>
        <updated>2009-09-28T21:20:16-05:00</updated>
        
        <author>
            <name>Jean Butzen</name>
        </author>
        <category scheme="http://www.sixapart.com/ns/types#category" term="Foundations and Collaborations" />
        
        <category scheme="http://sixapart.com/ns/types#tag" term="Charlotte Observer" />
        <category scheme="http://sixapart.com/ns/types#tag" term="Foundation for the Carolinas" />
        <category scheme="http://sixapart.com/ns/types#tag" term="Jean Butzen" />
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        <category scheme="http://sixapart.com/ns/types#tag" term="United Way of Central Carolinas" />
        


    <content type="html">A very interesting story popped up in my Google search engine dated Sept. 28, 2009 from the Charlotte Observer. A county commission of very prestigious government and foundation institutions including the United Way of Central Carolinas and the Foundation for...&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
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    <entry>
        <title>News Round-Up on Nonprofit Strategic Re-Structuring from Summer 2009</title>
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        <id>tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00e54ee6090b88330120a572f2fa970b</id>
        <published>2009-09-15T21:35:45-05:00</published>
        <updated>2009-09-15T21:35:45-05:00</updated>
        
        <author>
            <name>Jean Butzen</name>
        </author>
        <category scheme="http://www.sixapart.com/ns/types#category" term="In the News/On the Web" />
        
        


    <content type="html">Here are the news and other stories about nonprofit collaborations, mostly mergers, that I pulled off the Internet from all over the country. Merging Administrative Functions, posted on the site: Butts in the Seats, Musings on Practical Solutions for Arts...&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/MissionStrategySocialValue/~4/_Xrj43k4SzI" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><feedburner:origLink>http://www.MISSIONPLUSSTRATEGY.COM/2009/09/news-roundup-on-nonprofit-strategic-restructuring-from-summer-2009.html</feedburner:origLink></entry>
    <entry>
        <title>Crain's Chicago Business: Nonprofit Mergers - Not Happening That Much</title>
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        <id>tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00e54ee6090b88330120a51bea6e970b</id>
        <published>2009-08-25T10:57:19-05:00</published>
        <updated>2009-08-25T10:57:19-05:00</updated>
        
        <author>
            <name>Jean Butzen</name>
        </author>
        
        <category scheme="http://sixapart.com/ns/types#tag" term="Chicago Community Trust" />
        <category scheme="http://sixapart.com/ns/types#tag" term="Crain's Chicago Business" />
        


    <content type="html">The topic of nonprofit mergers, and whether or not they are happening to the degree they have predicted in the sector, was discussed in an article in Crain's Chicago Business in the Aug. 24th issue. Yours truly weighed in saying...&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/MissionStrategySocialValue/~4/vn63S_cqtuY" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><feedburner:origLink>http://www.MISSIONPLUSSTRATEGY.COM/2009/08/crains-chicago-business-nonprofit-mergers-not-happening-that-much.html</feedburner:origLink></entry>
    <entry>
        <title>How to Legally Dissolve a Nonprofit</title>
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        <published>2009-08-20T15:40:45-05:00</published>
        <updated>2009-08-21T10:13:46-05:00</updated>
        
        <author>
            <name>Jean Butzen</name>
        </author>
        <category scheme="http://www.sixapart.com/ns/types#category" term="Dissolving a nonprofit" />
        
        <category scheme="http://sixapart.com/ns/types#tag" term="Don Griesman's Nonprofit Blog" />
        


    <content type="html">Occasionally I get a phone call from people wondering what the process is for shutting down a nonprofit. Believe it or not, there are forms you need to fill out with the IRS and your state to dissolve a nonprofit...&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
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    <entry>
        <title>"Round-Up of the Week's News on Nonprofit Collaborations"</title>
        <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/MissionStrategySocialValue/~3/c4dfYKwGZ7I/roundup-of-the-weeks-news-on-nonprofit-collaborations.html" />
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        <id>tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00e54ee6090b8833011572205369970b</id>
        <published>2009-07-21T15:47:32-05:00</published>
        <updated>2009-07-21T15:47:32-05:00</updated>
        
        <author>
            <name>Jean Butzen</name>
        </author>
        <category scheme="http://www.sixapart.com/ns/types#category" term="In the News/On the Web" />
        
        <category scheme="http://sixapart.com/ns/types#tag" term="Minn.Post.com; COMPAS" />
        <category scheme="http://sixapart.com/ns/types#tag" term="Young Audiences of Minnesota; Arabella Philanthropic Advisers; ACHIEVA; Arc of Westmoreland County; Pittsburg Business Times; Seacoastonline.com; Seacoast Visiting Nurse Association; Home Health VNA; The Business Review; Literacy Volunteers of America/Mohawk/Hudson; Literacy NENY; News &amp; Advance; Boston Herald; Boston Foundation; New Lands Jobs; Lynchberg Community Action Group; StarTribune.com; " />
        


    <content type="html">At the suggestion of a fellow blogger and friend, Celeste Wroblewski at studio 501c, I am going to add a new feature to my site: a news round-up. Every day google alert sends me news stories about nonprofit mergers, partnerships,...&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
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    <entry>
        <title>Learning from the Nonprofit Merger Trail Blazers: An Interview with Debbie Hinde, CEO of Vital Bridges</title>
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        <published>2009-07-14T13:15:08-05:00</published>
        <updated>2009-07-14T13:15:08-05:00</updated>
        
        <author>
            <name>Jean Butzen</name>
        </author>
        <category scheme="http://www.sixapart.com/ns/types#category" term="Merger Process" />
        
        <category scheme="http://sixapart.com/ns/types#tag" term="Bridgespan" />
        <category scheme="http://sixapart.com/ns/types#tag" term="Chronicle of Philanthropy" />
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        <category scheme="http://sixapart.com/ns/types#tag" term="Vital Bridges" />
        


    <content type="html">As I introduce people to the concept of nonprofit mergers and collaborations, it's hard to remember that for some people, these concepts have been around a long time. Take Debbie Hinde and Vital Bridges in Chicago, Illinois, for example. I...&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
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