| Shotgun Weddings: Evaluating Funder-driven Nonprofit Mergers and Acquisitions |
| State and local funding constraints are driving a new round of funder driven merger and take-over efforts based on assumptions that increased size (coming to scale) equals increased stability and management capacity. Explore models to test assumptions and project the immediate and longer term financial impact of merger and expansion through program acquisition. |

Shotgun Weddings: Evaluating Funder-driven Nonprofit Mergers and Acquisitions