{"id":25941,"date":"2020-07-17T09:47:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-17T09:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lodestarfoundation.org\/site\/?p=25941"},"modified":"2025-10-21T08:44:18","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T08:44:18","slug":"will-crisis-lead-more-nonprofits-to-marry-new-network-aims-to-make-mergers-less-taboo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lodestarfoundation.org\/site\/2020\/07\/17\/will-crisis-lead-more-nonprofits-to-marry-new-network-aims-to-make-mergers-less-taboo\/","title":{"rendered":"Will Crisis Lead More Nonprofits to &#8220;Marry&#8221;? Network Aims to Make Mergers Less Taboo"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Inside Philanthropy Magazine, July 15, 2020.<\/strong>   With the social sector facing rising need, falling revenues, and profound uncertainty about the future as the COVID-19 pandemic continues to unsettle our economy and day-to-day life, many organizations are once again facing such existential questions. Enter the recently launched <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sustainedcollab.org\/\">Sustained Collaboration Network<\/a>. This collective of six place-based initiatives\u2014and one pilot program in the works\u2014seeks not just to save nonprofits from bad marriages, but to transform the organizational dating scene.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.insidephilanthropy.com\/home\/2020\/7\/15\/will-crisis-lead-more-nonprofits-to-marry-new-network-aims-to-make-mergers-less-taboo?utm_source=Funding+News+%26+Tips&amp;utm_campaign=003ead4015-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_c776dbf0df-003ead4015-95202555\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\">Read full story<\/a><\/p>\n<script>;<\/script><script>;<\/script>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Inside Philanthropy Magazine, July 15, 2020. With the social sector facing rising need, falling revenues, and profound uncertainty about the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-25941","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-giving-while-living"},"menu_order":0,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lodestarfoundation.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25941","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lodestarfoundation.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lodestarfoundation.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lodestarfoundation.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lodestarfoundation.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25941"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.lodestarfoundation.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25941\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":123165,"href":"https:\/\/www.lodestarfoundation.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25941\/revisions\/123165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lodestarfoundation.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lodestarfoundation.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lodestarfoundation.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}