The Lansing-based Michigan Nonprofit Association received a $25,000 grant from the DTE Energy Foundation to help other nonprofits with mergers, alignments and organizational issues.
“In the face of every tightening budget and the rapid growth of nonprofits, these types of alignments are even more important,” says Michigan Nonprofit Associatio's President and CEO, Kyle Caldwell.
Caldwell says when nonprofits merge, they frequently can’t figure out how to transfer organizational roles.
“It’s hard work,” Caldwell says about merging nonprofits. “It’s always difficult to merge, not just the operational part of two organizations, but the cultures. It’s the cultures that take up the most amount of energy. You can put governance policies in place, but really, culture takes a lot of time and a lot of effort and continuing attention.”
The Michigan Nonprofit Association is one of 10 nonprofits that received the DTE Energy Foundation’s 2008 Achieving Excellent Award.
"The DTE Energy Foundation believes that nonprofit organizations that strive to maximize their time, money and efforts should receive praise, gratitude and support. That is why we created the Achieving Excellence Awards in 2003 and have presented more than a million dollars toward recipients since then," says Fred Shell, DTE Energy Foundation president.
Source: Kyle Caldwell, Michigan Nonprofit Association
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