A Primer on Nonprofit Mergers & Sustained Collaborations

SeaChange has published a new report, A Primer on Nonprofit Mergers & Sustained Collaborations, detailing learnings from NYMAC’s work funding nonprofit collaborations since its founding in 2012.

Nonprofit Mergers and Acquisitions: Not Just an Escape Plan

We were please to see SeaChange listed as a resource for nonprofits embarking on an M&A process in this article from the Stanford Social Innovation Review by Christie George and Taren Stinebrickner-Kauffman of New Media Ventures. The article aims to “reframe M&A in the nonprofit sector as a…

Project Highlights | Bushwick Starr & GJDC

It was great to see two exciting projects supported by SeaChange and its affiliated loan funds mentioned in the news this month: 1. The Bushwick Starr (“Starr”) | The Starr has acquired a new permanent home for its theater and community arts program, which is expected to open…

A Call for Contract Justice

While there is a lot of posturing about racial and social justice, real progress often requires concrete changes in the machinery of government in small but important ways that inure to the benefit of our most vulnerable citizens and those that serve them. It can be easy to…

The Consequence of Payment Delays

Never have so many organizations brought to the brink of financial calamity by delays in contract registration and payment by New York City and State. Outrageous delays that are seldom reported since the nonprofits fear that going public would only make things worse. (And who would they complain…

Sometimes a Lender or a Borrower Be: The Dos and Don’ts of PRIs

In this new article—Sometimes a Lender or a Borrower Be: The Dos and Don’ts of PRIs—SeaChange and the Brooklyn Community Bail Fund discuss their experience working together as a lender and a borrower, and the lessons they learned that might be relevant to others.

The Transformational Partnerships Fund for Higher Education

SeaChange is please to announce the launch of the Transformational Partnerships Fund (TPF). The new fund will provide colleges and universities support to explore student-centric partnerships and collaborations that could meaningfully transform how they operate and enhance their ability to provide reliable, high-quality educational opportunities for students. TPF…

Not More, Better: Reframing the Problematic Dynamics of Government Funding

In this new article—Not More, Better: Reframing the Problematic Dynamics of Government Funding—we describe how the problematic dynamic between nonprofits and government might be reframed to mutual advantage in the wake of COVID.

Economic Possibilities for Nonprofits

While many parts of the economy have been transformed, the nonprofit world has not yet experienced profound impacts from technology. Outsourcing, offshoring, the replacement of people by technology, and widespread technological unemployment have been rare. Most nonprofits operate largely the way they did 30 years ago, albeit with…

Webinar – Launching Sustained Collaborations and Mergers

John MacIntosh, Managing Partner, served as a panelist on Combined Jewish Philanthropies’ “Launching Sustained Collaborations and Mergers” webinar on October 20, 2020. Watch a recording of the webinar here. In the face of recovery, when nonprofits will be called on to do more — likely with fewer resources…