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“The active role of funders in organizational restructuring and consolidation is becoming a more common area of study, because more funders — private and government funders alike — are moving in the direction of encouraging funded agencies to explore new strategies such as mergers and integrations. This research focuses on funder-initiated nonprofit integration and explores the challenges and strategies demonstrated by a government grantor and nine funded agencies as they planned and developed a management service organization. This was an action research study, whereby all parties participated as co-researchers to examine the integration challenges and the partnership strategies used to move the integration process forward.”