La Piana Associates

DAVID LA PIANA is the founder of La Piana Associates, a national consulting firm specializing in strategy, mergers, and strategic restructuring for nonprofit organizations. He coined the term "strategic restructuring" to describe the continuum of mergers, joint ventures, and consolidations nonprofits use to address challenges. His recent books include The Nonprofit Strategy Revolution, Play to Win: The Nonprofit Guide to Competitive Strategy and Beyond Collaboration.

La Piana has received awards from the California State Assembly and Oakland Mayor Elihu Harris. He holds a Master of Public Administration in nonprofit management from the University of San Francisco’s Institute for Nonprofit Organization Management.

When not writing, La Piana teaches graduate-level courses at the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley, and at the University of San Francisco’s Institute for Nonprofit Organization Management. His work centers on partnerships and competitive strategy for nonprofits.

La Piana Associates’s books are published by Fieldstone Alliance, an imprint of Turner Publishing.

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