AIDS Action Committee & Fenway Health: A New Vision for HIV/AIDS Services and Advocacy

Three mission-driven rationales can guide successful nonprofit mergers: an aim to grow scale (e.g. broaden reach), to increase scope (e.g. broaden services), or to streamline operations (e.g. increase efficiencies). Each comes with its own set of challenges and lines can blur among them. The merger of AIDS Action Committee and Fenway Health illustrates how a merger of like-minded organizations with different programmatic approaches was driven by all three rationales.