Merger Faciliation
Riveon Mental Health & Recovery
Riveon Mental Health & Recovery (Riveon) formerly The Nord Center and The LCADA Way is a transformative force in Lorain County and beyond providing comprehensive health services. During a comprehensive process, SDP partnered with The Nord Center and LCADA Way’s boards to explore all aspects of the individual organizations and build towards a cohesive vision of what a merged entity could do to better serve the community. Following a 12-month process, both boards unanimously agreed to merge the organizations to form Riveon.
LAND Studio
(Merger of Cleveland Public Art + ParkWorks)
Our first client was ParkWorks, an organization that had evolved over three decades to become Cleveland’s go-to professionals for public space design, management, and activation. Along the way, they found a perfect partner in another unique organization, Cleveland Public Art (CPA), that infused public spaces with artistic imagination and creativity. Together, and with many partners, they had been reimagining and redefining Cleveland’s public spaces.
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SDP was asked to facilitate a merger exploration between ParkWorks and CPA. In addition to framing the process and establishing the project management schedule, SDP managed five committees composed of members of each organization’s trustees: Vision, Governance, Program/HR, Budget, and Marketing/Fundraising.
Approximately six months later, SDP produced a final executive summary and report that captured the process and outcomes from each of these committees and laid out the rationale, foundation, and operational structure for a new, unified organization: LAND studio.