ACCE Merger & Partnership Toolkit

ACCE’s Merger and Partnership Toolkit is a practical guide built specifically for chamber leaders. It covers every phase of a merger with real insights from chambers who have done it. If you are exploring, negotiating or executing a merger, this is your reference.

The toolkit includes practical tools and case studies as it explores chamber mergers through four phases:

• Assessment: Evaluating your strategic rationale, assessing organizational readiness and determining whether a merger is the right tool for what you are trying to accomplish
• Case Making: Stakeholder mapping, board and member engagement, communication planning and a practical guide to handling opposition.
• Implementation: Structures, due diligence, advisory team selection, the letter of intent, regulatory requirements and realistic timeline planning
• Integration: Governance design, staff integration, culture alignment, technology migration, brand decisions, revenue model design and member retention