Nonprofits Family Health International and Academy for Educational Development Merge

One of the country’s largest charitable organizations is getting larger.

Research Triangle Park, N.C.-based Family Health International, a nonprofit organization that specializes in health care needs across the globe, is buying the Academy for Educational Development, a Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit that specializes in global education, health and economic development.

The nonprofits will merge and call RTP its global headquarters. In 2009, Forbes magazine called FHI among the top 200 U.S. charities with $369 million in revenue.