Q-and-A With Peter Wilderotter, president and CEO, Christopher & Dana Reeve Foundation

FS: What are some of the challenges of a merger like this? What are the benefits?
PW: The challenge is that the devil is in the details. The IRS rules make it cumbersome and difficult, bringing the donors along, working through institutional cultures and histories. The benefits are less duplication, strength in numbers and potential reach — messages to similar sized organizations.