Mergers Announced by Charities

April 4, 2010 | Read Time: 2 minutes

AIDS Action Committee of Massachusetts, in Boston, plans to merge with Cambridge Cares About AIDS, also in Massachusetts.

Chicago Association for Retarded Children and Clearbrook, a human-services organization in Arlington Heights, Ill., plan to merge.

Child & Family Service, in Ewa Beach, Hawaii, and Hawaii International Child, in Honolulu, have merged.

Community Auto, a Wexford, Pa., volunteer organization that repairs donated cars and sells them to low-income people, has merged with North Hills Community Outreach, a human-services group in Allison Park, Pa., and become a division of North Hills.

Community Foundation of Southeastern Connecticut, in New London, has merged with the Community Foundation of the Tri-County Area, in Willimantic, Conn.

Family Eldercare and Meals on Wheels and More, both in Austin, Tex., plan to merge.

Friends Against Abuse, a domestic-violence group, and the Sunrise Center Against Sexual Abuse, both in International Falls, Minn., plan to merge.

Heritage United Way, in Manchester, N.H.; North Country United Way, in Littleton, N.H.; and United Way Merrimack County, in Concord, N.H., plan to merge into a single United Way organization.

Jacob Wetterling Resource Center, a child-protection group in St. Paul, and the National Child Protection Training Center, in Winona, Minn., have merged.

Mission Mill Museum and the Marion County Historical Society, both in Salem, Ore., have merged to form the Willamette Heritage Center.

Newburyport Education Business Coalition and the Newburyport Education Foundation, both in Massachusetts, have merged. Both groups help businesses get involved in helping local schools.

New Observations, the nonprofit publisher of New Observations magazine, in New York, has been acquired by Artist Organized Art, a Hatfield, Mass., arts organization.

North Olympic Land Trust, a conservation organization in Port Angeles, Wash., and Friends of the Fields, a Carlsborg, Wash., farmland-protection and sustainable-agriculture group, plan to merge.

University Medical Center and University Physicians Healthcare, both in Tucson, Ariz., plan to merge. The two groups are associated with the University of Arizona.