Coordinating operations in a multi-foundation health care system.

When Sid Mallory took the helm in 2005 as executive vice president for philanthropy at Allina Hospitals & Clinics, he immediately recognized a key challenge. Although fundraising across the 11-hospital system was solid, there were substantive differences in strategies, reporting and day-to-day operations that were making it difficult to leverage best practices and individual foundation successes within the system as a whole. With ambitious fundraising goals set for the next several years, Mallory knew that change was needed, and soon.