Businesses can provide extraordinary resources to nonprofits as they struggle with todays strategic and financial challenges and opportunities; businesses and their executives offer valuable expertise, experience, relationships and funding to elevate and advance nonprofit organizations. Author Alice Korngold has been training and matching business professionals with nonprofits for over a decade. In this book, she shares vital information with nonprofits, giving them insider advice on how to attract business resources that will help nonprofits to survive and thrive. Korngold tells the stories of nonprofits that have successfully transformed their organizations through partnerships with businesses and helps readers make the connections that will give them: more money expertise and know how in strategic planning, financial management, and other key areas free training in vital skills stronger governance Korngold shows nonprofit leaders how to leverage what they have to offer businessessincluding increased visibility and goodwill in the community, enhanced credibility and corporate image, leadership development, and team-buildingto make themselves attractive to for-profits. She then helps readers create a plan, based on her proven-in-practice techniques, for making the most effective use of for-profit resources. Readers will gain a competitive advantage and the resources, tools and knowledge they need to suceed.
Book Details:
- Author: Alice Korngold
- ISBN: 9780470243985
- Year Published: 2005
- Pages: 240
- BISAC: BUS074000, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS/Nonprofit Organizations & Charities
About the Book and Topic:
Businesses can provide extraordinary resources to nonprofits as they struggle with todays strategic and financial challenges and opportunities; businesses and their executives offer valuable expertise, experience, relationships and funding to elevate and advance nonprofit organizations. Author Alice Korngold has been training and matching business professionals with nonprofits for over a decade. In this book, she shares vital information with nonprofits, giving them insider advice on how to attract business resources that will help nonprofits to survive and thrive. Korngold tells the stories of nonprofits that have successfully transformed their organizations through partnerships with businesses and helps readers make the connections that will give them: more money expertise and know how in strategic planning, financial management, and other key areas free training in vital skills stronger governance Korngold shows nonprofit leaders how to leverage what they have to offer businessessincluding increased visibility and goodwill in the community, enhanced credibility and corporate image, leadership development, and team-buildingto make themselves attractive to for-profits. She then helps readers create a plan, based on her proven-in-practice techniques, for making the most effective use of for-profit resources. Readers will gain a competitive advantage and the resources, tools and knowledge they need to suceed.
Nonprofits can have huge success if they capitalize on the talents of businesspeople and on the goodwill and needs of the business community. This book shows them how. There are books on cause marketing, volunteer management, board leadership and corporate fundraising. This is the first book to take a broad approach to explore how nonprofits can leverage the resources of the private sector to get more money, contacts, and skills. Korngold provides an innovative roadmap for nonprofit organizations to strengthen governance and improve organizational effectiveness by taking advantage of what the business community has to offer.
Exceptional professional platform: Korngold consults and speaks nationally and is recognized as a leader in bringing businesses and nonprofits together to enhance success. National Support: Korngold’s program has been featured in the Wall Street Journal and the White House is addressing business leaders to encourage the national replication of BVUs work. Advice on how to get money, make connections and learn vital skills Korngold gives readers specific advice on how to get at what the business community has to offer.
About the Author
Alice Korngold is the President and Chief Executive Officer and was the founding chief executive of Business Volunteers Unlimited. Ms. Korngold is a national consultant, speaker and author in the areas of corporate community involvement and the governance of nonprofit organizations. She makes presentations at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the Independent Sector, The Center for Corporate Citizenship at Boston College, The Conference Board, the Council on Foundations, BoardSource, and the Points of Light Foundation. She is a regular columnist for Nonprofit Times. Business Volunteers Unlimited (BVU) is a national model organization that strengthens nonprofits by involving thousands of volunteers from the community; engaging hundreds of business executives and professionals on nonprofit boards of directors and in other capacities. It provides leading-edge board and management consulting and training services to over 400 nonprofits annually and assists over 100 corporate clients annually in developing and implementing strategies for community involvement. It has been d honored by John Bridgeland, director of USA Freedom Corps and Bush?s top aide on volunteerism and featured in a front page article in the Wall Street Journal. It is located in Cleveland, OH.