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Leveraging Good Will: Strengthening Nonprofits by Engaging Businesses by Alice Korngold The time is ripe for nonprofits to reinvent and re-examine their partnerships with businesses. Korngold gives nonprofits step-by-step guidelines on how to leverage the vast resources businesses can bring to their organizations to increase their effectiveness. The nonprofit sector has been rocked by scandals and controversies, particularly surrounding giving after 9/11, from which it has never fully recovered. The press and public sector have raised doubts about nonprofit accountability, which forces nonprofits to focus more on governance and to seek board members who are serious about how the nonprofit accomplishes its mission. |
About the Author
Alice Korngold is a national consultant who has worked with hundreds of businesses and nonprofit organizations. She is the former chief founding executive, president and CEO of Business Volunteers Unlimited (BVU), a national program that trains and places business professionals and executives on nonprofit boards of directors. Previously, Alice developed the Health Trustee Institute for hospital governing boards in Northeast Ohio and, prior to that, the cooperative education program on three campuses of Pace University in New York. She was recognized by The Nonprofit Times as one of the Power and Influence Top 50 in 2000, 2001, 2003, and 2004. She has a B.A. cum laude and an M.S.Ed. from the University of Pennsylvania and lives in New York City.