Alice Korngold, President and CEO of Korngold Consulting LLC, provides board consulting services to global, national and regional nonprofits; trains and places business executives on NGO/nonprofit boards; and consults to global corporations on corporate social responsibility (CSR), for-profit/nonprofit partnerships and strategic philanthropy. She is the author of “Leveraging Good Will: Strengthening Nonprofits by Engaging Businesses” (Jossey-Bass, A Wiley Imprint, 2005) and is currently writing a second book. She blogs for Fast Company and The Huffington Post. She has launched a unique board assessment toolkit, the Korngold Board Vector. Follow Korngold on Twitter:@alicekorngold.
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I read CausePlanet.org’s book reviews and articles on a regular basis for their wisdom and to follow the conversation. In preparing to write this post, I perused many recent pieces for inspiration. Brilliant stuff…. if perhaps a bit head-spinning for most nonprofit CEOs when taken in
