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The Volunteer
Consulting Group is a nonprofit organization-founded in 1969 by the
Harvard Business School Club of Greater New York--dedicated to strengthening
the governing and management capability of nonprofit boards of directors.
VCG consults to boards on organizational and operational issues: structure,
leadership succession and effective governance and oversight. Also,
many boards do not understand their governance responsibility and
seek help in determining what is proper oversight vs. micro-management.
VCG also recruits trustees-our "High-Touch" work assists
boards in defining their board recruitment objectives. We then conduct
a targeted search for business, professional and community leaders
with the desired expertise, diversity of perspective and resources.
We also provide guidance in the orientation needed to transform new
recruits into functioning board members. VCG is the creator and sponsor
of www.boardnetUSA.org, a free, interactive site: (1) Transforming
the way new leaders are identified and guided into nonprofit board
service; and (2) Fostering a more open and democratic way for nonprofit
boards to fill their diverse leadership needs across boundaries of
ethnicity, skill, geography and age--enabling potential board members-and
nonprofit boards needing leadership-to learn about and connect with
each other.
Highlights
of the past fiscal year include:
--12 organizations received Board Consulting assistance.
--32 people were elected to boards via our "High-Touch"
Recruiting services.
--boardnetUSA
grew to include: (A) As of April 30, 2005, boardnetUSA had 16,398
registered and 7,192 engaged candidates and 4,197 registered/1,876
engaged nonprofit boards. 241 board elections were documented for
the year with 42 additional elections to committees and Advisory
Boards (not the full board). (Total board elections since the site
launched in the Fall of 2002 is 602). The cumulative percentage
of elections that are minority is 32% (up from 30%) and those elected
under the age of 40 grew from 39% to 54%; (B) 10 Community Partners:
Ann Arbor, MI - BoardConnect - Nonprofit Enterprise At Work; Atlanta,
GA - Georgia Center for Nonprofits; Boston, MA - BridgeStar/BridgeSpan
Group; Erie, PA - Erie Community Foundation; Indianapolis, IN -
Center on Philanthropy at Indiana University; Pittsburgh, PA - Bayer
Center for Nonprofit Management; Sacramento, CA - Boardlink At The
Nonprofit Resource Center; Tri-State Area (NY/NJ/CT) - Volunteer
Consulting Group/ Volunteer Centers of Morris and Bergen Counties
and the David Rockefeller Fellows Program; and Washington, DC -
IKNOW Foundation/Raffa & Associates; (D) 23 Candidate Sponsoring
Partners (Booz Allen Hamilton, Career Journal, Cisco, Citigroup,
Computer Associates, Deloitte Consulting, Diversity Pipeline Alliance,
Ernst & Young, Goldman Sachs, Hispanic Federation, JP Morgan
Chase, Leadership Education For Asian Pacifics, Lehman Brothers;
McGraw Hill Companies, McKinsey & Co., Moody's, Morgan Stanley,
National Black United Fund, NYU Stern School of Business, Sponsors
for Educational Opportunity, U.S. Trust, Verizon and Wells Fargo;
and (E) 3 National Nonprofit Partners (Girl Scouts, Points of Light
Foundation & USA Freedom Corps).
The
following is an overview of VCG's income and expenses for the fiscal
year ended April 30, 2005:
Total Support & Revenue: $923,703
Program Expenses: $777,773
Management & General Expenses: $143,188
Fundraising Expenses: $ 43,120
Fund Balance (new assets): $746,536
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