LEVERAGING GOOD WILL:
Strengthening Nonprofits by Engaging Businesses
(Jossey-Bass, An Imprint of Wiley, May 2005)
by Alice Korngold

Discover the Leadership Value of Nonprofit Board Service

Thousands of business executives serve on boards of nonprofit organizations around the globe. Although they give of their time and energy – are they really making the most of this opportunity? Are they creating the best value for the nonprofit they serve, the corporation they represent, and the community?

In Leveraging Good Will, Alice Korngold shows how businesses can develop tomorrow’s leaders by having their executives properly matched, trained, and coached for board service. The win for businesses: The company makes a truly meaningful contribution, while their executives engage in vital leadership skills, such as visioning, thinking strategically, persuading, advocating, building consensus, negotiating, inspiring, and mentoring.

Korngold also shows nonprofits how to attract the most talented business people to their boards, and then focus their attention on key strategic and financial issues. The win for nonprofits: higher functioning boards that will elevate organizations to their greater vision and potential.

The global win: a far more vital nonprofit sector that provides essential health and human services, education and cultural enrichment for millions of people of all ages and backgrounds. The win for individuals: personal development and satisfaction.
Korngold is a consultant to corporations and nonprofit boards. She has trained and placed over 1,000 business executives on 275 nonprofit boards.

Reviews:

"Korngold's LEVERAGING GOOD WILL is a must-read for any business seeking to engage their executives on nonprofit boards in order to develop leadership and strengthen communities. Her innovative and visionary consulting work with leading corporations and service firms has made her an expert with unique insight into the challenges of both for-profit and nonprofit organizations in today's business environment." - Thomas E. Meador, CEO, American Express Tax & Business Services

“Korngold's LEVERAGING GOOD WILL is a superb resource for any business that wants to enlist its workforce in improving our communities and country -- and to align its financial success with its civic engagement." - John Bridgeland, CEO, Civic Enterprises, and Former Assistant to the President of the United States

"Practical, how-to guidance on how to build stronger nonprofit board leadership to gain a competitive edge. LEVERAGING GOOD WILL defines the roadmap for success." - Suzanne Sutter, President, Things Remembered, Inc. and
Chair of the Board, Make-a-Wish Foundation of America

"LEVERAGING GOOD WILL is the most balanced and authoritative analysis of the real keys to success for any nonprofit organization's engagement of the business community. Korngold's book is creative and stimulating and will put many on the path to instant success." - Nicholas E. Calio, Senior Vice President, Citigroup Global Government Affairs, and Former Assistant to Presidents George H.W. Bush and George W. Bush for Legislative Affairs

"Alice Korngold has a phenomenal depth and breadth of understanding and expertise regarding the nonprofit sector, recognizing the increased complexities and skill sets necessary to run a successful non profit venture. She is a visionary with her feet firmly planted in the mud." - Patricia Nobili, Executive Director, Achievement Centers for Children

"Finally, a book that illuminates the intersection between for-profits and nonprofits... a must-read for those in business, foundations, and nonprofits who want to develop the next generation of leaders." - Sheila Wellington, Clinical Professor of Management, Stern/NYU School of Business, and Former President, Catalys

"At once a deeply expressive and altogether engrossing read, Leveraging Good Will seems to cut through all the unnecessary jargon and get right to the point." Review of "Leveraging Good Will," 12/2/05 in onPhilanthropy

© Alice Korngold 2005