I’m a private wealth manager who sits on the board of my business school and is an active fundraiser with my college. As such, I know firsthand just what a struggle it is for nonprofits to find truly engaged board members. I’ve been familiar with BoardAssist for several years now. I’ve seen them help numerous nonprofits who needed help growing their boards in a smart way and have personally sent them many candidates for board service, knowing that BoardAssist would offer them hundreds of boards from which to choose. In fact, they just placed a referral of mine on two boards last week! They had been working with her for months, waiting patiently to find those boards that would be a perfect fit for her. BoardAssist is very focused on crafting long term fits. They listen carefully to what both their nonprofit clients and board candidates want and then work hard to find that perfect fit. I can’t recommend them enough.
As an active volunteer with many nonprofits in my community, I know just how hard it can be for a nonprofit to build a team of truly engaged board members. That’s where BoardAssist comes in. As a nonprofit themselves, they really understand the needs of the nonprofits they serve. They listen carefully to what their clients need and want and find amazing board members for them. With 93% of their placements serving as leaders within 12 months of being placed, BoardAssist is providing a critical service to the nonprofit community. Their professionalism and responsiveness make them a pleasure to work with.
I am a hedge fund manager who has served on a few non-profit boards. BoardAssist kept me apprised of boards that might interest me for about two years before I found a perfect match in an arts non-profit that really appealed to my passion for jazz music. I've worked with the organization for years now and we've helped the organization reach thousands of kids. BoardAssist also helped us find additional board members.
BoardAssist has placed me on three different nonprofit boards over the years so I am very familiar with the experience of being one of their board candidates. BoardAssist offered me hundreds of different board choices with nonprofits serving locally, nationally and internationally. I was amazed at the range of options they had. They did the work of pulling out what would be expected of me both financially and in terms of my time. While I wanted to be generous with my checkbook, I didn’t want to join a board where I just wrote checks. BoardAssist works hard to make sure that doesn’t happen. They also really focused on where I would be a good cultural fit with the rest of the board. It's hard to imagine anyone else really investing the time to know me and my board interests the way BoardAssist did. I’m very grateful to them. Fantastic organization!!!
I’m a financial services professional who came to BoardAssist for helping picking a board where I could really engage. I liked that their mission was to identify intellectual capital for the nonprofit and not just money. I plan to be a generous board member but wanted to give my time as well as my financial resources. BoardAssist found me something terrific, and right near where I live. They spent a lot of time really getting to know me: where I lived, where I worked, what my interests were, even what time of day what best for me to attend board meetings. BoardAssist is extremely focused on making fits that work long term and they believe for that to happen the board matching process needs to be a very thoughtful one. Nonprofits don’t want to add someone to their team who won't show up or really engage. BoardAssist makes sure that doesn’t happen.
I’m a private wealth manager who has sat on numerous boards over the years. BoardAssist helped me find the perfect board for me. I wish I had known about their services earlier in my career. They knew I was interested in an a visual arts board and culled through all the many visual arts choices here in New York to find something for me that fit my budget, interests and most importantly was made up of people I really wanted to work with. In particular, I loved that they figured out exactly what my financial commitment would be to my new board, factoring in both my personal give and what I was expected to raise from others. Nonprofits are often nervous about having this conversation in a direct way which can lead to crossed communications and disappointed feelings. BoardAssist took care of that conversation so that I understood exactly what was expected from me
Since their inception I have been sending both nonprofit board candidates and nonprofits in need of new board members to BoardAssist. They never disappoint. Instead, I’m always amazed at the thoughtful way BoardAssist gets to know both candidates and nonprofits alike. BoardAssist takes their responsibility of board matching seriously. They are highly responsive during the matching process and stay in touch after the match to ensure the fit has been a good long term one for both sides. For candidates, there really is no other place to go for the range of boards BoardAssist offers. For nonprofits, the caliber of BoardAssist’s candidates cannot be matched.
I’m an attorney who has sat on numerous boards over the course of my career. One of the biggest issues almost every board faces is board development. No one does a better job of helping nonprofits build their boards than BoardAssist. The candidates that BoardAssist is able to deliver to the nonprofit community are exceptional. Over 93% of them are serving as leaders within 12 months of being placed on a board. Where else can a nonprofit go from board members that will engage at that level and so quickly? Their average board member generates nearly $75,000 for the boards they join but BoardAssist feels strongly the intellectual capital they deliver is the real gift. I agree. While donations are very important to the life of any nonprofit, a nonprofit cannot survive without the kind of engaged board members BoardAssist finds for them.
I’ve been working with BoardAssist for over 10 years. I first came to them as a nonprofit board candidate and then used them as a board development resource for each of the 3 boards they placed me on. They were a delight to work with on both sides of the equation and provide a critical service that is not being met elsewhere. BoardAssist takes a very hands-on, personalized approach to board matching. They spend a lot of time trying to understand the needs of their nonprofit clients and just as much time learning about their candidates. They are not interested in a quick, easy match but instead in something that will last long term. With a database of over 20,000 high impact New York board candidates, their resources are unparalleled. For me, as a candidate, the job they did of listening to what I wanted and finding something that met my interests and budget, was really important to me. Thank you BoardAssist!
I am getting to know Cynthia Remec, BoardAssist's executive director, better every day, and I am continually impressed by her and BoardAssist. If you want to affect deep and lasting change on a board, there's no better group than BoardAssist to help you find the right organization for you. I recommend BoardAssist to anyone looking to solve the world's most pressing problems through their professional expertise! Run, don't walk, to www.boardassist.org, right now!