Alice Korngold is President & CEO of Korngold Consulting LLC www.korngoldconsulting.com based in New York City. Korngold consults to corporations, training and placing executives on nonprofit boards to facilitate leadership development as a core element of corporate social responsibility. Korngold consults to boards of directors of nonprofits and foundations to elevate organizations to higher levels of strategic and financial achievement in serving global, national, and regional communities. She is the author of “LEVERAGING GOOD WILL: Strengthening Nonprofits by Engaging Businesses” (Jossey-Bass, a Wiley Imprint, 2005). She authored “Bespoke Boards: Find the Nonprofit That Fits” in Directors & Boards, fourth quarter 2007, “Amassing Your Governance Capital” in Directors & Boards, third quarter 2007, and “Developing Visionary Leaders,” in Leader to Leader (founded as the Peter Drucker Foundation), in April 2006. Korngold guest lectures at New York University, Columbia Business School, the Tuck School at Dartmouth, and addressed faculty, alumni and students of Harvard Business School in January 2007. With support from the Carnegie Corporation and the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation, Korngold has assisted business and civic leaders around the nation in establishing innovative board training, placement, and consulting programs. Korngold was the founding President and CEO of Business Volunteers Unlimited (BVU) from 1993 to 2005. BVU is the nation’s most successful program for training and placing business professionals and executives on nonprofit boards of directors. Under Korngold’s leadership, BVU trained and placed over 1,000 business executives on over 275 nonprofit boards of directors; and coached more than half of the candidates into board leadership positions. She developed BVU’s entrepreneurial and financially self-sustaining business model, and assisted other cities in replicating the model. Korngold’s work at BVU was featured in a page one article of The Wall Street Journal, and in the New York Times and The Chronicle of Philanthropy. She received a B.A. cum laude and an M.S.Ed. from the University of Pennsylvania. Korngold has served on numerous nonprofit boards. She currently serves on the board of Row New York.
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Firm consults to global corporations to facilitate leadership development at the core of corporate social responsibility. Korngold Consulting trains and places executives on nonprofit boards of directors, integrating leadership development, philanthropy, and volunteerism for a uniquely high-impact approach for companies to improve global and regional communities.
Firm consults to global and regional nonprofit boards of directors, and foundations, to help them advance organizations for more ambitious results - strategically and financially.
My role is CEO, and I consult directly with corporate clients, foundations, and with NGO and nonprofit boards.
CEO, Business Volunteers Unlimited
Non-Profit, Consulting industryFounder and CEO, of Business Volunteers Unlimited, from 1993 - 2005.
Established this national model organization. Built a team of professionals and consultants and a methodology to train and place over 1,000 corporate executives on 275 nonprofit boards from 1993 - 2005. Coached the majority of board members placed into board leadership roles.
Built an entrepreneurial revenue-model that was financially self-sustaining based on business membership dues as well as fees for services and grants.
Developed a board consulting methodology and coached professional team. Consulted to regional and national nonprofit boards.
Raised grants from Carnegie Corporation Foundation and Charles Stewart Mott Foundation to replicate the board training and placement model in other cities nation-wide from coast to coast.
University of Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania, United States
Bachelor’s degree.
Areas of study: History
Awards: cum laude
University of Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania, United States
Master’s degree.
Areas of study: Psychological Services in Education
