The Volunteer Center of United Way and United Way of Westchester and Putnam
are pleased to announce the services of the

Board Resource Team

A management assistance program designed to provide on-site assistance to nonprofit organizations by leading their boards through a process of capacity-building and nonprofit management advisement. This is a pro bono service offered to nonprofit organizations in Westchester County.

Members of The Volunteer Center’s Experienced Volunteer Executives & Professionals (EVEP), a group of volunteers with extensive business and management experience, will provide three to five on-site sessions, working with the applying organization’s executive director, board members and volunteers, as appropriate.   The initial sessions will be devoted to discussing questions which assess the organization’s capacity to achieve its mission. Further sessions will focus on specific governance, management, program, and fundraising issues of importance to the organization. 

The Board Resource Team, persons experienced in business and professions, have been guided pro bono by Resource Development Counsel, rdcfunds.org; Robert Miss, CPFR, and Gae Savino, CFRE, in preparing for this project and will continue to benefit from the guidance of Mr. Miss and Ms. Savino as they bring this program out into the field.

            To begin the application process, please download the following documents from the uwwp.org or the volunteer-center.org:

• The application for services.  Two pages.
• “A Mini-Assessment for Nonprofit Effectiveness”  (a list of ten benchmarks, which will indicate a few of the basic areas of the assessment), discussions, and recommendations to be addressed in collaboration with the Board Resource Team.

Please complete the application and send it to the above address.  If you have any questions, please contact Judy Kadish at 914-227-9306.

Thank you for your interest in the Board Resource Team. 

This pilot program has been developed as a joint effort of The Volunteer Center of United Way by Judy Kadish, Coordinator, Corporate Programs and United Way of Westchester and Putnam by Mary Ann Luna, Vice President for Community Alliances.  Please feel free to contact to address your questions.  We look forward to matching your organization with an EVEP volunteer.