Monday, November 08, 2004

A Business Expert for Nonprofits (washingtonpost.com)

A Business Expert for Nonprofits (washingtonpost.com): "When Melissa Williams lived in San Francisco, she began volunteering with a group called Community Partners, using skills she learned at the Harvard Business School to help nonprofit organizations on a pro bono basis. When she moved to Chevy Chase in the summer of 2000, she found no such program in the Washington area. So, she started her own.
Williams, 35, now serves as executive director of Compass, www.compassdc.org, a group of volunteer consultants with master's of business administration degrees. The MBAs lend their services to local nonprofits that need help with everything from putting together a board of directors to doing market research to developing a funding strategy. The volunteers wind up spending time over the course of six to eight months with the executive directors of the groups. "

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