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Our November newsletter features the Best of BoardWalk's downloadable articles, our latest BoardChampion, three new assignments, three new executive appointments, four new search profiles and the newest plank on the BoardWalk.
November 29, 2006
The Best of BoardWalk:
Our most popular articles Since the beginning of BoardWalk, we have tried to
follow the axiom espoused by a foundation head we
hold in high regard: "No one should leave
empty-handed." To that end, we openly share the
tools and resources we have discovered or developed
in our work with clients, and we try to highlight at
least one such resource in each issue of smorgasBoard.
The statistics from our website suggest that many of
you find these offerings useful. Over the past six
months, our readers and website visitors have
downloaded more than 18,000 articles and
documents from our
website. And the pace is quickening: In
November alone, our busiest month to date, our
visitors downloaded over 5500 such documents
These numbers do not include those who took
advantage of some 125 links on our site to other
nonprofit organizations and resources elsewhere online.
Such numbers would consitute rounding errors for,
say, an online retailer, but we like to think
they show a gratifying--and growing--interest in
nonprofit governance and leadership.
Here are links to the five most popular downloads from our website over the past 30 days. In case you missed one previously, click the highlighted text to be taken to the document itself:
The following articles and templates round out the
list of top ten documents from among the 18,000+ that
have been downloaded since June 1st. Note that about
half the overall total were downloads of Leadership
Profiles relating to our executive search
assignments; these are not included in the tally below:
To help keep our articles useful, we invite you to
alert us to ideas you would like to see addressed in
a future issue of smorgasBoard. Simply hit your
"Reply" button to suggest a topic.
BoardChampion of the Month:
Bill Cohen, Center for the Visually Impaired At Thanksgiving time, it seems especially
appropriate to honor a board member who serves his
cause with no expectation of recognition or even
thanks, someone who is always there and yet always a
bit below the radar.
Bill Cohen, a trustee of the Center for the
Visually Impaired, is just such a board member,
and we are pleased to name him our BoardChampion of
the Month.
New assignments:
 In a wonderful testament to the power of community engagement, Time Warner has asked BoardWalk Consulting to consult with subsidiary and regional executives the company has identified as prospects for board service with compelling nonprofit organizations.
In a joint venture with our friends at BoardSource,
the initial project will provide board training and
board matching services for 15 executives in the
Southeast. Please watch this space, as well as our
website, as further details of this exciting
initiative are published in the first quarter of
2007.  In our third assignment this year, the Presbyterian Church (USA) has retained BoardWalk to search for a senior executive to head the newly combined functions of communications and resource development. Reporting to the Executive Director of the national church, the Deputy Executive Director for Communications and Funds Development will have strategic and operational responsibility for key components of this major denomination's response to a rapidly changing environment. Click the highlighted text to see the full Leadership Profile for this new engagement.  At a time of extraordinary sacrifice by members of our armed forces and their families, BoardWalk is pleased to have been invited to lead a board enrichment project for the USO, a congressionally chartered nonprofit offering "a touch of home" to the military through a worldwide network of over 130 centers. Service members and their families visit USO centers almost 6 million times each year. Although now in its sixth decade, the organization has a mission that remains as vital as ever: Support the morale of service members and serve as the link between them, their families and the American people. New search profiles:
Since our last newsletter, several clients have approved
Leadership Profiles for three other executive searches
launched within the past few weeks:
 United Way of Metropolitan Atlanta Search Mandate: President Status: Prospects being developed; inquiries welcomed. (view Leadership Profile)  Theater of the Stars Search Mandate: Director of Development Status: Prospects being developed; inquiries welcomed. (view Leadership Profile)  Families First Search Mandate: Vice President for Resource Development Status: Prospects being developed; inquiries welcomed. (view Leadership Profile)) 
New placement:
Tracey Russell, Executive Director Atlanta Track Club The Atlanta
Track Club has selected Tracey Russell to
succeed Julia Emmons as executive director of the
country's largest track club outside New York
City's. The ATC is famous throughout the world for
hosting the Peachtree Road Race, at 55,000 runners
the world's largest 10k race.
Tracey Russell is a certified star in the
world of running, having been selected last year as
Road Race Director of the Year by Road Race
Management, the industry's leading organization.
Tracey is currently Director of Events for the
Metropolitan Richmond (VA) Sports Backers.
BoardWalk is pleased to have advised the ATC board
and search committee throughout the recruitment process.
New placement:
Michael Beachler, Executive Director Obici Healthcare Foundation Michael Beachler, a nationally prominent figure in
rural healthcare access and delivery, has been named
the first Executive Director of Obici Healthcare
Foundation, a newly funded health legacy foundation
based in Suffolk, Virginia. BoardWalk had the
privilege of advising the Foundation board
throughout the search process.
A native of Pittsburgh, Michael has directed the
Rural Health Policy Center, headquartered at Penn
State's College of Medicine. In this capacity, he
was national program director for the Robert Wood
Johnson Foundation's Southern Rural Access Program,
an effort to improve access to basic healthcare in
underserved areas within eight southern states.
Obici Healthcare Foundation was newly endowed
earlier this year upon the merger of Obici Health
System with Sentara Healthcare. The Foundation
intends to give attention to the unmet health needs
of the indigent and uninsured in its service area
and to support programs there with the primary
purpose of preventing, reducing and treating illness
and disease.
New placement:
Missy Dugan, Vice President, Development & Marketing Boys & Girls Clubs of Metro Atlanta The Boys & Girls
Clubs of Metro Atlanta has appointed Missy
Dugan
as its new Director of Development. BoardWalk is
pleased to have represented B&GCMA throughout the
search.
Hardly anticipating what an impact it would have on
her,
Missy took a job at The Boys & Girls Clubs of
Columbus & Phenix City in the 1990s. She
immediately fell in love with the mission and the
culture of the organization. Since then, she has
continuously worked for and championed Boys & Girls
Clubs activities in many capacities.
Missy joins BGCMA from the Boys & Girls Clubs of the
Virginia Peninsula, based in Newport News, VA. Prior
to
her position in Virginia, she managed Capital &
Endowment Campaigns for Boys & Girls Clubs across
the US as a consultant with Diversified Nonprofit
Services.
Ongoing assignments:
 Harvest Foundation, Martinsville, VA Search mandate: Executive Director Status: Client has met the full slate of endorsed candidates; decision pending. (view Leadership Profile) 
Habitat for Humanity International, Atlanta & Americus, GA Search Mandate: Vice President of Organizational Learning Status: Formal offer extended & accepted; announcement pending. (view Leadership Profile) Presbyterian Church (USA) , Louisville, KY Search Mandate: Deputy Executive Director for Mission Status: Client is interviewing candidates or is scheduled to do so. view Leadership Profile)  Genocide Intervention Network, Washington, DC Search Mandate: Chief Operating Officer Status: Prospects being developed; inquiries welcomed. (view Leadership Profile) 
On the BoardWalk...
In recognition of our continued strong growth (80%
this year alone), we are pleased to announce
Michelle Bufkin as a major addition to our team.
As BoardWalk’s Director of Operations, Michelle
brings more than 15 years of financial, human
resource and management experience to the firm. For
the past 11 years or so, she served in a similar
capacity for the Atlanta office of Porter Novelli, a
national public relations firm that experienced a
ten-fold increase in Atlanta revenues during
Michelle's tenure there.
To capitalize on her experience with rapidly
expanding professional service firms, we have asked
Michelle to manage BoardWalk’s operations
infrastructure, in which capacity she will develop
and manage the systems that support our client's
needs and our firm’s vision.
Please click on the pictures below to learn more
about the consultants at BoardWalk.
E-mail: sam@boardwalkconsulting.com
Telephone: 404-BoardWalk (404-262-7392) On the Web: http://www.BoardWalkConsulting.com |
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