BVU The Center for Nonprofit Excellence

BVU staff conducts assessment meetings with over 350 nonprofits each year to understand their specific needs for board members, training, and skilled and direct service volunteers. Through these meetings, BVU identifies new ways to strengthen the capacity of the participating nonprofits. Following the needs assessment, nonprofits have access to board members, skilled and direct service volunteers, and BVU's Nonprofit Consulting Center through which BVU provides targeted and customized services to strengthen the capacity of over 180 nonprofits each year. BVU has a Resource Center to help nonprofits with governance and operational processes.

Through the Volunteer Center, BVU refers over 15,000 volunteers each year to volunteer opportunities with over 300 nonprofits. In addition, BVU staff works with nonprofits to develop one day volunteer projects to engage teams of volunteers in short-term volunteerism. BVU staff coordinate and engage over 160 teams in volunteer projects per year.

BVU interviews, trains, and thoughtfully matches business professionals as board members to nonprofit organizations, as well as interviews and engages business professionals, retirees and community people as skilled volunteers to assist nonprofits with specific short-term projects. BVU matches nearly 150 board members each year, trains over 400 board members each year, and engages skilled volunteers at 150 nonprofits each year.

Nonprofit Support