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BEST PRACTICES CONSULTATIONS
Introduction
NAVREF’s Best Practices Consultations (BPCs)
promote high quality operational practices among the VA-affiliated
nonprofit research and education foundations (NPCs). The BPC program
recognizes that every NAVREF member has a vested interest in the success
of every other NPC. Using peer-to-peer sharing, BPCs offer
comprehensive, constructive suggestions on NPC administration and sound
advice from experienced colleagues.
Available as a service to NAVREF members,
these consultations are conducted at the request of the executive
director or upon request by the board of directors with the concurrence
of the executive director. BPC discussions are limited to those directly
involved in the nonprofit’s management and no written reports are
prepared.
NAVREF bears all the costs of sending one
to two experienced executive directors and NAVREF Executive Director
Barbara West to spend up to two days on site. To arrange a consultation,
contact the NAVREF office (navref@navref.org). Requests for particular
consultants are accommodated when possible.
A few weeks before the consultation, the
executive director sends the consultants copies of readily available
documents such as by-laws, recent IRS Form 990s, board meeting minutes,
etc. The consultants may ask the executive director to have certain
other documents available during the site visit. The Best Practices
Checklist may suggest items that the executive director will wish to
raise during the consultation. Also, just prior to the actual visit, the
consultants hold a conference call with the executive director to
determine how they can best tailor the consultation to meet the
foundation's particular needs.
This program fosters the highest
standards of NPC management by giving executive directors an opportunity
to ask questions and to learn from others willing to share their
expertise.
Best practices consultants
Ron Flink, Executive Director
Chicago Association for Research and Education in Science (CARES),
Hines, IL
Antonio Laracuente, Executive Director
Atlanta Research and Education Foundation, Atlanta, GA
Eileen Lennon, Ph.D., Executive Director
Seattle Institute for Biomedical Research and Education, Seattle, WA
Loretta Phillips Stillings, Executive
Director
Biomedical Research Foundation, Little Rock, AR
Barbara West, Executive Director
NAVREF, Bethesda, MD
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