Feature image: Word cloud of key terms posted on NBOA Connect in fiscal 2018. All data are for fiscal 2018 (July 1, 2017-June 20, 2018) unless otherwise noted.
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NBOA’s work in 2018 reflected three goals outlined in the 2018–2021 Strategic Plan:
- Strengthen NBOA’s community: Foster an engaged, informed and diverse membership.
- Advance the core: Continue to innovate benefits, products and services that support NBOA’s mission and strategic priorities.
- Maximize impact: Amplify NBOA’s position as the industry thought leader to expand value within and across independent schools.
Strengthen NBOA’s Community
Foster an engaged, informed and diverse membership.
- 1,393 U.S. member schools
- 97 International member schools
- 96.2% Membership retention
- 89 New U.S. member schools
- 7 Communities on NBOA Connect
- 845 New discussions on NBOA Connect
- 1,334 Attendees at the 2018 NBOA Annual Meeting
- 4,156 Registrants for live webinars
- 12,872 Downloads from the NBOA Library
- 11,800 Followers and likes on social media
- 383 Participants in online courses
Advance the core
Continue to innovate benefits, products and services that support NBOA’s mission and strategic priorities.
- 49 CPE-approved programs offered (NASBA CPE, HRCI and SHRM)
- 14 Live webinars offered
- 120 Webinars archived for members’ 24–7 access
- 109 Sessions and “goldmines” at the 2018 NBOA Annual Meeting
- 3 On-demand programs
- Interviewing and Hiring in Legal Compliance
- Managing in Legal Compliance
- Performance Management and Separations
- 5 Online courses
- Essentials of the Business Office
- Essentials of School Business for Non-Business Administrators: Budget Meets Mission
- Human Resource Compliance for Independent Schools
- Long-Range Financial Modeling
- Stewarding Donor Dollars: Financial Reporting for Contributions
- $1.72 million Member savings on national vendors through PurchasingPoint (2017 calendar year)
- 120 Exhibitors at the 2018 NBOA Annual Meeting
- 456 Positions posted on NBOA’s CareerHQ
- 243 Custom demographics reports produced for NBOA member schools
Maximize impact
Amplify NBOA’s position as the industry thought leader to expand value within and across independent schools.
- Launched partnership with the Enrollment Management Association to explore the future of financial aid (fall 2018)
- Published Culture Meets Compliance: the NBOA Guide to Assessing Human Resources at Independent Schools (fall 2018)
- 312 Member schools that completed data entry in the BIIS data-collection platform (2018 calendar year, as of Dec. 10)
- 819 Downloads of first BIIS white paper, “Key Financial Indicators of Vitality for Independent Schools” (2018 calendar year, as of Dec. 10)
- 55 Attendees of the 2018 NBOA Senior Leaders Seminar: The Composite Financial Index
- 49,572 Issues of Net Assets mailed
- 257,081 Issues of Net Assets NOW distributed via email
- 487 New articles published on NetAssets.org
- 213 Schools that participated in the 2017 Commonfund Benchmarks Study
